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~ (!hu4tHe4~ ?lte~ ~~~ M'EMORIES of. home are especially poignant to those far ~~ft from their native land at Christmas-a festival linked by Nt~~ tradition with jollity, good fellowship and the warmth ~~

ft . of the family hearth. Nt.~ This is the ninth Christmas of fourteen since the beginning ~

of the Second World War that officers and men of the RoyalCanadian Navy have served far from Canada in the hope

~~ that their efforts and determination will help to bring about ~~ft the reign of peace on earth. Nt

~My' wish for those in the Korean war theatre is that the ~

near future may see the world a step nearer to the fulfilment ofthe age-old dream. My wish for those at home is that they may .

~~ recall at this time of happiness the urgency of guarding those ~~ft traditions and ideals which are precious to us and the vital ft

~.. necessity of moving forward to a better time. ~

Christmas is a time of good cheer. It is the time, too, when

~,we renew our faith and resolution and, with fresh hearts, step ~fOrward to meet the challenge of the future.

- To officers, men and civil personnel of the naval forces, to

~-, former shipmates, and to the families who share the fortunes of ~

our Service, I extend most sincere Christmas greetings.>. .~

~To those of you now serving may I say that I am proud of ~

what you have achieved in the past year" and am confidentthat 1953 will be a year of still greater attainment.

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ii f~f(~ ~~~ Vice-Admiral, RCN, ~~fit, Chief of the Naval Staff Nt

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Vol. 5 No.2

~CROWSNESTTHE ROYAL CANADIAN NAVY'S MAGAZ.INE DECEMBER, 1952

CONTENTS

RCN News Review ' . .

Four Eventful Months ,

Man of tile Month . , ,

HMCS Iroquois-The Aftermath, .

Officers and Men' .

Memorial to a H~ro,

A New '~hipl Commissions, '.

Scalping Party, ,

Fighting Ancestor ,

Cayuga to the Re~cue ,

A Prornisels Kept . .

Neptune Comes Aboard ,

Afloat and Ashore ,

Coronel Remembered . .

Lower Deck Promotions .

The N~vy Play~ . .'. ,

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R.C.N.News Review

The choir was Navy and so was much of the congregation at this recent Sunday service inCent€'t1lfry-Queen Square United Church in Saint John, N.B. At the invitation of the church,the choir from HMCS Cornwallis took part in the service and church parties from four ships- HMCS Crescent, Portage and Wallaceburg and the US Submarine Threadfin - and fromthe Saint John naval division, HMCS Brunswicker, attended. (Photo by L. M. Harrison, SaintJohn)'!""

Third Christmasin War Theatre

For the thifd successive year officersand men of three Canadian destroyerswill spend Christmas in the Koreanwar theatre.

Among the 80'0 who make up theships' companies of HMC ShipsAihabaskan, Crusader and Haida aremany for whom this will be the secondChristmas in the Far East. For a fewit will be the third.

Also furrowing the sea when theChristmas candles are lit will beHMCS Iroquois, southward bounddown the' West Coast on her way tothe Panama Canal and her homeport of Halifax. Some of her crewwere to be landed at Esquimalt aweek before Christmas, but the Iro­quois was not scheduled to arrive inHalifax until the New Year was aweek old.

The Iroquois sailed for the Far Easton April 22, reaching the war zone

early in June. On being relieved byHMCS Athabaskan, November 26,she left Sasebo, Japan, on the home­ward journey. Her commanding offi­cer, Commander W. M. Landymore,

. was succeeded as Commander Cana­dian Destroyers Far East by Com­mander J. C. Reed, commandingofficer of the Athabaskan, who, likehis predecessor, assumed the actingrank of Captain on taking over theappointment.

Nootka's Guns FireFarewell Salute

HMCS Nootka gave the Koreanbattle zone a rousing farewell onlya few days before her departure forhome.

The big day was November 2,three days before she finished herfinal patrol. When communist gunsbegan shelling a friendly island inthe Haeju area off the west coast

of Korea, the Nootka came to therescue arid promply placed four outof six shells on the gun position,causing a big explosion in a cave.The target belched black smoke forhours.

The N ootka proceeded along thecoast and took care of other commun­ist heavy calibre guns which hadshelled another island, damaging ahouse and killing a woman.

That same day the Nootka covereda successful raid on the enemymainland and accounted for numerousenemy troops, dead and wounded.

The N ootka sailed November 9for Canada by way of Singapore,Suez and Gibraltar. She is due inHalifax December 17. The first Cana­dian warship to visit Singapore, theNootka was warmly welcomed andher ship's company was royally enter­tained during the ship's stop there.

Crusader Joins Ranksof "Train-Busters"

HMCS Crusader found the huntinggood during an October patrol offthe east coast of Korea. While firingat interdiction targets near Tanchon,she scored a direct hit on a lightwhich 'was followed by an explosionand clouds of smoke, indicating shehad hit"pay dirt".

The Crusader's real triumph of thispatrol occurred, however, when shejoined the ranks of the "train busters"on October 29. After laying in waitfor several nights she spotted a train asit emerged from a tunnel and stoppedit with the first salvo. All 13 carswere wrecked and the locomotive,which had shed its cars and tried toescape, was 1>lown off the track amile from the rest of the train. TheCrusader completed the job by block­ing the tunnel entrance and destroyinga stretch of track.

The.N09tka. ot} October 30 shelledtruck convoys moving along a westroad by night and the next day wentinto action when a communist shorebattery fired 3S rounds at a smallUN patrol craft. The Nootka repliedwith 36 rounds of high explosiveammunition and silenced the battery.

HMCS Iroquois shared a nightpatrol .with the Nootka and other

Shells from a communist shore battery splash off HMCS Iroquois' port side in the actionin which on~ officer and two men were kille? by a direct h!t on "~" gun ~eclc The enemy gunsopened fire Just after the destroyer had fiI1lshed bombardll1g a raIlway lIne, and bracketed theship with almost the first salvo. On the shoreline can be seen explosions of answering shellsfired by the Iroquois. (IR-164).

