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NAC News – Edition 331 HMCS Vancouver

NAC News – Edition 331 HMCS Vancouver

Your weekly national and international naval news for the week of November 15th, 2019

Edition – 331  HMCS Vancouver (preceded by HMCS Vancouver an S-class destroyer (1917), a WW2 Flower Class corvette, and a survey ship (1965) K331 HMCS Wentworth (WW2 River Class frigate), and J331  HMCS Portage  (Algerine class minesweeper)

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  • ★   The Navy League of Canada maritime affairs programme presents MOMENTUM – Women in Security and Defence  20 Nov 2019 Shaw Centre, Ottawa (Editor – This event features some impressive and talented speakers and leaders, a great programme and forums).  Your NAC Executive Director hopes to see some of you there!
  • Vanguard ShipTech Forum   (Editor – The Westin, Ottawa, ON 25 February 2020, 7:30 – 17:00)
  • BOA Gala Dinner, NAC National Conference/AGM and BOA Commemoration – Ottawa 30 April – 3 May 2020:  Details coming soon!
  • Vanguard Launches First-Ever Canadian Submarine Event  (Editor – The next big RCN procurement challenge!  The Deep Blue 2020 Forum, a one-day event, will take place on 29 October 2020, details to follow)

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SIGNIFICANT RCN DATES – NOVEMBER

(Month by month building a comprehensive list of significant RCN/Maritime events – if you see any glaring omissions or errors please inform me, and any more modern significant dates are welcomed.  The list draws primarily from the Directory of History and Heritage’s comprehensive “Significant Dates in Canadian Military History”, the “Canada Channel”, and “Legion Magazine”)

  • 1 November 1914  Battle at Coronel A brass plaque at St. Paul’s Anglican Church in Esquimalt, BC, is dedicated to the four ex-cadets of the Royal Naval College of Canada and men of Her Majesty’s Ship (HMS) Good Hope who were killed in action in 1914.  Four cadets of the first class of the Royal Navy College of Canada, were the First Canadian Navy casualties in the First World War. Midshipman Malcolm Cann, Midshipman John V.W. Hatheway, Midshipman William Archibald Palmer, and Midshipman Arthur Wiltshire Silver, died when the British warship HMS Good Hope went down with no survivors, sunk by the German navy.
  • 1 November 1920  Three British ships, Aurora, Patriot and Patrician are officially commissioned into the Royal Canadian Navy at Portsmouth.
  • 5 November 1962  A fire heavily damages the prototype hydrofoil BRAS D’OR under construction in Quebec.
  • 8 November 1910  HMCS Rainbow arrives in Esquimalt for the first time.
  • 8 November 1942  The first German agent is landed from a U-boat off New Carlisle, Quebec and is promptly arrested by the police.
  • 9 November 1910  His Majesty’s Dockyard, Esquimalt, is transferred to Canadian ownership and forms the basis for Pacific Command
  • 9 November 1940  HMCS Collingwood, the first corvette built in Canada for the RCN, is commissioned.
  • 13 November 1942  Captain (RN) Frederick Thornton Peters born in Charlottetown and raised in Vernon and Victoria was awarded the VC for his actions 13 Nov 1943.  Captain Peters was in the suicide charge” by two little cutters at Oran.  The “Walney” and “Hartland” were two ex-American coastguard cutters which were lost in a gallant attempt to force the boom defences in the harbour of Oran during the landings on the North African coast.  Captain Peters led his force through the boom in the face of point-blank fire from shore batteries, destroyer, and a cruiser – a feat which was described as one of the great episodes of naval history. The “Walney” reached the jetty disabled and ablaze, she and went down with her colours flying. Blinded in one eye, Captain Peters was the only survivor of the seventeen men on the bridge of the “Walney”.  He was taken prisoner but was later released when Oran was captured.  On being liberated from the gaol, he was carried through the streets where the citizens hailed him with flowers.  He earned the Distinguished Service Order (George V), London Gazette 30 March 1915, Distinguished Service Cross (George V), London Gazette 8 March 1918 and Bar – London Gazette 11 July 1940.  British War Medal, Victory Medal, 1939-45 Star, Africa Star with Bar (North Africa 1942-43) 1939-45 Medal, Distinguished Service Cross (USA).
  • 16 November 1857   PO1 William Hall, ‘Captain of the Foretop,’ of that HMS Shannon, were recommended by the late Captain Peel for the Victoria Cross, for their gallant conduct at a 24-Pounder Gun, brought up to the angle of the Shah Nujjiff, at Lucknow, on the 16th of November, 1857.  William Hall was the first Nova Scotian, the first Naval VC earned by a Canadian citizen, and the first Black person to receive the Victoria Cross.
  • 20 November 1943  HMCS Snowberry, Calgary and Nene sink U-536 in the North Atlantic.
  • 20 November 1957  HMCS Labrador, an Arctic patrol vessel, is paid off and later transferred to the Department of Transport.
  • 24 November 1944 HMCS Shawinigan  While on independent anti-submarine patrol in the Cabot Strait, she was torpedoed and sunk by U1228. All hands were lost, 91 perished.
  • 29 November 1957  HMCS Kenora and Kentville, two paid off minesweepers, are transferred to the Turkish navy as Bandirma and Bartin.