Сorvette Sackville in the Battle of the Atlantic | Naval Legends

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A documentary about a World War II Canadian corvette.
In Canadian Halifax, you can find a small ship harbored next to the Maritime Museum of the Atlantic. This is corvette Sackville, the history of which is integral to the history of the Canadian Navy during World War II.
We've made a special documentary video highlighting the truly heroic history of this ship. It involves whale boats, German submarines, Irish beer, "wolf packs," and even Winston Churchill himself.
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[@WorldofWarshipsOfficialChannel]

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[@julianjames2899]

Another neat fact about the HMCS Sackville is she was featured in the movie Greyhound as the canadian ship "Dickie"

[@RenagadesSW3]

That's Hella to know cool great movie too

[@MadScotsman05]

Could watch greyhound on repeat for ages, the film “midway” is a really good film aswell

[@MichaelWilliams-mo1vv]

​@MadScotsman05 I agree and think it's a great movie. Was hoping it would come to sky or netflix had to buy the DVD in the end. There were a couple of gaffs in the movie though. I've studied a bit about the battle of the atlantic. U boats would never taunt the escorts with radio messages, for one thing they had a healthy respect for the escort ships and not least they would be giving their position away. Another thing is they would not just surface and fight gun battles with warships. They would risk being damaged and unable to dive. Surfacing under attack was very much a last resort.

[@ShopeeMarketteam]

Hehe dickie sackville

[@jamesmclellan3261]

The Sackville! What a welcome surprise! It saddens me deeply that we have very few RCN museum ships in Canada. The Haida, Sackville, and a couple post-ww2 submarines are all that really come to mind. I really wish we had the foresight to preserve more of these important ships from our history. We do still have the beautiful sailing ketch HMCS Oriole in active service within the RCN. She celebrated her 100th birthday last year and still provides traditional sail training to our sailors. I suppose she is more of a living part of our naval history.

[@Stubbee]

HMCS Sackville is also a movie star. The ship was laser-scanned so it could be added (with a new name HMCS Dodge aka Dicky) via CGI to the movie Greyhound with Tom Hanks. Hank's ship used USS Kidd as the stand in.

[@Mrdadeoo]

I thought it would be a small role,,but instead it was a supporting role...thank you TOM HANKS

[@snifferdawg3607]

I just saw that movie which was really good. That's so cool

[@ValentineHolbert]

The Flower class is one of my most favorite ship classes of WW2. For me, they were the little ships that played the most important part in the war. Not big roles like striking the enemy with aircraft, or dueling warships with firepower or torpedoes. But small but equally significant roles like escorting the equally essential and brave merchant ships that carried the supplies needed for the Allies to win. The corvettes served in many places, from the British Isles to the East Coast of America, from Cape Town to Murmansk, as well as the Mediterranean. They also served in many navies, basically almost all of the Allied navies had a Flower class corvette. Including the USN, which gave them energetic names like USS Haste, ironic for a 16 knot ship. The Germans themselves had a few captured French Flower class. The Flower class even ended up in many other navies post war. To the brave sailors of the Flower class corvettes, the Merchant Marine, and the Allies navies that braved the elements and the enemy to do their duty, may we never forget.

[@BrownieTheCat_]

I'm so glad the the Canadian navy is finally getting some attention, keep up the amazing work!

[@marcgoyan4933]

My dad is in those pictures....sooo proud of him. After the war he lost his right arm above the elbow....still worked as a carpenter until 1987

[@peterjohnson617]

What a brave and determined man he must have been. You must be proud to be his son......I worked 53 years as a carpenter with two arms I often found it hard. respect to you Dad peace,pj

[@TheNavySub]

A great video and I am fortunate enough to have been the Deck Officer in her while I was posted to Halifax as the Deck Officer of HMCS MARGARET BROOKE. It was a great honour to help play a small part in her preservation and bring awareness of Canada's role in The Battle of the Atlantic.

[@jackrabbit5047]

Love those old gents. Wouldn't it be grand to spend an evening with these guys at a pub?