UN warships on October 24 in whichenemy positions were illuminatedwith starshell. Three days later theIroquois took part in a strike atHaeju during which numerous targetswere fired on and many gun positionswere silenced. '

Damaged in Collision,Ontario Homeward Bound

Damaged ina collision whichoccurred while she was entering theharbor of Buenos Aires, HMCSOntario is steaming home to Esqui.malt at reduced speed from Rio deJaneiro. Calls at La Guaira, Vene­zuela, and Cartegena, Columbia, havehad to be dropped from the cruiser'sschedule.

The accident took place in a narrowchannel at Buenos Aires when theOntario was overtaken by the Chileanfreighter, SS Arauco, and was struckon the starboard quarter. Both shipshad Argentine pilots aboard. .

The Ontario proceeded to Monte­video and Rio de Janeiro, according toschedule, arriving at Rio on No­vember 6. Wbat was planned. as afour-day stay was extended to nearlytwo weeks when the ship was dockedfor examination of damage to herstarboard propellers. It was foundnecessary to remove the starboardouter propeller and make temporaryrepairs to the starboard inner.

Apart from the regret, worry andhard work occasioned by the ship's

misadventure, the visits to the SouthAmerican cities were enjoyable ones,with a royal welcome and a busyprogram of activities awaitiilg theCanadians in each port.

MEN IN FAR EAST TO HEARGREETINGS FROM HOME

For a brief while during the Christmas season, the thousands of miles separatingthem from their homes will be erased for many of the men serving in the Far East inHMC Ships Athabaskan and Crusader.

Thanks chiefly to the efforts of two B.C. radio men, they will hear over theirships' radios the voices of families and fdends bringing them Christmas messages ofgood cheer.

Ed Farey, program director of CKDA, Victoria, and Blll Rae, owner-manager ofCKNW, Ne\'1 Westminster, have combined to produce three two-hour tape-recordedprograms featuring Christmas greetings to officers and men in the two destroyers fromfamilies and friends in the Victoria, Vancouver and New \¥estminster areas.

Mr. Farey and Mr. Rae announced the plan over their respective stations, andinvited all tllOse of their listeners with relatives or friends in the destroyers to drop inand record their vocal Christmas greetings.

The "taped" programs will be sent by air to Japan for broadcast on or beforeChristmas Day.

The idea for the broadcasts originated aboard the Crusader. Old friends of theVictoria radio station wrote from the ship that $.,00 had been collected (and more wasexpected) to help "Unde Ed" Farey put on a Christmas party for underprivilegedchildren in the British Columbia capital. The letter's suggestion that a broadcast bearranged for the Crusader was snapped up by Mr. Farey and he broadened it to includethe Athabaskan, then preparing to leave for the Far East. Mr. Rae was ready andwilling to expand the scheme to include the Greater Vancouver area.

Mr. Farey, who describes himself on his "Spinner Sanctum" program overCKDA as a "short, bald, fat man of 85 years" is, to put it more factually, a 34-year-oldveteran of six years with the RCAF - three of them in the India-Burma theatre.His Far East service may be the reason for his especially keen interest in the menserving in Canadiaildestroyers in Korean waters.

Through programs similar to those now projected, he has brought voices fromhome to tIle Athabaskan, Cayuga and Sioux. In addition he has set aside specialrequest nights on his "Spinner Sanctum" program for \Nest Coast warships serving inthe Far East.

DLTs, Visit to NorfolkFeature Carrier's Program

Deck landing training and helicop­ter trials loomed large on the programof HMCS Magnificent during Novem­ber. Aboard were Avenger and SeaFury aircraft of the 31st Support AirGroup and, for the first part of thetraining period, a Sikorsky helicopter.

The Magnificent sailed from Halifaxon November 10 on a 17-day trainingcruise in the course of which she calledat Norfolk, Virginia, to pick up nineSea Fury aircraft which had beenbrought fro111 the United Kingdom inUSS Midway in October.

Veteran Destroyer HuronStarts New Commission

Following an extensive refit andweapon conversion, HMCS Huronbegan a new commission November18 at Halifax under the command ofCommander Richard C. Chenoweth.

The Huron is a veteran of Second"'Torld \Nar service and, in addition,has a tour of operations in theKorean theatre to her credit.

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Four Bventlul MonthsHMCS Magnificent's Longest Cruise Took Her

to Three Continents, Embraced Three MajorExercises, Provided Best Training Yet

Among the star performers in Exercises Mainbrace and Emigrant was this crew of one ofHMCS Magnificent's Avenger aircraft. Piloted by Lieut. Roger Fink, centre, of Ponoka, Alta.the Avenger scored one of the two submarine "kills" recorded by planes from the "Maggie"in Mainbrace. Then, in Emigrant, the same aircraft twice located the USS Wisconsin, whichwas acting as an enemy raider, and paved the way for attacks which "sank" the ship. WithLieut. Fink are his observer, Sub-Lieut. Ronald Schieder, of Flin Flon, Man., and observer'smate, AB Robert Tuckwood, of Dawson Creek, B.C. (MAG-4181).

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W HEN HMCS Magnificent (Cap­tain Kenneth L. Dyer) re­

turned to her home port of Halifaxon October 9, it marked the end of thelongest and busiest cruise of her four­year career in the Royal CanadianNavy.

The 18,000-ton aircraft carriersteamed nearly 27,000 miles sinceleaving Halifax] une 2 on a trainingcruise which took her to Mediter­ranean and European waters. Duringthe four months she spent 90 daysat sea and took part in three majorexercises - Castanets, Mainbrace andEmigrant - as well as minor oneswith ships of the Royal Navy'sMediterranean fleet.

