Pics from the Bonnie (Canada's last carrier)

[Dakota435]

Some snapshots taken by a work chum (his name is Otto Dietrich on the outside chance any old navy vets from the Bonnie are reading) during his days on HMCS Bonneventure in '67 and '68. A/C are Grumman Trackers. The other carrier seen in one of the pics is HMS Eagle, at the Firth of Forth.

[EvanL]

NIce pics mate. Cheers

[Deuterium]

A Tracker in flight for reference.

[Northernwarrior]

You know, this is sad but, I never knew we had any carriers. I'll have to read more about them.
I guess it'll be a long time before we get any more.
Thanks for the post!

[rhino]

nice photos, some have almost digital quality to them, what happened after they got decomisioned?

[FlightSergeantRose]

Seeing them just depresses me.

[Johnny_H]

DUDE!

Those are incredible shots, yeah we had two the Bonaventure and the Magnificent, the Bonnie was the last and scraped in the 60's ( rumors have it that some other country actually put it into service under thier name and flag ), but its a incredible ship.

Thanks man for posting this, my father can still remember driving over the Macdonald bridge as a child and seeing that ship docked at CFB Halifax, again man I am very suprised to see this thread about something that hits so close to home.

Cheers

[EvanL]

I thought they were scrapped late 70's...

[Johnny_H]

Might of been my memory is shakey at best, I can only remember what Im told by my father.

So of course I could be wrong.

[toad]

scrapped in 1971 in taiwan
http://www.fleetairarmarchive.net/Ships/Shipyards/Scrapyards.html

[Kingswat]

DUDE!

Those are incredible shots, yeah we had two the Bonaventure and the Magnificent, the Bonnie was the last and scraped in the 60's ( rumors have it that some other country actually put it into service under thier name and flag ), but its a incredible ship.

Thanks man for posting this, my father can still remember driving over the Macdonald bridge as a child and seeing that ship docked at CFB Halifax, again man I am very suprised to see this thread about something that hits so close to home.

Cheers

we actually had 3, there was also the HMCS Warrior.

[toad]

Magnificent

[toad]

Warrior

[Kingswat]

HMCS Warrior

[Johnny_H]

Nice pic dude, I didnt know about the warrior