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title: Thanks for H.M.C.S. Regina
url: https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/canada-thanks-for-hmcs-regina-1943/
description: A photograph of the corvette H.M.C.S. Regina sits over a collage of newspaper clippings about her sinking an Italian submarine.
section: Collection
---

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**Content note:** Wartime Canadian collage reproducing newspaper headlines that use ethnic slurs for Italians ('Wops'), shown as printed. This object is shown as it was published. [Why](https://propagandaarchive.org/about/#as-it-was)

[![Thanks for H.M.C.S. Regina, 1943 Canada poster: A photograph of the corvette H.M.C.S. Regina sits over a collage of newspaper](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/images/canada-thanks-for-hmcs-regina-1943.jpg)](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/images/canada-thanks-for-hmcs-regina-1943.jpg)

# Thanks for H.M.C.S. Regina

A photograph of the corvette H.M.C.S. Regina sits over a collage of newspaper clippings about her sinking an Italian submarine, above a red banner asking 'Shall brave men die because you faltered?' The banner places the lives of the crew on the viewer's conduct (fear-appeal), and the collage shows only the success story (card-stacking).

## Propaganda techniques used in this poster

[Fear appeal](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/fear-appeal/) [Card stacking](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/card-stacking/)

## Text on the object

Original (English) · read from the image, not independently checked

```
It takes a
good ship
to sink
a sub.!

'We Cleaned Up Sub Quickly', Corvette Captain Says

Only 1 Man Wounded
As Regina Kills Sub

'DOING JOB WELL'
PRAISE TO REGINA
FOR SINKING SUB

H.M.C.S. Regina "Erases" Italian U-Boat In
To Score Canada's Third Naval Victory [cropped: illegible]

CANADIAN CORVETTE SINKS SUB, NABS CREW
Sub Blasted To Surface
Italians Yelp "Friends"
As Canucks Rain Shells
Wops Captured in Third Naval Victory Scored
[cropped: illegible] Canadian Corvette in Mediterranean in
Brief Span - "Classic Example of Sub-
marine Fighting," Says London

[partial headline at right:] [illegible]RONTO MEDIC
[illegible]MAINED MUM
[illegible]OUT SINKING

[body columns of the clippings: partly cropped, not transcribed]

Thanks for
H.M.C.S.
REGINA

This message is issued by the Department of Munitions and Supply for Canada.

SHALL BRAVE MEN DIE BECAUSE YOU FALTERED?
```

[← She Was Your Ship Too... Give Us Another Ship Like the Louisburg, Says Lt. Robert Jarvis R.C.N.V.R.](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/canada-she-was-your-ship-too-1943/) [The Faster You Build 'Em The Sooner We'll Be Home →](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/canada-the-faster-you-build-em-1943/)

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