These exercises provided some ofthe best training yet for the officersand men of the carrier. They werecarried out under simulated war con­ditions during which the Magnifi-

cent's crew was often closed upround-the-clock as she operated withunits of eight different navies.

The Avengers and Sea Furies of the30th Carrier Air Group made nearly1,400 deck landings and flew 3,300 airhours during the ] une to Octobercruise. June was the busiest month,over 1,000 air hours being logged toset a new group record. At the end ofthe cruise, the flight deck and mainten­ance crews could point with pride to thefact that all 15 Avengers of 881 Squad­ron were serviceable and seven of theten Sea Furies of 871 Squadron werein operation.

The Magnificent visited Malta,Greece, Turkey, North Africa,Northern Ireland, Scotland and Eng­land and called at 11 different ports.

Probably the most productive por­tion of the cruise was the last twomonths. During this period the Mag-

nificent carried out anti-submarineexercises off Northern Ireland, thentook part in the NATO exercisesMainbrace and Emigrant.

During Mainbrace, which tookplace for 13 days beginning Septem­ber 13, the Canadian aircraft carrieroperated in Task Group 171, a carriersupport force. In all more than250 warships of eight NATO nationstook part in the mammoth navalmanceuvres.

In phase one of the exercise, theMagnificent, the carriers USS Min­doro and HMS Theseus, the cruiserHMNZS Eellona, and eight USNdestroyers and destroyer escorts, wereassigned to protect a convoy boundfrom the Firth of Forth to Bergen,Norway. The Magnificent's Sea Furyfighters flew combat air patrols duringthe convoy crossing, while the Aven­gers were on anti-submarine patrols.

After the convoy had been safelyescorted to Bergen the Magnificentand her task force did a repeat­some of the ships of the convoy alteredcourse 180 degrees and became aconvoy headed from Bergen to theFirth of Forth. .

On this return voyage an RCNAvenger scored the first submarine"kill" of' the exercise when a planepiloted by Lieut. William Atkinson,commanding officer of 881 Squadron,successfully attacked' a surfaced sub­marine during a daylight patrol.The observer was Lieut.-Cdr. MarcFavreau and observer's mate wasAB Douglas Carr.

The success earned a "well done"from Rear-Admiral W. G. A. Robson,Task Group Commander, flying hisflag in HMS Theseus.

After a two-day visit in the Firth ofForth, the Magnificent sailed againwith the task group on phase two ofMainbrace, during which an amphi­bious force, including US Marines,aided land forces in Jutland. Duringthe landings the Avengers of theMagnificent flew barrier anti-sub­marine patrols around the Skagenbeach area where the Marines madean 'unopposed landing, while theSea Furies were on combat air patrol.

RCN aviators added to their laurelsin phase two, an Avenger, piloted byLieut. Roger Fink, being creditedwith sinking an "Orange Force"submarine during a nighttime anti-

Sailin{from Malta to' Gibraltar on completion.of her stay in the Mediterranean, the Mag­nificent made the passage via the Straits of Messina, between Sicily and Italy, and then past thefamous volcanic island of Stromboli in the Tyrrhenian Sea. (Jl'fAG-4120).

group had submarines as the mainthreat. Avenger and Sea Fury aircraftflew heavy schedules during the entireexercise. But the weather wasn'talways co-operative and heavy seasand poor visibility, or a combinationof both, sometimes curtailed theflying program.

'i\Then the Magnificent and hergroup neared Canadian shores a heavyfog set in and forced cancellation ofthe final part of the convoy escortexercise. The Magnificent and theQuebec, originally due at Halifax onOctober 12, arrived in port three daysearly because of the weather condi­tions.

The Magnificent's cruise ended andbegan with a NATO exercise. OnJune 17, two weeks after she had leftHalifax, the Canadian carrier joinedin Exercise Castanets, a nine-dayaffair which took place in the NorthAtlantic.

In this exercise, the Magnificentwas part of a carrier group providingclose support for a Halifax-boundconvoy. Later the convoy turnedaround and participating ships andaircraft got more practice as theconvoy then sailed for the UnitedKingdom. Aircraft of the Magnificentcarried out a round-the-clock flyingprogram.

The Magnificent returned to Ports­mouth at the end of June and after a

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submarine patrol. It was the second"kill" for the Magnificent's aircrew.These two sinlcings were the onlyones recorded by aviators from thethree carriers in the task group.Observer of tlle Avenger was Sub­Lieut. Ronald Schieder and observer'smate was Ldg. Sea. Robert Tuckwood.

Following the amphibious landing,the ships of Mainbrace carried outreprovisioning evolutions with tankersof the British and American navies.This was the final part of the exerciseand on its completion the mightyarmada split up and headed forhome.

Captain Dyer left the Magnificentand joined HMCS Swiftsure to attendthe critique at Oslo. He was accom­panied by Commander ArthurAbrams, Commander (Air), andLieut.-Cdr. Harry Porter, Communi­cations Officer.

The Magnificel~t, under the tem­porary command of Commander C. P.Nixon, sailed for the Clyde and duringthe passage hit the worst weather ofthe cruise. High winds and heavy seasshowed no res])ect for the carrier's18,000-ton bulle. Flight deck andhangar crews worked overtime addingextra lashings to aircraft and equip­ment on the flight deck and in thehangar.

The Magniflcent dropped anchorat the Tail of the Bank 011 Septem­ber 26 and spent five days in the Clydebefore leaving on October 1 to beginExercise Emigrant.

A total of 53 USN warships andtwo of the RCN took part in Emigrant,as well as carrier- and land-basedplanes. The exercise was designed togive tl:aining in the control and pro­tection . of shipping in the NorthAtlantic against submarines andraiders.

