HMCS Unicorn Anchor Monument

Saskatoon, Saskatchewan

Type

Autre

UNICORN’s CO at the time, Commander Tom Gordon, arranged for the anchor to be shipped from the dockyard in Esquimalt, the concrete pad was poured in 1989 and the anchor placed. The monument was consecrated by the unit Padre, Lieutenant Commander Russell in May 1990.

The plaque dedicating the monument to “the Prairie Sailor” was added for the Battle of the Atlantic in May 1990. In May 2009, the two side plaques were added in memorial to the Battle of the Atlantic.

Inscription

[plaque]
CANADIAN SHIPS
LOST DURING WWII
BATTLE OF THE ATLANTIC
1939-1945

WAR SHIPS
1940
HMCS FRASSER HMCS BARD D'OR HMCS MARGAREE
1941
HMCS OTTER HMCS WINDFLOWER HMCS LEVIS
1942
HMCS RACCOON HMCS SPIKENHARD HMCS CHARLOTTETOWN
HMCS OTTAWA
1943
HMCS LOUISBURG HMCS WEYBURN HMCS CHEDABUCTO
HMCS ST. CROIX
1944
HMCS REGINA HMCS CHEBOQUE HMCS SKEENA HMCS ALBERNI
HMCS CLAYAQUOT HMCS MAGOG HMCS SHAWINIGAN
HMCS ATHABASKAN HMCS VALLEYFIELD
1945
HMCS TRENTONIAN HMCS GUYBOROUGH HMCS ESQUIMALT

MERCHANT SHIPS
1940
ERIC BOYE MAGOG WATERLOO
THOROLD KENORDOC SAINT MALO TREVISA
1941
MAPLECOURT A.D. HUFF J.B. WHITE
1942
MONTOROLITE VICOLITE VINELAND LADY DRAKE
OAKTON BIC ISLAND ROSE CASTLE D. STEWART
R.W. POMEROY LADY HAWKINS F.B. BARID
LIVERPOOL PACKET LORD STRATHCONA
1943
NO SHIPS LOST
1944
WATUKA ALBERT C. FIELD CORNWALLIS
1945
TABER PARK AVONDALE PARK

[plaque]
DEDICATED TO
THE SASKATCHEWAN SAILOR
IN THE ANNIVERSARY OF
THE BATTLE OF THE ATLANTIC
6 MAY 1990

[plaque]
HMS/HMCS UNICORN
BATTLE HONOURS

ARMADA 1588
CADIZ 1596
PORTO FARINA 1655
SANTA CRUZ 1657
LOWESTOFT 1665
ORFORDNESS 1666
SOLE BAY 1672
SCHOONEVELD 1673
TEXEL 1673
VESTALE 1761
TRIBUNE 1796
BASQUE ROADS 1809
SALERNO 1943
OKINAWA 1945

HMCS UNICORN MOTTO
UNICUS EST
(THE ONLY ONE OF ITS KIND)

HMCS UNICORN
ESTABLISHED 27 APRIL 1923