Thank God we still have a Navy!

[Michael Dorosh]

Couldn‘t resist the subject line; I heard it from my ex-RCN uncle a lot (he also called me Pongo).

Just saw the commissioning of HMCS Victoria on the news. They said that Victoria was the only Canadian capital not to have a ship named after it. I thought Edmonton also fit into that category - during WW II there already was an HMCS Edmunston so it was decided Edmonton sounded too familiar.

Did they name a ship Edmonton in the last few decades, finally?

Could I be any more off topic?

 

[Mud Crawler]

Yeah if you can call a dozen of frigate a navy!At lest the few we got are the best.*Cough*Not like the bri*cough*broken subs*cough*

 

[NavyGrunt]

There is an HMCS Edmonton on the West Coast Mike. Its an MCDV.

 

[Michael Dorosh]

There is an HMCS Edmonton on the West Coast Mike. Its an MCDV.

You always read posts from 4 years ago? ;D

thanks!

 

[painswessex]

Yeah if you can call a dozen of frigate a navy!At lest the few we got are the best.*Cough*Not like the bri*cough*broken subs*cough*

We have an awesome navy sure the ships might be old but the crews are the best trained around, As for the subs, you let your car sit for 10 years then go and try to start it and see what happens. The crew of HMCS Victoria, a few are good friends, say that in thier career on the subs this far surpass the "o boats". The sub crews are so well trained that when they were coming to victoria via the panama canel, they had the ottawa escorting and exersizing with it and the sonar op's could not hear the sub witch "killed" ottawa a couple of times until the sonar guys figured out what to listen for. There is numerous times that our crews have poped up in the middle of a USN battle grioup and sunk the carrier and tanker. When we are over in the gulf, we proceded to do over 50 per cent of the total number of collalition boardings. Other contries come to esquimalt to learn how we train our boarding party so well. so dont sit there and talk  smack about the navy that i love.

LEADING SEAMAN
M.W. HART
HMCS WINNIPEG

 

[jmacleod]

For a detailed perspective on Canada's submarine operations, and problems, go to the 10 October
2004 edition of the Toronto Star, by a thirty three year veteran of the Royal Canadian Navy (RCN)
who commanded the submarine flotillia for some years.

In my family's house, the Navy will always be the Royal Canadian Navy. My mother's family,
noted for the number of ship's captains (Book: The William's: A Family of Ships Captains, Dalhousie
University, Halifax NS). Captain Patrick Williams established a residence in Nova Scotia in 1819 -
came from Ireland. They served in the Merchant Service and the RCNVR during World War II.
My father was a Marine Engineer, went to sea for much of his life - agreed, thank God we have
a Navy.   MacLeod