Captain Dyer was Commander ofTask Group 155.3, which formed theclose escort for a large, fast convoybound from the United Kingdomto the United States. HMCS Quebec

NATO Chiefs PraiseMainbrace Participants

HMC Ships Magnificent and Que~ecshared in a message of congratulatIOnsent by General Matthew B. Ridgwayand Admiral L. D. McCormick follow­ing Exercise Mainbrace. The messageread:

"To all forces taking part in Main­brace from SACEUR, SACLANT:Please convey to all participat,ing. inMainbrace our personal admIratJO.nand that of our commanders for thISperformance. Our confidence in themis complete."

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(Captain P. D. Budge), the otherCanadian ship in Emigrant, tookon her familiar role of an enemyraider during the first two phases ofthe exercise..

Both RCN units distinguishedthemselves during the Emigrant oper­ations. An Avenger from the Magni­ficent's 881 Squadron twice spottedand tracked the battleship USS Wis­consin, which represented a six-inch"enemy" cruiser, and led to her being"disabled." The Quebec, posing as an"enemy raider," was credited withsinking the giant carrier USS Waspand one destroyer in a daring nightattack which the umpire described as"beautifully carried out." Later, whenthe Quebec joined the Magnificent inthe close escort group, the Quebec'sguns inflicted heavy damage on the"raider" Wisconsin in an hour-longgun duel.

The Avenger which located the'iVisconsin on two occasions duringphases one and two of Emigrant waspiloted by Lieut. Fink, who hadscored a submarine victory in Main­brace. Sub-Lieut. Schieder was ob­server on both trips while Ldg. Sea.Tuckwood was the observer's mateon the first and AB Harry Sully wentas observer's mate on the second whenTuckwood took ill.

For the third phase of Emigrant,the Magnificent and her close escort

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The Magnificent's cruise was not without its lighter moments" among which was a carnivalheld on the flight deck during the stay at Malta. A popular spot was the hot dog stand-Don'sDiner-run by officers bf the ship's supply staff. Left to right, dishing out the dogs, are Lieut.­Cdr. R. C. Willis, Commander Donald McClure, supply officer, Lieut.-Cdr. C. P. G. Dodwelland Commissioned Commissary Officer J. A. Vaillancourt. (MAG-4111).

short visit sailed for the Mediterranean,arriving at Malta on July 10. Fourdays later, after carrying out man­reuvres with the Mediterranean fleet,the Magnificent joined 28 Royal Navyships in Navarin Bayfor the famousfleet regatta. The Canadians enteredcrews in all races but their lack ofpractice and training showed up asthey usually finished in the middle ofthe pack.

Lieutenant-GovernorGuest Aboard Carrier

The flag of Nova Scotia flutteredfrom the mast of HMCS Magnificentwhen sheI sailed to take part in thefinal phase of Exercise Cordex offHalifax October 24. On board was theHon. Alistair Fraser, recently appointedLieutenant-Governor of Nova Scotia,who embarked on the invitation ofCaptain Kenneth L. Dyer, the com­manding officer of the carrier and aNova Scotian himself. _

The Lieutenant-Governor witnessedday and night flying exercises of theSea Furies and Avengers of the carrierair group, the carrier's part in convoyprotection and manreuvres with other'warships late at night. He also pre­sented long service decorations tosenior men in the carrier and boat­swain's calls to ordinary seamen wholed their training classes in the ship.

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After the regatta, the Magnificentwent into Phaleron Bay, near Athens,for a visit from July 19 to 22. On the24th, the Magnificent arrived inIstanbul, Turkey, with units of theRoyal Navy, and it was from herethat the ships made a hurried depar­ture because of the Egyptian crisis.The Magnificent sailed on to Tobruk,North Africa, for a three-day visitbefore leaving for Malta on July 31.

At Malta from August 2 to 11,officers and men of the Magnificenthad their longest stay in port of thecruise. It gave them time to look aftermaintenance and repairs. Meanwhile,the aircraft of the 30th Carrier AirGroup had been disembarked beforearrival and were operating out of theshore station at Halfar.

The Avengers and Sea - Furiesjoined U.S. carrier-borne planes, RAFVampires, and Royal Marine Com­mandos in a defence of Malta exercisethat provided excellent training.

In mid-August the Magnificentsailed from the Mediterranean forNorthern Ireland. Near Gibraltar shewas met by HMCS Crescent, whichwas' to act as plane guard for flyingexercises. In Belfast the officers andmen visited what many call "Maggie'ssecond home port". They renewed oldfriends who knew the Magnificent

when she was being built there satheyear;] ago.

From Belfast the Magnificent wentto Londonderry to begin a week-longtraining period at the Joint Anti­Submarine School. There were demon­strations and lectures at the schooland sea training in carrier supportgroups aod hunter-killer forces. Thisperiod from September 4 to 10provided some good instructional andpractical training and helped tosharpen the RCN fliers for the forth­coming Mainbrace and Emigrant.

The Magnificent then sailed forRosyth, where she arrived on Septem­ber 11, and began preparations forMainbrace, which for her was tostart four days later.

The four-month cruise not only wasthe longest yet made by the Magnifi­cent, but from all indications was themost beneficial from a training stand­point. The ship's' organization wastested many times during the variousexercises, and officers and men ac­quired a great deal of knowledge aboutwhat war operating conditions wouldbe like. There were many opportuni­ties, too, to work with ships andaircraft of other navies, and to meetofficers and men of the NATO nationsashore during off duty hours.

In summing up the cruise CaptainDyer said: "In carrier operations youcan't get enough training. Throughoutthe cruise we have been engaged inuseful exercises with ships and picinesof nearly all NATO countries and ithas been tremendously valuable."

He said that he was "very proud"of the showing of the Canadianaviators, particularly in anti-sub­marine work.

Red Feather GivenStQut Naval Support

As in past years, the 1952 CommunityChest campaign was strongly supportedin ships and establishments of the ReN.