[@Zenigotcha]

Thank you for finally covering the HMCS Sackville. She along with Flower-Class Corvettes with their courageous crews were heroes for defending merchant convoys and defeating German U-Boats during the Battle of the Atlantic. The bravery and achievements of these crews will never be forgotten.

[@chillywilly883]

Toured her many times, lived in Halifax for 30 years. Can’t imagine the balls required to ride that tiny ship into the Atlantic and combat.

[@danpos1971]

I agree. I have also been on that ship many times over the years. I can only imagine how it would have been tossed around crossing the Atlantic!

[@dennisfox8673]

The Flowers have long been one of my favorite ship classes. In all-out war everyone cuts corners, but this is a great example of cutting the right corners while keeping the essentials. They brought an ASDIC (later sonar) set and just enough weaponry to where it was needed in large numbers much sooner than other options. Over time their systems and weapons improved and they were able to be updated reasonably well, until they were superseded by later types like the Rivers, The Captain class DEs, and especially the Loch class frigates. It is very nice to see them and their crews getting this well earned documentary.

[@Ranger215able]

“Give em hell, Dicky!!!”

[@readerj01]

Thanks so much for posting this video. My Dad was a PO Stoker on K71 HMS Pimpernel from its first commissioning in Jan 1941 until September 1942. Looking at the convoy history of his boat he spent most of his time on Atlantic convoy duty flitting between Liverpool and Halifax. My Dad passed away in '94 but he would have given his eye teeth to have looked over the Sackville. He never really spoke much about the war but as he got older he reminisced more about the end of the war (and the year or so after) when it was clear he held these little vessels in very high regard. Sadly he was drafted as temporary crew placement on these little vessels after the war ended taking them on their last voyages to be scrapped. Such a shame that there is only one left but long may it be cared for as they played such an important role in protecting our vital supply lines. Thanks once again for posting.

[@unknownuser8228]

"Greyhound, Dicky. I'm launching depth charges now."

[@lepastresgentil9467]

Canada having the like third (or fifth i can't remeber largest navy) of the world in 1944 by mostly having this kind of ship shows how much they had, quite insane.

[@gryph01]

Corvettes and River Class Frigates were the top two ships by numbers.

[@M5YUILL]

24:31 more than 1000 of different types

[@pinder262]

At the end of ww2 canada had the third largest fleet And these days...... i dont even want to talk about my countries fleet nowadays

[@vothbetilia4862]

@@pinder262 ah yes because we need a massive navy now. Have some common sense bud. We're not at war.

[@pinder262]

@@vothbetilia4862 i dont argue your point bud, however our fleet isnt rven getting new ships to replace our very outdated ships, our subs are in permanent drydock and our only military supply vessel is as useful as a unicorn

[@officialboomtish214]

Stories of the RCN in the Second World War, along with stories from ships such as Sackville and Haida make me proud to be a Canadian. Godspeed RCN!

[@NinjaRelic1]

Thank you so much for giving this wonderful ship the recognition she deserves, not many people even here in Nova Scotia know that this ship exists, let alone the role she played in the war. I always hoped she would find her way into your crew's list of ships to cover, and it was wonderful seeing a proper mini-doc made about her.

[@thehandofdeath2106]

Sackville starred as Dicky in Greyhound folks, movie star right here.

[@tomcatmjr]

Thank you WG for highlighting one of many contributions Canada made to the war effort however small it may seem. The souls that served on this ship and many like her is testament to their bravery against such odds. They do us Canadians proud of our history and heritage. "Lest we forget"

[@jayelm5392]

Having served on a DE I know that omnipresent seasick feeling. You get over it the hard way. I’ll never forget those first few trips out in the North Atlantic. Those corvette guys must have suffered horribly. However, they got the job done. They accomplished the mission. Fair winds and following seas Corvette sailors!

