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NAC News – Edition K419 HMCS Kokanee

NAC News – Edition K419 HMCS Kokanee

Your weekly national and international naval news for the week of July 23rd, 2021

Edition – K419 HMCS Kokanee (WW2 River Class Frigate)

Rod Hughes, Editor NAC News rhughes@shaw.ca

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NOTICES

  • Editor – Our President Bill Conconi wrote a letter of condolence to Her Majesty expressing our sympathies on the passing of The Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh.  We recently received thank you note on behalf of The Queen, from Sir Edward Young, Private Secretary to The Queen.  The letter posted this here.
  • 8 Aug 2021.  The dedication ceremony for the new Lt Gray memorial will take place at North Saanich’s BC Aviation Museum.  Regrettably due to Covid-19 not all the many donors (and guest) can attend.  The invitations to those selected should be in the mail by mid-July for RSVP by end of the month.  If anyone has a connection to the Gray family that desires attendance please contact Stan Brygadyr at 250-727-2243 for special consideration.  Here is a previous news article New monument honours B.C.’s final fallen World War II hero
  • 19 – 20 October 2021 – Arctic Workshop/Conference – Halifax.  NAC and the Brian Mulroney Institute of Government at StFX, in partnership with the RCN, will host a two-day workshop in Halifax tentatively scheduled for 19-20 October.  The theme will be “Arctic Maritime Partnerships – Options and Opportunities for Cooperation in the North American Arctic”.  NAC VP, Bruce Belliveau ,and his team from NSNAC is working with Adam Lajeunesse (from the Institute at StFX and our NAC naval affairs research coordinator). This workshop will not be conducted in the more usual NAC conference format. Attendance will be limited by invitation only. A few NAC members who have expertise in this area will be participating and a small number of members may be able to attend. We plan to “broadcast” the plenary sessions to all members, either live or after the event.  More details to follow later in the summer.

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THIS WEEK’S SIGNIFICANT ARTICLES

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CANADA

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USA & AMERICAS

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INDO-PACIFIC

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EUROPE

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MIDDLE EAST

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GLOBAL INTERESTS

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SCUTTLEBUTT

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SIGNIFICANT RCN DATES – JULY

(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”, historical website “The Second World War – A Day by Day Account”, and Roger Litwiller’s excellent web site, encyclopedic guidance from Fraser McKee, and anywhere else I can find credible information)

  • 1 July 1923 The RCN barracks in Halifax, known as HMCS Stadacona, is commissioned.
  • 1 July 1934 Commodore Percy W. Nelles becomes the first Canadian-born and Canadian-trained Chief of the Naval Staff.
  • 2 July 1944 Canadian MTB 460 (Canadian Motor Torpedo Boat) struck a mine in the English Channel. The commanding officer and 9 men were lost.
  • 2 July 1940 861 German and Italian prisoners of war are rescued by HMCS St. Laurent after their transport ship was torpedoed on its way to Canada.
  • 3 July 1944 Four Canadian motor torpedo boats sink two German merchant ships and damage other vessels in the English Channel.
  • 4 July 1943 Canadian vessels of the 29th and 65th Motor Torpedo Boat Flotillas conduct raids on the French coast near Cherbourg.
  • 5 July 1940 First Canadian registered merchant ship sunk in Battle of the Atlantic, CSL’s S.S. Magog, by U-99 (KL Otto Kretschmer) SW of Ireland.  No casualties.
  • 5 July 1950 HMC Ships Athabaskan, Cayuga, and Sioux sail from Esquimalt, BC, to join the United Nations naval forces operating in Korean waters.
  • 6 July 1944 HMC Ships Ottawa commanded by Cdr James D. Prentice, DSO, RCN with HMCS Kootenay commanded by A/LCDR William H. Wilson, RCN, along with HMS Statice, sank the German submarine U-678 while on patrol in the English Channel.
  • 8 July 1944 Canadian MTB 463 was lost to a mine in the English Channel.  No crew was lost, although 5 men were wounded.
  • 8 July 1954 Canada’s first icebreaking arctic patrol vessel, HMCS Labrador, is commissioned.
  • 9 July 1914 HMCS Rainbow begins preparations for the international seal patrol in the North Pacific Ocean.
  • 10 July 1943 Canadian landing craft drop soldiers of the 1st Canadian Division off on the coast of Sicily during the Allied invasion known as Operation HUSKY.
  • 15 July 1920 RNCVR is disbanded.
  • 15 July 1958 The first review of the Royal Fleet ever held in Canadian waters takes place under the eyes of Her Royal Highness Princess Margaret off the coast of Vancouver Island at Royal Roads.
  • 16 July 1914 First RNCVR seaman taken to sea in HMCS Rainbow to augment the RCN crew for a Bering Sea Fur Patrol; but diverted to assist her participation in the ‘Kamagata Maru Incident’ at Vancouver.
  • 17 July 1940 HMCS Skeena rescues 64 crewmembers of a torpedoed merchant ship, the SS Manipor, in the waters north of Scotland.
  • 19 July 1943 HMCS HURON (Destroyer) is commissioned at Newcastle on the Tyne, England.
  • 20 July 1944 HMCS MATANE (frigate) is hit by a German glider bomb off Brest and badly damaged.
  • 23 July 1951 The RCN (Reserve) begins recruiting women for service with the Women’s Royal Canadian Naval Service (the Wrens) for the first time since the Second World War.
  • 24 July 1917 The Military Service Act is passed allowing for conscription of single men.
  • 24 July 1942 HMCS St. Croix commanded by LCdr A. Hedley Dobson,  DSC, RCNR sank the German submarine U-90 while on patrol in the North Atlantic Ocean.
  • 29 July 1948 HMCS Royal Roads is transformed into a Canadian Service College 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 The Women’s Royal Canadian Naval Service (WRCNS) the Wrens is authorized, by war’s end nearly 6,500 will have joined up.

 

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