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Hello, I’d like to suggest a vehicle whose service with Canada is unknown due to its short time and little use.
History:
On the 30th of June in 1941, the 1st Canadian Army Brigade would arrive in the UK. This would occur due to the request of Lieutenant-General A.G.L. McNaughton, who had encouraged a rapid deployment of the 1st Canadian Army Tank Brigade as soon as possible. The Brigade was meant to be equipped with Canadian-built Valentine tanks, but due to delays in production, McNaughton had to send out to persuade the British War Office to lend tanks to the 1st Canadian Army Tank Brigade, until the loaned tanks could be replaced with Canadian production. Well, the majority of the equipment would be made up of Infantry Tanks, but the headquarters would be entitled to four cruiser tanks. This would lead to two of the British army’s new cruiser tank, the Covenanter, being issued to the Headquarters on July 10th, 1941. Although by December of 1941, when recalls for the model(Covenanter I) started, we remained with the Canadian tank brigade until April of 1942. In order to replace them, the 1st Canadian Tank Brigade would receive some newly built Covenanter IVs, which would be built to Covenanter III standards but with even more cooling systems. This would occur on the 29th and 30th of April 1942. They would stay in service from that day until March of 1943, with only a brief time in February of 1943, when one of them had to see the workshops for repairs. It would be the 19th of March 1943 that the Canadian army overseas would decide to be re-equipped with the Canadian-built Ram tank.
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Specs:
Mass 18 long tons (18 t)
Length 19 ft 0 in (5.79 m)
Width 8 ft 7 in (2.62 m)
Height 7 ft 4 in (2.24 m)
Crew 4 (commander, gunner, loader, driver)
Armour 7–40 mm (0.28–1.57 in)
Main armament QF 2-pounder (40 mm)
Secondary armament 7.92 mm Besa machine gun (coaxial)
Engine Meadows D.A.V flat-12 340 hp (250 kW)
Power/weight 18.6 hp (13.9 kW) / tonne
Transmission Meadows gearbox with Wilson epicyclic steering
Suspension Christie
Fuel capacity 92 imperial gallons (420 L)
Operational range 100 mi (160 km)
Maximum speed 30 mph (48 km/h)
Sources
The British Cruiser Tank, Mark V, Covenanter (A13 Mark III), in service with the Canadian Army Overseas | CSMMI MILART
Covenanter tank - Wikipedia
The A13 Mk III 'Covenanter' — Could this Be the Worst British Tank of World War Two? - MilitaryHistoryNow.com
Missing Links The Covenanter Tank in Detail Article by Peter Brown
