NAC News – Edition 590 (Lawrenceville)
Your weekly national and international naval news for the week of November 8th, 2024
Edition: 590 CFAV 590 Lawrenceville Quotes: “There are 1.4 million km (870,000 miles) of telecommunication cables on the seafloor, covering every ocean on the planet. Laid end to end, these cables would span the diameter of the Sun, and are responsible for the transfer of 99% of all digital data. But for something so important, they are surprisingly slender – often little more than 2cm in diameter, or about the width of a hosepipe.” William Park, BBC News, 15 Oct 2024
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THIS WEEK’S SIGNIFICANT ARTICLES
Former Liberal MP warns of tough times ahead with U.S. over NATO spending target
November Speaker’s Evening – A NAC Townhall with CRCN (Editor – sign up to join the video conversation)
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CANADA
N.B. woman who lost 2 sons who served in Afghanistan named Silver Cross Mother
Veterans’ Week and Remembrance Day with Remembrance at HMCS Venture
National Indigenous Veterans Day (Editor – wonderful monument in a 2:15 min video)
‘The Irish were the first to turn up’: The sub, the fire, and the rescue effort
CDAI: Fixing Recruitment and Retention in the CAF: Leadership & Risk Tolerance (Editor – 25:59 min podcast)
B.C. ports are frozen amid a labour dispute. What does this mean for Canadians?
Large Fleet Tugs that support the Royal Canadian Navy | Go Bold S3 Ep2 (Editor – 54:01 min video)
Maritime tradition continues with Island Class keel laying ceremony
City of Windsor Welcomes HMCS Harry DeWolf
Kraken Robotics Demos New KATFISH Autonomous Launch and Recovery System to Navy Customers
NAVAL QUÉBEC and LEVIATAD consortium strengthen ties in naval defense sector (Editor – Naval Quebec)
Wargaming at HMCS Venture: Enhancing Naval Officer Training (Editor – extract from the Journal of the Peruvian Naval War College)
Are these Canada’s Most Mysterious Islands? (Editor – perspective on the high arctic, a 8:22 min video)
Veterans with Cancer (Editor – interesting group worth knowing about)
PSHCP Bulletin 49 (Editor – dental insurance changes)
Government of Canada invests in the well-being of Veterans and their families
Le gouvernement du Canada investit dans le bien-être des vétérans et vétéranes et de leur famille
Canadian Naval Review Vol. 20 No. 2
Lookout: Volume 69, Issue 37, November 4, 2024
NAC Naval Affairs Programme Bibliographies The Navy Ashore (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: Nov. 4, 2024
Gulf of Mexico Oil and Gas Producers Cut Output Ahead of Storm
SECNAV Del Toro Announces Life Extensions for 3 Cruisers and SECNAV Announces Service Life Extensions for 12 Destroyers to “Keep More Ready Players on the Field”
USS John S. McCain Returns Home from Deployment
Navy to Commission Future USS John Basilone (Editor – John Basilone portrayed in “The Pacific” series)
Leonardo to Build AN/SPQ-9B Ship Protection Radars for US Navy
CIMSEC: The Theoretical Edge: Why Junior Officers Should Study Military Classics
US jails Fat Leonard in Navy’s biggest bribery scandal
Marine Corps Blames Pilot Error for Crash of Malfunctioning F-35 in South Carolina Forest
Panama Pulls Flag on Sanctioned LNG Carriers in Crackdown on Russia’s Shadow Fleet
Port Strike 2.0: Major Shippers Pivot to West Coast Over Contract Uncertainty
Florida Cruise Ports Smash Passenger Records as Industry Makes Comeback
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INDO-PACIFIC
Chinese J-15B deck-based Jets begin deployment with Liaoning and Shandong Aircraft Carriers and China develops new J-15T naval fighter optimized for electromagnetic catapult take-off
China coast guard vessels intrude into waters around Kinmen again
Defence continues to support sanctions against North Korea
Philippine Forces Rehearse Island Seizure in South China Sea
Staunch Ally: INS Talwar undertakes Maritime Partnership Exercise with French Navy Ship
New submarine Rescue Vessel Ganghwado expands South Korea’s Naval Rescue Fleet
Pakistan Navy Successfully Tests Indigenous SMASH Ballistic Missile from Warship
Pakistani Navy Rescues Stranded Iranian Fishermen off Yemen
Philippine Coast Guard to Receive 40 Patrol Boats from France in $438 Million ODA Project
India boosts submarine fleet as region’s warship traffic picks up
Five out of six Collins submarines out of action in critical blow to national security
Austal Delivers 8th Evolved Cape-class Patrol Boat to Australia
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EUROPE
Ukraine:
Ukraine Says Drone Strike Hits Port in First Caspian Sea Attack and then three great short videos A Ukrainian Drone Motored 700 Miles And Blasted Three Russian Warships In One Blow
Kremlin aide sees continued Western attempts to drive Russia away from Black Sea
Statement by the North Atlantic Council on the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea
General:
French Navy’s Carrier Strike Group about to set sail for Indo-Pacific deployment
Spain Catches 13 Tonnes of Cocaine in One Container, a National Record
Russia’s powerful new Borei-A-class submarine Knyaz Pozharskiy returns from sea trials
New frigate Admiral Golovko sets out from Severomorsk on ‘world tour’
Royal Navy Tests Out Quantum Positioning System for GPS-Denied Navigation
