Starts:

Thursday March 12, 2026

    7:00 PM

Ends:

    8:00 PM

HMCS THIEPVAL: KINGSTON’S LITTLE SHIP THAT COULD
A tale of Kingston shipbuilding, Canadian naval policy, adventure on the high seas and a grim demise of the Pacific coast. HMCS Thiepval, a armed trawler built in Kingston in 1917, sailed off to a fascinating career on the high seas. She was a charter member of the fledgling Canadian Navy, initially guarding the Atlantic coast in the last year of the First World War and then serving as a patrol vessel on the Pacific coast. In the 1920s, she became the first western military vessel to visit Bolshevik Russia, landing in Vladivostok in aid of a British attempt to circle the globe by aircraft. She was eventually wrecked on a reef off Vancouver Island in 1930 and is now a favoured dive site.