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HMCS Niobe Gun Crew and Gunnery Target
HMCS Niobe Gun Crew and Gunnery Target

The crew of one of HMCS Niobe's 6-inch guns poses proudly in front of a target, 1911.

The sign records that this crew achieved an exemplary six hits with six rounds fired in 52 seconds. Gunnery practice in Niobe, a training ship, strove to keep crews up to British standards and to prepare them for the more modern 6-inch guns of the projected Canadian fleet of cruisers. In contrast to the protective clothing of gun crews in later years, these ratings worked the guns barefoot and in light summer uniforms.

George Metcalf Archival Collection
CWM 20030174-019



Boys' Mess, HMCS Niobe
Sailors Sewing Flags, HMCS Niobe
Playing Chess Below Decks, HMCS Niobe
HMCS Niobe's Goat
HMCS Niobe Gun Crew and Gunnery Target
Cecil George Corke, Boy Sailor, HMCS Niobe
Dominion Day, Niobe Boys
At the dockside, HMCS Niobe, Halifax
"Stokers Band," HMCS Niobe
Ceremony on the Quarterdeck, HMCS Niobe
HMCS Rainbow Arriving at Esquimalt, British Columbia, 1910
HMCS Rainbow's Officers Greeting Dignitaries
HMS Shearwater and HMCS Rainbow at Esquimalt, 7 November 1910
Gun Practice aboard HMCS Rainbow
Mess Deck, HMCS Rainbow, around 1910
Walter Hose, Commander of HMCS Rainbow
HMCS Rainbow Sailors and Capstan
HMCS Rainbow "Cleared for Action"
HMCS Rainbow in Drydock, Esquimalt
Commander Walter Hose, HMCS Rainbow
Sailor Standing by HMCS Rainbow's Wheel
Sailor with Sennet Hat and Camera, HMCS Rainbow
HMS Algerine in Esquimalt, 1914
Canadian Submarine at Esquimalt