Typical was the response at NavalHeadquarters, where 11. quota of $3,308was over-subscribed by more than$1,000. Congratulations on the Navy'seffort were contained in the followingletter from the Deputy Minister ofNational Defence, C. M. Drury:

"r wa.s delighted to learn that theNavy ex:ceeded its objective of $3,308for the current Community Chestcampaign on the fourth day of thecampaign. This is the third consecutiveyear Navy h;J.s exceeded its target.To do so. this year on the fourth dayreflects credit on the splendid way youare handling the campaign."

" . . . I wish to extend to you and allthe others who are participating inthe campaign my sincere congratu­lations."

Man of the Month

'Mr. Seamanship'by 1.8.

That's What They Call CPOGuy Beaulieu, (Buffer'

of HMCS Quebec

H M CS Quebec is proud to presentChief Petty Ofncer Guy Joseph

Beaulieu, Chief Boatswain's Mateof the training cruiser, as Man of theMonth for December.

A "Buffer" par excellence, CPOBeaulieu is a tireless worker who, in acrisis, invariably appears in the rightplace with the right answer, and hasthe additional happy faculty of beingable to produce the seemingly im·possible with the materials at hand.A further, and important, quality isthe infinite patience he exercises insupervising the upper deck work ofthe young, untried sailors comprisinga large proportion of the Quebec'screw.

Chief Petty Gfncer Beaulieu's ser­vice certificate shows some 44 differentships and establishments which havebenefited from his presence since heentered the RCN as a boy seaman inMarch 1937.

Born on April 4, 1919, in Isle Verte,on the south shore of the St. Lawrencenear Riviere du Loup, Beauiieu spenthis childhood under the influence ofmen whose lives were bound to thewater. When it came time for him tochoose a career he looked instinctivelyto the mighty river ... and beyondit to the sea. The navy seemed alogical choice and in it he enlisted.

His initial training was taken inStadacona, which was then located inthe dockyard. The mixture of earlymorning boat pulling, PT and coldshowers, followed by the tenderministrations of the gunners' mates,did nothing to impair his cheerfuloutlook on life.

The latter part of August 1937 sawhim going on board HMCS St.Laurent to begin the life of a sailor inearnest. From the start, Beaulieu wasa natural seaman. He was quick tolearn and fitted easily into the de­stroyer's routine.

On July 30, 1938, he was drafted tothe Skeena, where he remained untilthe outbreak of war. Following ashort stint in Stadacona he went tothe first HMCS Ottawa and servedin that ship for the ensuing 14 months.

In June 1941 he was advanced to.leading seaman and, while still serving

in the Ottawa, qualified seamantorpedoman.

The corvettes had begun to maketheir appearance at sea and inOctober 1941 Beaulieu, now a pettyofncer, was drafted to HMCS Bitter­sweet, one of the first of the famedlittle ships to be built in Canada.\\Tith warships commissioning in in­creasing numbers, the need for Cox­swains was acute and Beaulieu found

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CHIEF PETTY OFFI eERGUY JOSEPH BEAULIEU

himself an Acting Chief Petty Officercarrying out the duties of Coxswainin the Bittersweet.

While serving in the Bittersweet, onthe convoy run to Iceland, CPOBeaulieu and his shipmates wentthrough one of the worst Atlanticstorms of the war. The sturdy cor­vette lost her mast and, as it carriedaway, it lifted the asdic house, abaftthe bridge, some two feet clear of thedeck. Throughout much of the stormCoxswain Beaulieu was at the wheel.The crossing took 21 days.

His next ship, the minesweeper\\Tasaga, was employed escorting ironore ships from Wabana, Nfld., toSydney, N.S. During this commissionthe Wa::;aga took aboard crew mem­bers of the collision-damaged HMCS

Saguenay, later taking the destroyerin tow under severe weather condi­tions. The Coxswain played a pro­minent part in the operatioll bytaking charge of passing the towlineto the damaged destroyer.

In September 1943 CPO Beaulieubecame Coxswain of HMCS Stor­mont, a frigate assigned to an anti­submarine support group operatingout of Londonderry. In the year-and­a-half that Beaulieu spent aboard herthe Stormont rolled up an impressiveamount of seatime. On one occasionshe was "on the go" for 56 days,stopping only long enough to take onfuel and stores. During this period shespent 42 consecutive days at sea.

On D-Day the group, EG 9, wasstationed at the western end of theEnglish Channel to forestall possiblesubmarine attacks on the invasionfleet.

Later in the summer, while opera­ting in close to the enemy-occupiedcoast, the Stormont came ullder firefrom a German shore battery. A shellfragment killed one man and the shipexperienced several near misses.

At the close of the war Beaulieu wasserving in the second Ottawa, plough­ing the North Atlantic convoy lanesfrom St. John's to 'Derry. Subse­quently he served in the Haida,Iroquois and Micmac, all Tribal classdestroyers.

On November 11, 1948, with awealth of experience behing him,Beaulieu came ashore to the Seaman­ship School at Stadacona as· ChiefInstructor. He served in this capacityuntil September 1951 and during histenure many an ambitious youngCanadian sailor benefited from hisknowledge and patience.

When HMCS Quebec was due tocommission and a good Chief Boat­swain's Mate was needed, someone'seagle eye settled on Guy JosephBeaulieu. It was an inspired choice,for the qualities of loyalty, perse­verance, patience and devotion toduty are deeply ingrained in theQuebec's Man of the Month. (It is aninfallible S-264 when the majority ofthe ship's company has written it.)

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HMCS Iroquois-The Aftermathby]. L. W.

