RCN Sloops: HMCS Algerine, and HMCS Shearwater
Sloops HMCS Algerine (Library and Archives Canada Photo, MIKAN No. 3399834) HMCS Algerine, sloop. HMS Algerine was a Phoenix-class steel screw sloop of the Royal Navy. She was launched at Devonport in 1895, saw action in China during the Boxer Rebellion, and later served on the Pacific Station. She was stripped of her crew at … Read more