Warship takes on Nato mine exercise two years after hitting one in the Black Sea
French, UK naval chiefs urge dramatic changes in warship design
Euronaval 2024: France’s new aircraft carrier design with three catapults unveiled by Naval Group
MBDA unveils submarine-launched Exocet missile to strike naval vessels
Royal Navy helicopter shoots down drone
Navantia Begins AIP System Installation on Spanish Navy Sub
L’OTAN teste l’intégration de capacités de frappe maritimes interarmées du haut du spectre
Italian Navy’s next-gen minehunters revealed by Intermarine and Leonardo at Euronaval 2024
Euronaval 2024: Naval Group to Unveil Blacksword Barracuda New Generation Stealth Submarine
Euronaval 2024: Meet Greyshark Euroatlas Autonomous Underwater Vehicle
Babcock awards milestone recycling contract in UK’s Submarine Dismantling Project
Performance boost as device gives HMS Queen Elizabeth’s propellers a clean sweep
Belgian-Dutch RMCM Toolbox Set To Start Qualification Trials
BAE to deliver Bofors 40Mk4 guns to two European navies
Belgium approves Construction of Third Naval Patrol Vessel to Enhance North Sea Security by 2027
Montenegro Strengthens Its Navy with Acquisition of Two OPV 60M Patrol Vessels from Kership
Royal Navy Disbands Autonomous Testing Team
Hapag-Lloyd Orders 24 Dual-Fuel Containerships for $4 Billion
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MIDDLE EAST
Red Sea:
Houthis Say They Will Not End Red Sea Blockade while Red Sea Crisis: IMO Chief Calls for Urgent Action as Houthi Attacks Threaten Global Shipping AND A REALLY USEFUL VIDEO SUMMARY FOR PERSPECTIVE The Bab el-Mandeb: The World’s Most Contested Chokepoint (Editor – 24:35 min video)
Report: Houthis On Track to Earn $2B a Year by Shaking Down Shipowners
Israel Can’t Hide from Houthi Attacks by Selling Ships
Dirty Fuel’s Big Comeback: HSFO Prices Spike as Ships Reroute from Red Sea Risks
Red Sea Crisis Pushes Idle Containership Fleet to Record Low as Global Demand Soars
General:
‘No End in Sight’ for Middle East Conflict, Former CENTCOM Commander McKenzie Says
Israel says Hezbollah operative captured in naval raid (Editor – one for you Arne)
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GLOBAL INTERESTS
EU/Kenya hold joint maritime exercise
Royal Moroccan Navy Stops Migrant Attempt to Hijack Cargo Ship
Could Nations Agree on a Global Plastics Treaty This Year?
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SCUTTLEBUTT
The Fatal Flaw of the Liberty Ships (Editor – 5:43 min video)
HMCS Bonaventure – The Pride of Canada’s Fleet (Editor – 14:32 min video)
Walter and Electro-Boots – U-Boats of the Future, Today(ish) (Editor – 58:42 min video)
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THIS WEEK IN RCN/MARITIME HISTORY
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.
9 November 1940 The Canadian Pacific Steamships Line passenger liner Empress of Japan (26,032 GRT) was heavily damaged in the North Atlantic, when she was bombed by Luftwaffe aircraft.
11 November 1918 Armistice Day for the “War to end all Wars” came to an end after more than four years of bloody fighting. 8,826 Canadians served in the RCN and RNCVR. 24 became casualties. Note the Royal Naval Canadian Volunteer Reserve (RNCVR) was a naval reserve that was established in Canada in May 1914 and existed until 1923. The Canadian contribution was no small one: 628,462 men were enrolled of whom 424,589 went overseas. 24,095 into the British Air Services. In all 60,661 Canadians gave their lives for the Allied Cause. For a country whose greatest military effort for over 150 years had not exceeded 10,000, and whose population had only reached eight million, this was truly a staggering effort.
12 November 2001 HMCS Vancouver departed San Diego as part of the USS John C. Stennis Carrier Battle Group joining the US-led coalition against terrorist forces in Afghanistan. The Battle Group arrived in Hong Kong on 29 Nov 2001, and in the Arabian Gulf on 19 Dec 2001. Vancouver returned home to Esquimalt on 28 May 2002.
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 cutters at Oran, Algeria. HM Ships 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 captivity, he was carried through the streets where the citizens hailed him with flowers. Captain Peters was killed in an air crash three days after his release on 13 November 1942 when returning to Britain the Sunderland flying boat crash-landed in Plymouth Sound in thick fog. Captain Peters has no known grave and is remembered on the Portsmouth Naval Memorial Hampshire, England. The Captain is very unusual in that he earned these decorations while on active service during both WWI and WWII, earning: Victoria Cross, Distinguished Service Order, Distinguished Service Cross and Bar, the British War Medal, Victory Medal, 1939-45 Star, Africa Star with Bar (North Africa 1942-43) 1939-45 Medal, and the Distinguished Service Cross (USA).
13 November 1944 HMCS Algonquin commanded by LCdr Desmond W. Piers, DSO, RCN sank German Minesweepers M-416 and M-427.
15 November 1942 While escorting a convoy, HMCS Saguenay is accidentally struck in the stern by freighter SS Azra, which sinks. Saguenay is towed to St. John’s.
15 November 1952 First Naval Reserve Air Squadron established, VC-920 at Toronto, to fly Swordfish and Avengers.
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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