Able Seaman Edwin Jodoin of Toronto, wounded when HMCS Iroquois was struck by ashell from a communist shore battery, is transferred in a stretcher to a USN supply ship to betaken to hospital in Sasebo, Japan. Jodoin suffered a broken leg and shrapnel wounds of theleg and foot.in the action in which one officer and two men of the Iroquois were killed. In theimmediate foreground ani CPO Peter Fane, Victoria and Dartmouth, N.S.; Ldg. Sea. BenedictPask, LondQn, ant., and Halifax, and Ldg. Sea. Derald Richardson, Saint John, N.B. On theother· side of the stretcher are Surgeon Lieut. Donald Brooks, Toronto; Lieut. (SB) JamesWightman, Toronto; AB W. Gorley Green, Dunnville, ant.; PO Charles Quirback, Montrealand Halifax, and PO Malcolm Payne, Saint John, N.B., and Halifax. In the background areLdg. Sea. Richard Leeming, Saint John, N.B., and, wearing the white baseball cap, Ldg. Sea.Victor Stobbs, Woodstock, ant. (IR-172).

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ON BOARD HMCS IROQUOIS­The toughest part of the Iro­

quois' fight with a shore batterybegan when the fight finished.

The Iroquois, with an Americandestroyer escort, USS Marsh, wasmaking a daylight interdiction bom­bardment on a coastwise stretch ofthe main North Korean railway line.Some time previously HMS Charity(destroyer) caught a train on thissection of line and blasted it andseveral hundred yards of track, suc­cessfully cutting the Reds' principaleast coast line of communication.

The interdiction task, which theIroquois and Marsh were carryingout on the afternoon of October 2,was designed to keep that line cut.Working parties could be seenin the area, toiling to get the line backinto service. The Iroquois, with theMarsh supporting, opened up withher 4-inch armament and sent theroad gang scurrying for cover.

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The shore battery fired on thetwo ships as they were turning toseaward, the operation just aboutfinished for the day.

Close on the heels of a couple. ofranging rounds, a shell hit "B" gunckck. It killed Lieut.-s:mo:---John

CQllinri and AB Elblwn~~aikie) in­stantly. AB Walli( Burden.'}was criti­cally wounded andeliec1 several hourslater. Ten men suffered light woundsfrom fragments and blast.

"B" gun deck was covered in apall of powder smoke. It was im­possible to determine, from the bridge,the number of casualties or theextent of the damage. Shells fromashore were still bracketing the shipas she snaked her way out of range atfull speed, all guns blazing at thebattery, and black smoke' pouringastern.

The doctor, Surgeon Lieut. DonaldBrooks of Toronto, was treating thewoun'ded while enemy shells were still

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splashing alongside the ship. Theship's medical assistant, PO EmllienFortin, of Giffard, Que., and thefirst aid party were hard at workunder the doctor's direction.

After Lieut. Brooks examined eachof the wounded men, the first aidparty, with the help of many otherwilling hands, began to move themaft. They were bedded down in thesick bay, the captain's day cabinand the after canopy.

For a few hours, the flat was thebusiest place in the ship. Men werespread out on the deck, covered withblankets, winter jackets and anythingelse available. Other men workedover them, bandaging, cleaning, andpassing out cigarettes and warmingcups of tea.

For several hours, the doctor de­voted all his attention to AB Burden,the one man on the critically injllredlist. In spite of a s~.pap.~ruI woundin. his right leg, PQ. For~in)wo~'kedWith the doctor. the who e··tr e. Lieut.(L) Earl McConechy assisted them.

None of the others was in danger.Members of the first aid party, withmany willing helpers, made the mencomfortable and administered first aiduntil the doctor was able to treat them.Three men in particular worked longhours to comfort the wounded men --.PO Howard Smith of Halifax, POFrank_lucl?~of~oro~to and POEdwa4f Moslm oUSpaldmg, Sasle POMoslin\..had.suff~da shrapnel woundand was himself put on the woundedlist later that night. Among the otherswho assisted the first aid men wereLieut. (S) D. S. McNicol of Victoriaand Halifax, arid Ldg. Sea. Dei-aIdRichardson of s~nt=~.. hn, N.B.

AB Edwin ~odQi of Toronto,'with a complex fra ure of his leftankle and shrapnel wounds, was themost seriously wounded o~.. tfih:JJrtermen. He and' AB Joseph Gaudet ofTignish, P.E.I., who had uff red apeppering by flying fragments, weretransferred the next day to the USSChemung, a supply ship, for transportto the US Army hospital in Sasebo,Japan.

The others were only superficiallyinjured and all of them were backon full duty within a few days. Ont~w:otl-rded list were AB AimeAdam of Joliette, Que., AB Waldo

_ "e' gg~Qf'Newport,N.S., AB Gil­bertftrynn:i:> of Spaldil}gi;Sa-:S~ POForttrr;----PO-~Gef.:alq ( J amies.9n -, "'0~Halifax, p{~o~~5fl.B-Bttg'e1iee.~~J

The firing party from HMCS Crusader presents arms as the funeral procession bearing the• bodies of Lieut.-Cdr. Quinn and Able Seamen Baikie and Burden and led by Chaplain John

Wilson, enters the Common'wealth Cemetery at Yokohama. (CU-213).

At sea off the east coast of Korea, the ship's company of HMCS Iroquois held a service ofremembrance for three shipmates who were killed six days previously when the destroyer washit by a shell from a communist shore battery, Led by Captain William M. Landymore, theservice took place on the same day the three Canadians were buried in the Commonwealthcemetel-y at Yokohama, Japan. The Iroquois paused during her patrol to hold the service notfar from where the action took place. (IR-195).

ing ofucer of HMS Ladybird, repre­senting the Flag Officer Second-in­Command Far East Station.

R. E. A. Morton, head of the Cana­dian Military Mission, Tokyo, andCommander D. G. Clark, command-

of Beaver- Harbor, N.S., and ABWaltl:j(Wrigley)of Sudbury; .

The next day the IroquOIs wentalongside the USS Chemung to fueland replenish., AB Jodoin and ABGaudet were transferred in stretchers.The bodies of Lieut.-Cdr. Quinn,AB Baikie and AB Burden werepiped over the side to the Chemung.

