“WARSHIP WEDNESDAY…ON WordPress.com, FEB., 05, 2020@09:28-OUR WARSHIP WEDNESDAY, OF TODAY…INCLUDES H.M.C.SHIPS/HIS MAJESTY’S CANADIAN SHIPS PRINCE HENRY-AN ARMED MERCHANT CRUISER AND A FLOWER CLASS CORVETTE…H.M.C.S. LINDSAY K 338, WHICH SERVED ON THE HIGH SEAS, ETC., DURING W.W.II/1939-1945!!!”
“NOTE: BRAVO ZULU AND THANK YOU WARSHIPS’ COMPLEMENTS OF H.M.C.SHIPS PRINCE HENRY AND LINDSAY…FOR OUR ALLIED WORLDS FREEDOMS/1945-2020!!!”
battleoftheatlantic19391945/WordPress.com, Brian MURZA, Killick Vison, W.W.II NAVAL RESEARCHER-PUBLISHED AUTHOR, from COWARDICE CANADA/1993 TO 2020!!!”
“CREDIT: The Cruise People Limited.”
Before the war, HMCS Prince Henry had been the Clarke Steamship Company’s 6,893-ton cruise ship t.s.s. North Star (above), cruising from Montreal, New York and Miami. After conversion from an armed merchant cruiser, she recommissioned as a Landing Ship (Infantry) at Vancouver on January 6, 1944, and stopped in Bermuda en route to the Clyde to pick up school children returning to Britain. Her commanding officer wartime, Capt Val Godfrey RCN, had featured in the film “Commandos Strike at Dawn,” released by Columbia Pictures in January 1943.
On arrival, the Prince Henry (above) underwent final modifications at John Brown & Company at Clydebank and prepared to take part in the D-Day landings at Normandy. She proceeded to Southampton, where on June 2 at Berth 37 she embarked the 528th Flotilla landing craft, and 227 of the Canadian Scottish Regiment of Victoria, plus 99 other troops before going to anchor in the…
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