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CITIZEN SAILORS: HMCS SACKVILLE.

CITIZEN SAILORS: HMCS SACKVILLE.

Surely not another preserved WW2 warship?  We’ve got plenty in the U.K. already (yawn!). Maybe, but from hundreds built as sturdy dependable escort craft, the Sackville is the only Flower-class corvette left in the world. She’s in Halifax, Nova Scotia as Canada’s Naval Memorial, a WW2 combat veteran and latterly a museum ship open to the public. And the top of the gangway has a mural of Disney’s sailor-suited Donald Duck, broom in his…

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