The Crow's Nest and Crowsnest collection

Crow's Nest, June 1943

The Crow's Nest and Crowsnest collection

News or Magazine of the Royal Canadian Navy

The Crow's Nest : This was a "newsprint edition" founded in July 1942 as "The Crow's Nest : News of Canada's Navy" and published every month by HMCS Cornwallis "by kind permission of Captain J.C.I. Edwards, RCN" - we have many of them, but not a complete run. Please see our "Crow's Nest Newsprint" catalogue here. The illustration shows the June 1943 masthead celebrating the Crow's Nest's first year of publication.

The Crowsnest : The Royal Canadian Navy's Magazine_ : The "magazine edition", starting with Vol. 1, no. 1 of November 1948 with V-Adm. H.T.W. Grant as Editor-in-chief. We have a "scattered" collection of 128 individual issues of these, catalogued up to 1965. Please see our "Crowsnest magazine edition" catalogue here.

Crowsnest : We have some "paper copies", for availability please see our "Crowsnest print/electronic" catalogue. The electronic version starting with Vol. 1, No. 1 Summer 2007, is available on line, courtesy of the Royal Canadian Navy:

2007	Vol 1, Issue 1	Vol 1, Issue 2	Vol 1, Issue 3
2008	Vol 2, Issue 1	Vol 2, Issue 2	Vol 2, Issue 3	Vol 2, Issue 4
2009	Vol 3, Issue 1	Vol 3, Issue 2	Vol 3, Issue 3	Vol 3, Issue 4
2010	Vol 4, Issue 1	Vol 4, Issue 2	Vol 4, Issue 3	Vol 4, Issue 4
2011	Vol 5, Issue 1	Vol 5, Issue 2	Vol 5, Issue 3	Vol 5, Issue 4
2012	Vol 6, Issue 1	Vol 6, Issue 2	Vol 6, Issue 3	Vol 6, Issue 4
2013	Vol 7, Issue 1	Vol 7, Issue 2	Vol 7, Issue 3
2014	Vol 8, Issue 1	Vol 8, Issue 2
2015	Vol 9, Issue 1	Vol 9, Issue 2
2016	Vol 10, Issue 1	Vol 10, Issue 2	Vol 10, Issue 3	Vol 10, Issue 4
2017	Vol 11, Issue 1	Vol 11, Issue 2	Vol 11, Issue 3

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