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NAC News – Edition 575

NAC News – Edition 575

Your weekly national and international naval news for the week of July 26th, 2024

Edition: 575  Nanisivik Naval Facility “As the country with the longest coastline in the world, Canada needs a new fleet of submarines – and today, we’ve announced that we will move forward with this acquisition.  This new fleet will enable Canada to protect its sovereignty in a changing world, and make valuable, high-end contributions to the security of our partners and NATO Allies.  We look forward to delivering this new fleet to the Royal Canadian Navy.”  The Honourable Bill Blair, Minister of National Defence, 10 July 2024

Rod Hughes: Editor NAC News rhughes@shaw.ca  (Comments welcome to help improve this service.)  Links to keep in touch with the NAC and RCN can be found at the bottom of this email.  Contact Kevin Goheen executivedirector-nac@outlook.com if you wish someone to be added to the NAC News email distribution. (Influencer or good candidates to become a NAC member, and note the first year’s NAC/Branch membership dues are waived)

NOTICES

NEW 23-26 September Oceans Conference & Exposition 2024 Halifax Convention Centre, The OCEANS 2024 Halifax conference is for global maritime professionals to learn, innovate and lead in the protection and utilization of the world’s largest natural resource – our OCEANS.

30 Oct/1 Nov 2024  Seaspan announced their upcoming National Shipbuilding Strategy Industry Day, in partnership with the Association of British Columbia Marine Industries (ABCMI).  It will be held at the Vancouver Convention Centre.  More details to come for those who Register.

14 November 2024  Super Early Bird Registration is open for the Vanguard Deep Blue Forum 2024 to be held at The National Arts Centre, 1 Elgin Street, Ottawa.  If you’re not able to attend in person, all speaker sessions will be live streamed, to permit virtual attendance.

25 February 2025 ShipTech Forum 2025  The National Arts Centre, Ottawa ON

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THIS WEEK’S SIGNIFICANT ARTICLES

Trudeau urged to spend more on military by premiers

Burton: Canada’s new top soldier needs to protect our Arctic from China

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CANADA

Korean War Veterans Day Act (Editor – 27 July each year.  See note in “This Week in RCN/Maritime History”)

Royal Canadian Navy Extends Naval Experience Program

National Honours Announced

A quick look at a United States Navy P-8A Poseidon maritime patrol aircraft from VP-9 Golden Eagles (Editor – 4:28 min video)

USS Carney visits Québec, Highlights Maritime Security and Partnerships (Editor – a Red Sea star attends a grand event)

Crew Swap between HMCS Vancouver and USS William P. Lawrence (Editor – CAF RIMPAC 2024, 57 sec video)

CANADIAN ARMED FORCES: Cut to the BONE! (Editor – Esprit de Corps 6:19 min commentary) on the other hand Canada, NATO and the vociferous protests of American senators  (Editor – per capita comparison.  A bit dated but play with the tables; Canadians are ahead of Russian!  Remember “”statistics can say anything you want them to”.  Enjoy J)

CFB Esquimalt ship takes on water, stops in Hawaii for repairs

A quick look at the CC-295 Kingfisher search and rescue aircraft of the Royal Canadian Air Force (Editor – 4:54 min video)

Conduct and culture change (Editor – one stop shopping at CAF site)

Sage60: Sage magazine’s new partner publication

Lookout: 22 July 2024 Volume 69, Issue N0. 29 (Editor – note NAC Merritt Chisholm (name misspelt) sword being awarded pg 10.  The sword was donated years ago by NAC life Member Merritt Chisholm and the associated plaque/stand has been updated recently to reflect the RCN’s current focus.  The award goes to “the Naval Warfare Officer on Phase 4 who exemplifies Esprit de Corps and Perseverance”.  NAC gives the recipient a book as a keepsake as well)

Trident: 22 July 2024 Volume 58, Issue 15  (editor – too many good articles to single one out)

NAC Naval Affairs Programme Bibliographies Canada’s Naval Requirements  (Editor – Please share with anyone you think may benefit from the knowledge, after all, that’s what our naval affairs programme is all about – enlightening Canadians)

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USA & AMERICA

USNI News Fleet and Marine Tracker: July 22, 2024

Everybody Fights: A Conversation with SMMC Carlos A. Ruiz (Editor – lots of lessons in a 39:56 min video)

Pentagon Arctic Strategy Aims to Enhance U.S. Presence, Exercise More Often

USS Ronald Reagan, USS George Washington Begin Carrier Hull Swap in San Diego

Coast Guard Offloads More Than $96 Million in Illegal Narcotics Interdicted in the Caribbean Sea

Report to Congress on Virginia-class Submarine Program, AUKUS

Report to Congress on Navy TAGOS-25 Ocean Surveillance Shipbuilding Program

Scary Technique US Forces Use to Capture Illegal Ships in Middle of Ocean (Editor – 16:18 min video)

Ecuador’s navy ready to combat illegal fishing around the Galapagos Islands

Florida County May Consider Buying and Sinking SS United States

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INDO-PACIFIC

Indonesian Navy submarine missing in Bali Sea (Editor – truncated Janes subscriber only article, but the gist is there)

Second Thomas Shoal: deal or no deal?