[@clam502]

In 2004 during Hurricane Juan, she was moored to her slip as always and I'm sure the RCN and the Museum of the Atlantic had to have taken precautionary measures to hold her in place. A retired dentist (Hearing about the in coming hurricane) got permission to dock his yacht next to the Sackville. He too took precautions to tie up his boat well. The next morning after the hurricane had passed, the yacht had sunk. The Sackville, even in her retirement can still sink boats. She broke her lines and smashed the wooden yacht, sinking it to the bottom of the harbor. Moral of the story, DO NOT TIE UP YOUR HAND MADE WOODEN YACHT NEXT TO A STEEL BEAST BUILT SPECIFICALLY FOR WAR AND TO SINK BOATS! Because as we all know ropes can snap.

[@abrahamdozer6273]

I was in the Canadian navy in the 1970s and we used to tie up near Sackville when she was a research ship. Most of what you see on her decks was gone but she was still recognizably a Corvette and we knew what she was, Canada isn't very good at preserving her military history but we "accidentally: preserved a Corvette. Along with Haida (destroyer in Hamilton) there is only one other Canadian WWII ship still afloat, as weird as it is. Aristotle Onassis' private yacht Christina O started out as HMCS Stormont, a River Class Frigate built by Canadian Vickers in Montreal. You can still book her.

[@GrooveHillStudio]

I live in Saint John where HMCS Sackville was built! I have seen this ship in Halifax as well! Thank you for the video! :)

[@kingernorth]

Great to see the history of HMCS Sackville. There was more information in the video then I was aware of for this ship, and I'm Canadian! I live near where the HMCS Haida is located and I've been on that ship many times.

[@craggleshenanigans]

A surprise upload, but a welcome one

[@SylvainFluet]

Thank you WG, really proud as a Canadian . So few hold the line during those darks days of WW2

[@DocEcho]

Thank-you so much for this video honouring the men, contribution and achievement of the Royal Canadian Navy. Canada had the fourth largest navy at the end of WW II. Battle of the Atlantic was the longest running battle of the the war and Canadians fought it from the St. Lawrence to Great Britain. Britain would have not survived and D-Day would not have been possible if not for the Canadian seaman both reserves and merchant. The Battle of the Atlantic was a pivotal struggle that was won, with massive help from Canada-from its navy, its airmen, its merchant marine and from its civilian population. Almost 2,000 members of the Royal Canadian Navy, 1,600 Canadian merchant seamen and 752 Canadian airman paid the ultimate sacrifice. As a side note, the HMCS Sackville was also featured in the movie Greyhound. Thank-you again to WoW for recognizing Canada and her sacrifice.

[@tomaskonopasek769]

its nice to have a look there

[@Aluminati1]

My dads dad was a stoker on HMCS Huron and each section of this video was like he was telling me one of his war stories. Almost identical. Growing up he always said that the Merchant Marine and crews of the corvettes "had the biggest balls in the Atlantic." He always spoke very very highly of both, nothing but respect.

[@bradbellows354]

I went on this ship back in 2014 when visiting Halifax. It was smaller than the Haida, but had just as big a heart.

[@johnheigis83]

Medals, of honor, to every single Merchant Seaman, of WWII. Outstanding. Thank you Canada, for serving to protect my freedom, in the States, too. Semper Fidelis...!...

[@QurikyBark32919]

Naval legends is BACK!!!

[@Karandar]

I really appreciate the Naval Legends video's. The time spent and information in them is extremely well done. Being Canadian, This was a great addition. We may not have had any of the legendary Steel monsters of the big navies, but were critically important in preventing the fall of Britain. Amazing people who rose to the fight for freedom, our grandparents. *** Perhaps the game could add a new line of destroyers more anti submarine focused to honor the sub hunters of the war. New weapons ASW weapons like the squid launchers / hedghogs, more effective sonar arrays that ASW ships had etc ...

[@officialboomtish214]

I was actually thinking that some ships, such as Haida, can have upgraded “B” hills that, in the case of Haida for example, can have Squid launchers that do double the damage of normal depth charges.

