{"id":92411,"date":"2025-03-06T02:00:39","date_gmt":"2025-03-06T07:00:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/?p=92411"},"modified":"2025-03-05T09:43:00","modified_gmt":"2025-03-05T14:43:00","slug":"hmcs-bonaventure-the-pride-of-canadas-fleet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/2025\/03\/06\/hmcs-bonaventure-the-pride-of-canadas-fleet\/","title":{"rendered":"<em>HMCS Bonaventure<\/em> &#8211; The Pride of Canada&#8217;s Fleet"},"content":{"rendered":"<p align=\"center\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"854\" height=\"480\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/DJxl1Tmoi4o?si=RnaSEoDccL_0T0Nx\" title=\"YouTube video player\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><strong>Skynea History<\/strong><br \/>\nPublished 22 Oct 2024<\/p>\n<p>For today&#8217;s video, we&#8217;ll be looking at the last of Canada&#8217;s aircraft carriers. Not typically a navy you associate with that kind of ship, but the Canadians actually operated three during the Cold War.<\/p>\n<p>The third, <em>HMCS Bonaventure<\/em>, is an interesting one. A small ship, that operated aircraft at the very edge of her capability. And routinely baffled American pilots in the process.<\/p>\n<p>Yet, she was also a ship that came to an end before her time. Decommissioned and scrapped, right after an expensive (and extensive) mid-life overhaul. In what is generally seen as a bad political move, more than anything to do with her capabilities.<br \/>\n<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Further Reading:<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/redirect?event=video_description&#038;redir_token=QUFFLUhqbmFaSjJFUXJqeHFzTU9kRUF6RWZxdlRuMk9GUXxBQ3Jtc0trY3kyYWVQNk9UNGY1bnUtV3lfNmlxVUZaVEFkRUJRYVJSSmtETS0xaTVDMGFMaDZMckVlelFEV0lBZkFkd2I3MVZtT0gzUnhaRW1GVUozdmZzMWp2bkowTlNXRnNvMXI3d0Zpazdva0RkYl94bE8tbw&#038;q=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.amazon.com%2FBonnie-Bonaventure-J-Allan-Snowie%2Fdp%2F0919783406%2F&#038;v=DJxl1Tmoi4o\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Bonnie-Bonaven&#8230;<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/redirect?event=video_description&#038;redir_token=QUFFLUhqbU00cjZ6cFU4bzVQdXQ3UzlDamVzMFE0d0gyUXxBQ3Jtc0tuODh3N0E2UDBrRWtGZUFqcEhycTkwbXpmQWR4Z1ZodVlScEdIQUFtOGNfQ3NmR0Q5LVFZVmROT21ldzh4RmNiT3dFTG8xSjY3RWRKcmhibXVLSGJ6OTJ4dUFNV1hkTy0yQUh4OFFBQ3pmTWVuNWwyZw&#038;q=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.amazon.com%2FBritish-Aircraft-Carriers-Development-Histories-ebook%2Fdp%2FB00USAEM2Y%2F&#038;v=DJxl1Tmoi4o\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/British-Aircra&#8230;<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/redirect?event=video_description&#038;redir_token=QUFFLUhqa0tyRm5BMDRURDdaZlIxN3B0VnNyNFFtSWxPd3xBQ3Jtc0ttc29ETTlLZ2hwLUs3R0trc05mMFJsNzh6V0JqdlNINjVOQ0dBWDQxcmgyd2dWV01JaFVqWURvZ3FMdWlCbk0zWEZnYndOdUhLWjRrNklKNGpWZ3VmV2JIQVhuNzhySzRqZ1ZlREdNbjZFdE9Hb04zZw&#038;q=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.amazon.com%2FBritish-Carrier-Strike-Fleet-After%2Fdp%2F1591146011%2F&#038;v=DJxl1Tmoi4o\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/British-Carrie&#8230;<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/redirect?event=video_description&#038;redir_token=QUFFLUhqbW5UbFpVSkFHOXJ0TXZHSFR6bnNNX3BlblBXZ3xBQ3Jtc0ttbzR0SGY0V1pVUzJTTVRiWEc2d2JrRVZVb2ZXWGNOMGFaa05CeGlTWXE4LV9DaEl0bENkcVRmVHJVQ29Wc0MwU0prUjY4a1NvbXhHQnMycVh4cnJkdkN1blY2VG94aFp2YjBhb2ozc05rNWkta19wZw&#038;q=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.amazon.com%2FShips-Canadas-Naval-Forces-1910-2002%2Fdp%2F1551250721%2F&#038;v=DJxl1Tmoi4o\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Ships-Canadas-&#8230;<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/redirect?event=video_description&#038;redir_token=QUFFLUhqbnM3Y2txcmJhQmZqUVVaMHpBMEZtQkhNN0xXZ3xBQ3Jtc0tuU3pfaUFzelRJWmRRY2ZJbXBnd2IzUXZ1WVVtLUhjOVlwSUZRbllnQjFtVUxkWHp5c1UwRFl4eDE3NGwyM21hMnA3d1RXUGpSQ3V3QWVHNWg2ZUVUZ3BxbENrbTJPUVN5eXNYWERMbHhYUGQ3emFQWQ&#038;q=https%3A%2F%2Fdocslib.org%2Fdoc%2F3031356%2Froyal-canadian-navy-aircraft-carrier-her-majesty-s-canadian-ship-bonaventure-cvl-22-21-january-1957-3-july-1970&#038;v=DJxl1Tmoi4o\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/docslib.org\/doc\/3031356\/royal&#8230;<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Skynea History Published 22 Oct 2024 For today&#8217;s video, we&#8217;ll be looking at the last of Canada&#8217;s aircraft carriers. Not typically a navy you associate with that kind of ship, but the Canadians actually operated three during the Cold War. The third, HMCS Bonaventure, is an interesting one. A small ship, that operated aircraft at [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,6,7,5],"tags":[1063,311,448,617,108,30,745],"class_list":["post-92411","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-britain","category-cancon","category-history","category-military","tag-1950s","tag-1960s","tag-canadianforces","tag-carriers","tag-coldwar","tag-navy","tag-rcn"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2hpV6-o2v","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92411","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=92411"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92411\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":94504,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92411\/revisions\/94504"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=92411"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=92411"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=92411"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}