Taiwan island launches military exercise in ‘futile attempt to resist reunification’

INS Brahmaputra severely damaged in fire, lying on its side; sailor missing

Iran’s IRGC Flexes Long-Range Capability with Converted Boxship

Royal Australian Navy Destroyer Fires Naval Strike Missile on Former U.S. Amphib During RIMPAC 2024 and Dutch warship Zr.Ms. Tromp sinks US vessel in RIMPAC Naval Exercise.

AUKUS Navy Chiefs first trilateral visit to HMAS Stirling (Editor – 10:33 min video)

First indigenous Frigate INS Triput launched by Goa Shipyard Ltd

New Japanese Maritime Self-Defence Force [Commander]

Japanese and Taiwanese coast guards hold first joint drill

South Korea holds keel-laying ceremony for second Jangbogo-III Batch-II submarine.

Albanese Government boosting ADF capability and safeguarding Australians with accelerated littoral fleet build

Vietnamese frigate Tran Hung Dao arrives in Vladivostok for diplomatic visit.

Alkath Group, MSubs partner on maritime autonomous capabilities

Dark Fleet Caper Exposes Growing Risks in Crowded Malacca Strait and Supertanker Detained in Malaysia After Fleeing Scene of Collision Near Singapore with Salvage Team Surveys Fire-Damaged Hafnia Product Tanker

Crew Member Dies in Fire Aboard Maersk Frankfurt Off India and Indian Coast Guard Continues to Battle Cargo Fire on Maersk Frankfurt (Editor – I wonder what was burning and why…always interesting in these container fires)

Oil Spill Threatens Philippines Capital After Tanker Capsizes

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EUROPE

Ukraine:

Ukraine Claims Strike on Kerch Strait’s Strategic Rail Ferry

Explosives-Packed Jet Ski Drone Appears Off Turkish Coast

NATO funnels weapons into Black Sea, threatening Russia — Kremlin Aide Patrushev and Ukraine has no access to Sea of Azov, its strategy detached from reality — official

A History Of Crimea In Five Minutes (Editor – a 4:53 min video…from 10 years ago)

Conflict in Ukraine’s Donbas Region: The Geology Behind the Headlines (Editor – not a maritime article but a different perspective presented in an 18:28 mi video)

Sanctions Effective in Stopping Russia’s Arctic LNG 2, Says U.S. Official

General:

Britain reconfirms plans to increase defence spending (Editor – 2.5% of GDP)

British carrier HMS Queen Elizabeth back at sea and General Atomics proposes its Gambit UCAV concept for Royal Navy’s aircraft carriers

New frigate to be launched in Scotland next month

Chinese Navy Ships Sail Into ‘NATO Lake’ then Chinese warship arrives in St. Petersburg for Russian naval celebrations but nearby Main naval parade in Kronstadt canceled

After India Cancels Shipbuilding Order, Turkey Suspends Defense Exports

Lockheed Martin inks deals for SPY-7 radar manufacturing

OSI to Deliver Integrated Bridge System to Portuguese Navy

Nuclear submarine Kazan returns to Zaozyorsk after two-month mission.

UK to replenish LMM missile stocks after huge donations to Ukraine

Germany to expand submarine Fleet with additional class 212CD orders says Defense Minister Pistorius.

Dutch court upholds France submarine deal in billion-euro contract dispute.

Indian Naval Ship Tabar arrives in Hamburg, Germany

Royal Navy’s Project Vahana completed

German submarine sets sail on long voyage to her final destination – by road (Editor – entertaining videos included!)

Russia Loads Fourth Sanctioned Sovcomflot Tanker in Snub to West

Kremlin Says Russian Arctic Cooperation with China is Not Aimed Against Anyone

UK Ship Insurer Sees Problems Paying Claims Involving Sanctioned Russian Provider

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MIDDLE EAST

Red Sea:

July 23 U.S. Central Command Update

Houthi Threat to Red Sea Shipping is Growing, UN Envoy to Yemen Says

Houthis Lose a Blowfish (USV)| MV Pumba Dodges the Houthi in the Red Sea (Editor – 18:04 min video analysis)

Russian Pacific Fleet ships Varyag & Marshal Shaposhnikov enter Red Sea after Suez Canal passage.

Russian Commodities Aren’t Safe from Houthi Attacks in Red Sea

Shipping’s Carbon Emissions Soar as Houthi Attacks Fuel Longer Voyages

General:

Iranian Navy Raises Capsized Frigate Sahand from the Water

Yemen’s Hodeidah Port Resumes Operations After Israeli Strike

What did the US military’s Gaza aid pier actually accomplish?