The Iroquois then returned to heroperational area to finish the two­week patrol.

On 'Wednesday, October 8, theship took an hour off from the arduouspatrol. At 1030, all the ship's companyoff watch assembled on the forecastle.At the same time as their three ship­mates were being buried with fuJInaval honors in the CommonwealthCemetery in Yokohama, Japan, theofficers and men of the Iroquois held amemorial service at sea. Simply andwith heavy hearts, they prayed fortheir fallen comrades.

A/Captain W. M. Landymore,commanding officer of the Iroquois,conducted the service, ten miles toseaward of where the action tookplace. It consisted of prayers, Scrip­ture passages, the hymns, "0 God,Our Help in Ages Past" and "Abidewith Me", and two minutes' silence.

The service ended, the Iroquoisresumed her patrol duties. For anothersix days she ranged up and down thearea, shooting up a variety of enemytargets and making a particular pointof blockillg communist attempts torepair their important coastal rail line.

In the service at Yokohama, thethree flag-draped coffins were borneto their final resting place on theshoulders of men from HMCS Cru­sader and were saluted by a firingparty, landed from the same ship.

The cortege entered' the gates ofthe British Commonwealth Cemeteryled by Chaplain John Wilson, Pro­testant padre of the Canadian des­tI-oyers in the Far East. Behind were'the mourners and armed services andgovernment representatives, wi~h

Lieut.-Cdr. J. H. G. Bovey, captamof the Crusader, as chief mourner.

The committal service was readby the chaplain, the bodies werelowered and, the last handful ofearth thrown into the graves and thelast farewell volley fired, the funeralparty dispersed.

Besides officers from the Crusader,the funeral was attended by Lieut.­Cdr. (S) Peter Cossette, Canad!anNaval Liaison Officer; A. R. MenZies,Charge d'Affaires, Canadian Em­bassy; Captain M. N. TufneJl, U:K.Naval Attache, Tokyo, representmgthe British Embassy; Brigadier

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_ Entertaining interludes are few and far between for Canadian sailors serving off the shoresof~Korea. When they come, the men make the best of them, as this photo illustrates. Taken onboard the Nootka, it shows off-duty hands hugely enjoying a boxing match between two ableseamen who, being unable otherwise to resolve their differences, decided to settle matters bymeans of the gloves. (NK-1705).

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Three Men go BackFor Third Korean Tour

Three men aboard HMCS Atha­baskan, now on her third tour ofduty in the Korean war theatre, canmat~h the destroyer's record ofserVice.

The third-timers are PO FredWood, PO Hal Zerbin and AB JohnKobayashi. The last named had aspecial reason for wanting to beincluded in the Athabaskan's comple­ment. Twice before AB Kobayashihas been frustrated in his efforts towed his sweetheart,. Miss KazukoEshemura, of Hiroshima, who wasorphaned by the Hiroshima atomi"<;blast. _

The first time it was because therewas no formal peace treaty signed

between Canada and Japan. On thenext tour of duty, Miss Eshemura'sbrother and head of the family, adie-hard soldier who refused to acceptJapan's defeat, objected.

AB Kobayashi, Canadian-born and23, is determined that nothing willprevent his marriage to his fianceethis time. .

Five from Lower Deck 0'Start University Courses

Five men of the RCN have been.promoted to Cadet and are now en­rolled at various Canadian univer­sities for courses under the universitytraining plan.

They are Cadets Gerald CharlesRennie and John A. Sinclair, takingelectrical engineering at the Universit~

of New Brunswick; Williamf'tformanOwer, taking~mechanical engineering,also at UNB; Ernest Bennet Larkin,now in his sophomore year at St.Dunstan's College, Charlottetown,taking commerce and finance, andRoss Harold Hermiston, taking com­merce at Queen's University:.

All five qualified under the scheme,common to all three services, wherebyselected men may attend universityat service expense. On the successfulcompletion of their courses they willbe promoted to sub-lieutenant's rankin their respective branches.

Cadets Rennie and Ower wereformerly p€-tty officers, Larkin was aleading seaman and Hermiston andSinclair were able seamen.

CPO Donald McIntyreReceives Commission

Chief Petty Officer Keith DonaldMcIntyre, of Edmonton, PrinceAlbert, Sask., and Halifax, has beenpromoted to the rank of ActingCommissioned Engineer, RCN.

Commissioned Engineer McIntyreserved at sea for more than threeyears of _the war and in June 1945was mentioned in despatches for hisservices as Chief ERA of HMCSDunver (frigate).

Mr. McIntyre began an officers'divisional course at HMCS Corn­wallis on October 31.

Seven Men PromotedFor Aviation Training·

Five men of the RCN and twoof the RCN(R) have been promotedto midshipman, RCN, and havebegun colirses leading to specializationin naval aviation.

They are former Ldg. Sea. JamesH. Dunn and Able Seamen WilliamGunn, Ronald Lang, Walter K.Brown and Bernard Bjornson, all ofthe RCN, and Ordinary SeamenRobin Anthony Watt and ArnoldLawrence Gilmour of the RCN(R).

They wlll spend the next six monthsat HMCS Cornwallis, taking a JuniorAviation Officers' Basic Course, and

HMCS Sioux had the honor of transporting the Governor General of Canada, the Rt. Hon.Vincent Massey, from Vancouver to Victoria and from Nanaimo to Prince Rupert during hisrecent West Coast visit. His Excellency is pictureCl here on the destroyer's br,idge with Com-mander P. E. Haddon, commanding officer of the Sioux. (E-20692). .

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New Commanding OfficersAt Three Naval DivisionsHMCS DONNACONA

Acting Commander Guy St. A.Morigenais, formerly executive officer,has taken over command of HMCSDonnacona, the Montreal naval di~vision. He succeeds CommanderP. A. F. Langlois, commanding officerof the division since August 1949. Thechange in command came onOctober 15.

