pennant
Report a Mistake- Object Number 19760322-001
- Event 1939-1945 Second World War
- Affiliation --
- Artist / Maker / Manufacturer --
- Date Made --
- Place of Use Continent - North America, Country - Canada
- Category Communication artifacts
- Sub-category Documentary artifact
- Department Dress and Insignia
- Museum CWM
- Inscription U-190; SOUVENIR H.M.C. SUB:U-190
- Materials Mammal wool
- Service Component German Navy
- Unit U-190
- Person / Institution Associated party, Hirschmann, OberLeutant Werner
- Measurements Length 15.1 cm, Width 57.9 cm
- Caption U-190 Pennant
- Additional Information Following the German surrender, U-190 entered service with the Royal Canadian Navy, a role commemorated by this pennant. Marked "HMC Sub U-190," for "His Majesty's Canadian Submarine," the pennant graphically marked the new ownership of the surrendered submarine, with a bulldog seizing a Nazi eagle by the neck. The navy took U-190 on a tour of eastern Canadian ports before putting it to use for training. In October 1947, the navy sank U-190 as a target during Operation Scuttled, a live-fire naval exercise off Halifax.