[@Karandar]

@@officialboomtish214 Haida refit was a very capable asw ship

[@officialboomtish214]

@@Karandar actually now that I think of it, a lien of Canadian commonwealth ships for ASW would make sense.

[@Aluminati1]

​@@officialboomtish214 I'd say their role could be a mix of ASW and gunboats, the Battle of Ushant for example, going on what I've heard from my grandfather growing up. He served on HMCS Huron until 1946.

[@officialboomtish214]

@@Aluminati1 sounds about right. Haida and Huron are good gun boats. I bet St. Laurent and Restigouche would make for interesting top tier ships. Especially Restigouche, which has the gimmick of having both the Limbo automatic ASW mortar system AND the ASROC rocket-launched guided torpedos. THAT would be one helluva tier 10.

[@jmfa57]

My dad was in the US army before WWII, and was supposed to be discharged in January 1942 (you can paint the rest of THAT picture all by yourself.) He remarked that he trained with wooden guns in the artillery, and tanks were simulated by trucks carrying signs saying "TANK." Dad sailed for England in the spring of 1942, when the U boats were living their best life. He was originally to have sailed on the Normandie, but after it was sabotaged in the harbor, he ended up on a smaller troop ship. He said his convoy no sooner turned the corner out of the harbor before the corvettes started depth charging U boats. Some ships were lost, and his suffered a frightening near-miss that caused everyone to have to don their life preservers and line up next to the ladders. All he could think about was that cold, cold water in the North Atlantic. He said he didn't know who he felt sorrier for, the German sailors in their iron coffins, or the poor sailors on the tiny Corvettes, tossing about in the waves, and no doubt having their own eardrums tested by the depth charges they were dispensing. Corvette sailors must surely have been a very special breed.

[@ecco4000]

Thank you WG for making this amazing documentary. As a Canadian I have always been proud of our navy, doing there bit to help help make the world safer. I have visited HMCS Sackville and the Maritime Museum when ever I visit Halifax. I would love to see Halifax as a Port in game along with a Flower class corvette in Port.

[@RicktheGoose]

I wonder if the HMCS Sackville would ever be added to World of Warships?

[@o0_VanYsH_0o]

If they ever did a Commonwealth line, MAYBE as a Tier I. If not, probably a Cameo as a Convoy ship for any Canadian coast Map.

[@M5YUILL]

Painted a yacht grey and put some depth charges and a gun on. I love being Canadian.

[@gryph01]

I remember reading about a Yacht being converted to a patrol vessel for the RN. One day, the captain made contact and went to full speed to drop depth charges. He couldn't out run the concussion and took out his stern. Hos comment to a nearby ship..."I think I broke myself" I wonder if we had similar stories in the RCN?

[@M5YUILL]

@@gryph01 probably I bet

[@paul-we2gf]

It's interesting that Canada has the only surviving Flower class corvette HMCS Sackville K 181 and only surviving Tribal class DD HMCS Haida DD 215 in the world. Bravo Zulu RCN.

[@kristoffermangila]

The last Flower... 'bout time!

[@chuckkline2970]

One of my favorite books is "The cruel sea" and the follow up book "3 corvettes". I have always wanted to see what one looked like. THANK YOU!

[@anthonygraham2956]

I toured HMCS Sackville last summer, she is in Halifax Nova Scotia

[@Andre-ix5om]

We need more naval legends

[@gabriellareid3883]

A great ship to cover with a Naval Legends video!

[@pinder262]

If we could get this as a premium ship id be so happy, i love the flower class corvettes and HMCS Sackville

[@annetteshoniker3132]

My Dad served on HMCS Baddeck and I just had his ships crest out yesterday. It has the five aces with two ace of clubs on both ends. The five aces were painted on the ships funnel Ace of Clubs, Ace of Diamonds, Ace of Spades, Ace of Hearts and again the Ace of Clubs. Saw the Haida when I was a kid and loved it. Retired now so I might head east to see the Sackville hope to tour it with my two boys to show them what Grandpa served in.

