A model of HMCS Sackville as a research vessel.

This video describes how the Canadian Flower Class corvette HMCS Sackville was converted to a loop layer late in WW2, and a research vessel in the 1960s. Photographs were used to construct a model of the ship ias a research vessel, at a scale of 1:72. The ship is depicted conducting a seismic refraction experiment.

[@PiperStart]

That Revell kit keeps popping up in lots of guises. It is a great looking model.

[@MrNSrocks]

Great photos, great story. Thanks John!

[@courtneybob57]

bravissimo!

[@abrahamdozer6273]

I remember her tied up at Jetty 5 in the 1970s when she was a research vessel ... painted in two colours: "Battleship Gray" (not the Canadian Navy standard one) and Dark Blue. We knew what she was but someone had taken her teeth away.

[@doctorshawzy6477]

thanks ..hard to get colours right in a model

[@doctorshawzy6477]

interesting...