Iran Seizes Togo-Flagged Products Tanker in Persian Gulf

Indonesia Prepares To Deploy Hospital Ships Again For Gaza

German Navy chief visits Israel to discuss underwater drone technologies.

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GLOBAL INTERESTS

Oxygen discovery defies knowledge of the deep ocean

Israel continues armament deliveries to Senegal amid conflict with Hamas.

Fullbore Friday (Editor – introduces wonderful vintage 11:24 min video footage)

Shackleton’s wrecked Endurance to get extra protection

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SCUTTLEBUTT

CIMSEC: Sea Control 539: Normandy – the sailors’ story and D-day with Nick Hewitt (Editor – useful perspective in a 32:18 min podcast)

Frederick ‘Johnnie’ Walker – The U-Boat Purge Continues (Part 3 – July to December 1943) (Editor –

HMS Barham – A survivor’s story. (Editor – a personal narrative in a 3:33 min video related to last week’s video of Barham  sinking)

“Preussen”. The first five-masted, full-rigged sailing ship ever built. (Editor – 8:21 min video)

Lifesavers: How Conflict Innovation Can Build a Better World (Editor –  48 min podcast)

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THIS WEEK IN RCN/MARITIME HISTORY

27 July 1953   The Korean Armistice is signed, ending three years of war.  The war is technically still ongoing today.  The first Canadian military response was made by the RCN less than two weeks after the outbreak of hostilities when three destroyers, HMCS Cayuga, Athabaskan, and Sioux set sail for the Far East.  They arrived in the theatre of operations later that summer, ready to take part in the battle for the Pusan bridgehead in Korea. Five other tribal class destroyers, HMCS Crusader, Huron, Iroquois, Nootka, and Haida, served with the “Canadian Destroyer Division, Far East” as part of the United Nations (UN) fleet halfway around the world in the waters off Korea during the war.  On 8 June 2010, the Senate of Canada unanimously adopted a motion to acknowledge and endorse July 27 in each and every year as National Korean War Veterans Day.

27 July   Korean War Veteran’s Day

29 July 1948  HMCS Royal Roads is transformed into a Canadian Service College, Royal Roads and begins training flight cadets, as well as naval cadets.

29 July 1972  HMCS Iroquois, the first of the DDH 280 class destroyers, is commissioned.

31 July 1940  HMCS Prince Robert, after conversion from a merchant vessel, is commissioned as an armed merchant cruiser.

31 July 1942  HMCS Skeena commanded by A/LCdr Kenneth L. Dyer, RCN with HMCS Wetaskiwin commanded by LCdr Guy S. Windeyer, RCN sank U-588 in the North Atlantic.

31 July 1942  A RCAF Hudson while on patrol 113 Squadron sank U-754 off Nova Scotia.

31 July 1942  The Women’s Royal Canadian Naval Service (WRCNS, and popularly referred to as “Wrens” after their WRNS colleagues) is authorized, achieving a WW2 peak of 5,893 and while the service existed 6,783 women in total serving in the WRCNS.  1000 served overseas and 11 died on active service from sickness or accidents.  “Wrens” served in 39 trades, including administrative and clerical work, signalling, coding, and wireless telegraphy.  HMCS Conestoga, formerly Bytown II, was established for the basic training establishment for the WRCNS.  This was a volunteer service composed of women and was separate from the Volunteer Reserve.  HMCS Conestoga was in the former Grandview School for Girls, a detention centre for ‘wayward’ girls in Galt, ON.  That past quickly became a running joke, but the facility, with existing residences, teaching space, an administration building, and cafeteria, was perfectly suited to its new purpose, and the Wrens quickly made it their home.  Basic training at Conestoga lasted three weeks, after which the women would move on to specialist training at other facilities.

1 August 1959  The RCN was presented with Queens Colours by Her Royal Highness Queen Elizabeth II in Halifax.

2 August  A Hampton from RCAF Squadron 415 while on patrol sank U-706 in the North Atlantic.

SIGNIFICANT RCN DATES – If you see any omissions or errors please inform me, and any more modern significant dates are also welcomed.  The list draws primarily from the Directory of History and Heritage’s comprehensive “Significant Dates in Canadian Military History”, the now defunct “Canada Channel”, “Legion Magazine”, The Naval Service of Canada, Its Official History Vol 1-3, NAC member Roger Litwiller’s excellent web site, encyclopedic guidance from NAC member Fraser McKee, the Uboat.net site, and anywhere else I can find credible information.  For the merchant ship history, a special thanks to NAC member Bill Dziadyk for his able assistance and detailed work.  The RCN lost 1,965 men and 24 ships during the War, most of them in the Atlantic.  A comprehensive list of the staggering merchant losses – sunk, damaged, or lost – Canadian Merchant Ship Losses of the Second World War, 1939-1945 by Rob Fisher {Revised June 2001}, and for the loss of individual personnel RCN Ship Histories, Convoy Escort Movements, Casualty Lists 1939-1947)

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