Warships of the Bay of Quinte

This is the story of six of Canada’s warships: HMCS Napanee, Belleville, Hallowell, Trentonian, Quinte (I), and Quinte (II). The histories in Warships of the Bay of Quinte provide a unique account of the small vessels that formed the backbone of the Canadian navy during the Second World War and the Cold War, detailing the accomplishments of the people who served on these hard-working ships, as well as their mistakes. This vivid chronicle of an important part of Canada’s navy draws from the records of the ships, interviews with their crews, letters, diaries, newspaper articles, community libraries, and photographs.

We learn how the HMCS Napanee spent five days in combat against twenty-four German submarines in one of Canada’s most tragic convoy battles; how the HMCS Belleville attempted to rescue a torpedoed merchant ship; and how a German submarine sank the HMCS Trentonian late in the war, killing six of its crew.