Chapters in this book

1. Front Matter i
2. Contents vii
3. List of Illustrations ix
4. Abbreviations xiii
5. Preface and Acknowledgements xvii
6. Introduction xxi
7. The Royal Navy’s Legacy to the Royal Canadian Navy in the Pacific, 1880–1914 1
8. L.P. Brodeur and the Origins of the Royal Canadian Navy 13
9. Commander E.A.E. Nixon and the Royal Naval College of Canada, 1910–1922 33
10. The Road to Washington: Canada and Empire Naval Defence, 1918–1921 44
11. The Royal Canadian Navy Between the Wars, 1922–39 62
12. “Big Ship Time”: The Formative Years of Rcn Officers Serving in RN Capital Ships 74
13. An Engineer’s Outline of Rcn History: Part I 96
14. Princes Three: Canada’s Use of Armed Merchant Cruisers During World War II 116
15. The Royal Canadian Navy’s Quest for Autonomy in the North West Atlantic: 1941–43 138
16. Royal Canadian Navy Participation in the Battle of the Atlantic Crisis of 1943 158
17. Operational Intelligence and the Battle of the Atlantic: The Role of the Royal Navy’s Submarine Tracking Room 175
18. “The Most Thankless Task” Revisited: Convoys, Escorts, and Radio Intelligence in the Western Atlantic, 1941–43 187
19. The Lower Deck and the Mainguy Report of 1949 235
20. The Destroyers’ War in Korea, 1952–53 250
21. Canadian Naval Aviation, 1915–69 271
22. HMCS Labrador and the Canadian Arctic 286
23. The Impact of Public Policy on a Naval Reserve Division 308
24. An Engineer’s Outline of RCN History: Part II 317
25. The Royal Canadian Navy and the Unification Crisis 334
26. Appendix 343
27. Notes 347
28. Notes on Contributors 365