Oriole

ORIOLE, HMCS, a steel-hulled, 101-ft (30.8-m) ketch launched in Massachusetts in 1921, is the oldest commissioned and longest serving vessel in the Canadian navy. Designed by George Owen, a Massachusetts Institute of Technology professor, for a prominent Toronto businessman, Oriole was the flagship of the Royal Canadian Yacht Club in Toronto. Acquired by the Royal Canadian Navy in 1949, the vessel was sent to HMCS Cornwallis in Nova Scotia. Since 1954 the Oriole has been based at Canadian...

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