[@spergicide97]

Love these naval legends videos! My favorite ones on the channel.

[@Autobotmech]

Thats my little boat in my home port ^^

[@tonnywildweasel8138]

Thank you very much for this video, appreciate it a LOT 👍 Salute from the Netherlands 🇳🇱, TW.

[@MrZero12132]

These documentaries are insanely good can’t believe it’s for a game

[@twixboi1182]

I’m from Halifax I’ve been on sackville 4 times

[@legoseller4496]

Great video and great testimonies.

[@gregwarren5382]

Makes me even more proud to be a Canadian

[@tomhowe1510]

You should be. I'm proud to live next door of yous

[@akesvensson3778]

Very nice video! Goot work! Thx!

[@broadsidedarth7801]

Another great naval legends video. Amazing CGI work from WG as always.

[@hellhoundactual8201]

As a Native Haligonian, I'm so happy to see my City and Sackville recognized by Wargaming

[@sargentriley5091]

I hear ya! Love to see our port on one of these videos

[@ranz5561]

"you've just sacked an enemy submarine"

[@trevortaylor5501]

Thinking of you grandpa. Canadian merchant marine.

[@NoName-sb9tp]

Man, how long has we gone without a new episode of naval legend?

[@sam_the_dachsund_47_85]

Thank you WG, I am going to visit Halifax next month and was planning to visit this ship and now I know that I am visiting a ship that also participated in one of my fav movies Greyhound

[@Uslunet]

Again excelent video

[@johnt8636]

She's not "corvette Sackville. "She is, His Majesty's Canadian Ship, Sackville.

[@haggis525]

Yes! Also, it is the RCN... Royal Canadian Navy. There's even someone in the comments saying that they "served in the Canadian Navy"! Sure, cupcake! No veteran of the RCN that I know omits the R from RCN.

[@daveharrison8845]

@@haggis525that’s because from 69-72 to 2011-2012 ish it was known as the Canadian Navy because they tried to unify all three branches together under one command I believe.

[@cliffthelightning]

Chevrolet Corvette Sackville actually

[@ISAFMobius18]

God I could watch these CGI battles all day everyday. Beautiful job

[@lunnyZver]

Thanks for an interesting video.

[@aussiescotsman4145]

hope you do one on the hmas perth one day. It's sinking is one of the most spectacular yet relatively unknown stories of ww2 along with the uss houston

[@bobbradley8308]

My uncle served on the alberni he was lucky to survive her sinking off the coast

[@ianmurray4081]

Awesome video. I have visited HMCS Sackville. Cheers 🍻 ⚓️🇨🇦🫡🇬🇧⚓️

[@RicktheGoose]

I'm still waiting for HMCS Sackville to be placed in World of Warships.

[@camaro84z28x1]

Like others here, I have been on that ship and it is awesome to see a video about her history! Great job Wargaming!!

[@Delta2196]

Been on this ship and have done fire sentry for it. It's amazing how she still holds and she is open for tours I'm downtown Halifax

[@christopherhanton6611]

A VERY GOOD VIDEO ONE OF THERE BEST YET IN LONG TIME. Also, always like the stories of WW2 vets

[@Dene181]

Nice video. 👌

[@danieltsimbler343]

I've been on that ship many times and how long I've wanted you guys to make a video about it

[@HabitsOftheWolf]

Thanks WG, very well done, and always nice to see people recognize the Canadian efforts.

[@Commander_Koyke]

The movie "Greyhound" featured Sackville her nickname "Dicky".

[@MaxwellAerialPhotography]

I thought the Canadian Flower in that movie was the fictional HMCS Dodge.

[@NFvidoJagg2]

Was just watching the one on Haida, and think ok, now we need one on Sackville. oh, look HMCS Sackville!

[@CA_Watchman]

Always a great job WG, I started playing a month after launch. Years later, from Canada.

