# 915 - Ships on Coins - Part 10

I am very fond of ships on coins.

I know that many people share this fondness. I have a few coins depicting ships.

So, I will post a series called "Ships on Coins" and I will show all the coins that I have on this theme.

There will be no order of presentation or country of issue. As the coins are stored in several places, I will simply search on each place and publish those that I found.

The tenth is a 2010 CAD $1 "100th Anniversary of Royal Canadian Navy".

It weights 25.175g with 92.5% silver purity and Proof finish, selectively Gold Plated. Its mintage was 32,342 units and it issue's price was CAD $69.95.

Founded in 1910 by the passage of the Naval Service Act, the Royal Canadian Navy served in three wars and many conflicts during the last 100 years.

It was the Second World War that really brought Royal Canadian Navy (RCN) to fruition. More than 120 corvettes were built to become the guardians of the North Atlantic escorting convoys and attacking submarines that had so threatened the fledgling navy during the First World War.

His/Her Majesty’s Canadian Ship (HMCS) Sackville was one of the original 1939-40 Flower Class corvettes ordered for the RCN. She was built at Saint John (New Brunswick) and entered service in December 1941. The corvette class, with 122 built in Canada by war’s end, had elevated the RCN to the third largest navy in the World.

HMCS Sackville gained recognition for engaging three U-boats at sea. Although she sustained heavy damage, Sackville was retained for post-war service, first as a training ship and afterwards as a research vessel for the Bedford Institute of Oceanography. In 1982, she was acquired by The Canadian Naval Memorial and reconverted to her original state in 1994. Today, as the last surviving corvette, Sackville serves as The Canadian Naval Memorial, a living museum dedicated to the courageous people who have served in Canada’s navy. She is berthed at the Sackville Landing Wharf, Lower Water Street in Halifax (Nova Scotia).

The reverse, designed by Ives Bérubé and engraved by Stan Witten, shows the HMCS Sackville.

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