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HMCS GALIANO
SHIP'S COMPANY PHOTOS
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This 1918 photograph shows HMCS Galiano's ship's company posing around their ship's main armament, a 6-pounder gun. Originally ordered as a patrol ship for the Fisheries Protection Service, the Galiano operated in British Columbia waters before being requisitioned for service with the Royal Canadian Navy in September 1917. The ship, its entire crew, and one civilian passenger were lost in a heavy storm during the early hours of 30 October 1918, less than two weeks before the end of the First World War.
Source: Canadian War Museum Credit: VR999.684.1 CFB Esquimalt Naval and Military Museum Courtesy of the CFB Esquimalt Naval and Military Museum and the Canadian War Museum
HMCS Galiano Source: George Douglas Stanley Bate and the Lost Ship, the Galiano Courtesy of Gayle Jesperson
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