[@hotshot902]

I have a hand written account from my grandfather where he confirms that he did indeed do escorts with telephone polls as guns, and oil barrels as depth charges. Specifically one account along the American eastern seaboard where they lit the oil on fire to use as a smoke screen to get away. On a side note, he was Captain of the Sackville near the end of the war.

[@HughbertJassGaming]

Thanks WG, great video :) Will we be seing corvette's in game?

[@M5YUILL]

Doubt other than sun hunting they don’t have any use in game. Maybe as AI in an operation. Or a uniqueness event/operation only ship

[@suryia6706]

WG please say yes. An OP sub hunter would be great addition

[@tjoonatv2848]

Just look at tier 1. Black Swan is classified as a sloop, but her role is more similar to Sackville.

[@M5YUILL]

@@tjoonatv2848 true but a T1 premium…

[@sir_dagger1128]

@@tjoonatv2848 but black swan actually has capable fire power, Sackville does not

[@garysofko]

There was an excellent biography of the RCN called "Corvette Navy" I believe the authour was James Lamb. Very good read full of personal interviews and amusing and terrifying anecdotes.

[@paul-we2gf]

I knew the former captain Of HMCS MOOSE JAW. Bravo Zulu Mr. Grubb

[@stulynn2005]

Good video of the men and history of the Canadian navy’s corvette. 16knots ?

[@Blackcloud_Garage]

“85 Officers and MEN”. There, I fixed it for you.

[@dirk3510]

So ein schöner Bericht. Traurig, aber dennoch interessant. Danke schön

[@borscope]

Need this as a Tier 1 premium! I've got one of these built in 1/72 and would love to sail it in-game.

[@Therailwayenthusiast4real]

They should restore sackville to her 1942 condition

[@05Hogsrule]

Respect to my brothers from the GREAT WHITE NORTH!!!!!

[@AbsolutePicks]

Was on this ship earlier today.

[@andytomyn6665]

one of the best books I've about corvette living is saints devils and ordinary seaman

[@jp-um2fr]

I have heard and read that my country England stood alone during WW2. What a load of cobblers.

[@Squeesher]

I don't even really play the game anymore, but these mini-docs are still solid, and hey it's about a Canadian ship and contribution to the Battle of the Atlantic. I would always watch :)

[@anger9984]

thanks Canada for your service, sorry the commonwealth has been nerfed this much and living is hard.

[@Streicher17]

5:30 nice graphic of Sackville as comissioned. But she didn´t have a pompom and the big minesweeping winch ist missing. The staff thought, they could double up as minesweepers... The corvettes were the best sea boats the allied built, until the Rivers were built, and the only ships with a turning circle smaller than the u-boat. They did a yeoman job in the battle!

[@allisonmoore5712]

Most people don't even realise that the economy is collapsing and there is an increasing rate of unemployment worldwide 🌍 so take advantage and prepare while things are still on the shelf in the store.

[@cultureshock5000]

i wanna see these smaller ships in wow i would love to see the tourville class frigate....

[@shamr0x]

Hey I work there

[@klipsfilmsmelbourne]

sackville appeared as a background model theodore tugboat

[@snifferdawg3607]

Ya know all of those depth charges and hedgehog rounds being fired must have felt like a carpet bombing for those getmans

[@kaiserwilhelmshatner3156]

More maple syrup ships!

[@terraformers9033]

Great small documentary one glaring error! Towards the very end it states that 100,000 out of the 11 million Canadian population served in the Canadian Navy "almost 1/10th of the Canadian population". 11,000,000/100,000 =0.009 so actually just under 100th (a hundredth or one in a hundred) of the Canadian population.

[@abrahamdozer6273]

They conflated two ideas. Out of Canada's population of 11 million, 1.1 million served in her armed forces ... ten percent of the population served in uniform (almost all volunteers, too which is unheard of among her allies)

[@stevewixom9311]

A tough ship served by tough men. Riding one of them in a North Atlantic storm must have been trying to ride a cork.

[@abrahamdozer6273]

The old navy saying about Corvettes is that "they rolled in a heavy dew".