Commander Mongenais was bornin Montreal on September 26, 1914,and entered the RCNVR there inMay 1940. Following various training'courses and appointments he becameexecutive officer of HMCS Calgary(corvette) and for two years saw dutyin this ship in the North Atlantic andMediterranean.

He then took a command course inHalifax, on completion of which hewas appointed commanding officer of

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returned to' his home port divisionon the West Coast, rated congratula­tions on the record of his class.While CR50 was not the first class inwhich a 100 per cent final mark hadbeen achieved in Morse, it was thefirst to have four men obtain perfectfigures. The four were' Able SeamenJohn Adderley, IBruno Turcotte,Melville Greer and Ernest Rideout.

Four Get PerfectMarks in Morse

Completing its course at the Com­munications School on September 29,Communications Radio Class 50 wassent in a body to Albro Lake navalradio station to assist the regularstaff during Exercise Emigrant.

Besides helping to ease the pressureof work in the station during' the busyexercise period, the newly-qualifiedcommunicators obtained much valu­able experience. Deserving specialmention is AB John Adderley, whoworked in one of the busiest ship­shore bays and performed like aveteran.

CPO Robert Wilson, who has since

Awarded CommissionAs Air Engineer

Chief Petty Officer Laurent G.Laramee, of Montreal and Dart­mouth, N.S., has been promoted tothe rank of Acting CommissionedEngineer (AE).

Commissioned Engineer Larameeentered the RCN six years ago as anacting air artificer at HMCS York,Toronto. He formerly had servednine years with the RCAF.

to the Electrical School at HMCSStadacona and Commissioned OfficerFleming will join HMCS Quebec.

Two CPOs PromotedTo Commissioned Rank

Two Chief Petty Officers of theRCN have been promoted to therank of C0I11Inissioned Radio Officer.

They are Commissioned RadioOfficers Henry O. Baker, of Wilcox,Sask., and Blackville, N. B., andJohn Fleming, of Edmonton andHalifax. They began a six-weekofficers' divisional course at HMCSCornwallis on October 31, after whichCommissioned Officer Baker will go

Two naval diefs, Vice-Admiral E. R.Mainguy, Chief of the Naval Staff of theRCN, and Admiral Sir Rhoderick R.McGrigor, First Sea Lord and Chief of Staffof the RN, are pictured at the entrance toNational Defence Headquarters during thelatter's visit to Ottawa. (0-3271).

a further six months in either theOntario' or Quebec for sea training.They will then commence specialisttraining as pilots or observers. .

N.S. Lieutenant-GovernorPresen.ts Medals, Awards

At a recent ceremony on boardHMCS Magllificent, His HonorAlistair Fraser, Nova Scotia's newLieutenant-Governor, presented CPOLeonard Lycett with the Long Serviceand Good Conduct Medal. At thesame ceremony the Canadian FormsDecoration was presented to CPOs\1\1. Thomas Lockhart, Lionel Roberts,Carlos Ripley, John F. Myers, JohnKiley, Leonard Tedds and Ldg. Sea.Leslie Inglis.

Three other men received boat­swain's calls for being first in theirclasses of ordinary seamen undertraining. They were Ordinary SeamenRandall \iVeatherstone, Fred Osipoffand Ian Robb.

• Pictured above are members of the 35th leadership cou~se to be held at HMCS Cornwallisfor chief and petty officers. Front row, left to right: POs W: Shipley, K. Guertin and J. Hall,CPO R. Barringer, instructor; Lieut. S. Dee, course officer; POs F, Wapola, H. Muirhead andJ. Herda. Centre row: POs K.· Powell, J. Moore, F. Harris, A. Turpin, J. Cochlan, J. Doyle,G. Portman and R. Geary. Rear row: POs R. Zacharias, R. Jalbert, L. Ormsbee, J. Morris,F. Hoyle, D. Gallpen, H. Dibblee, E. Suffidy and R. Keown (DB-1912).

HMCS Summerside (corvette) onSeptember 1, 1943. During the periodhe was in command' of the Summer­side, the ship took partin the invasionof Normandy and escorted convoys inthe North Atlantic and EnglishChannel.

In February 1945, he was appointedto HMCS Chaleur, the wartimeoperational base at Quebec City, andin March of that year became exe­cutive officer of the establishment.

Demobilized· late in 1945, he re­entered the reserve in June 1947. Hewas appointed executive officer ofDonnacona on January 26, 1952. Hispromotion to the rank of ActingCommander came on July 1, 1950.

HMCS CHATHAMCommand of the Prince Rupert,

B.C., naval division, HMCS Chat­ham, was assumed on October 1 byLieut.-Cdr.T. A. Johnstone.

He succeeded Lieut.-Cdr. John D.McRae, commanding officer of Chat­ham since January 1948.

Lieut.-Cdr. Johnstone was born inPrince Rupert on October 30, 1915,and at the age of 16 was a bugler withthe RCNVR, in which he did a three-year stint in the early '30s. '

It was as an Acting Sub-Lieutenantthat he re-entered the RCNVR onOctober 5, 1939. Following officer'straining, he served in HMCS Chilli­wack (corvette), which he joined onher commissioning in April 1941.

In 1942 he was drafted toHMCSCornwallis, then in Halifax, for ,a longtorpedo course. Following duty at thetorpedo school at HMCS Nadeh hewas appointed to HMCS St. Laurent

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(destroyer) and served in her untilthe end of the war., Lieut.-Cdr. Johnstone was demob­ilized in November 1945 and thefollowing January was accorded men­tion in despatches for his war services.

HMCS MONTCALMWith the appointment of Com­

mander Marcel J. A. T. Jette ascommanding officer of HMCS d'Iber­ville, the basic training school in,Quebec City, Lieut.-Cdr. W. G.Myletthas been appointed to succeedhim in command of HMCS Montcalm,Quebec City's naval division.. