"Canada's Only Warship Loss in World War One
Ask the average Canadian citizen or sailor how many warships our navy lost in World War One, and a puzzled look will be the likely response. Few are aware that HMCS Galiano, a patrol vessel, was indeed lost only days prior to the end of the Great War and that thirty-nine officers and men, all members of the Royal Naval Canadian Volunteer Reserve (RNCVR), lost their lives.
HMCS Galiano was built by the Dublin Dockyard Company in Dublin, Ireland in 1913 for the Canadian government, to be used primarily in the fisheries protection service, arriving in Esquimalt, BC to assume her duties on February 27, 1914. She was the sister ship of HMCS Malasyina.
Galiano was a steel, single screw vessel with a length of 160 feet, beam of 26 1/2 feet, and a draught of 12 1/2 feet, displacing some 700 tons. She was electrically lighted throughout and fitted with a powerful searchlight…"
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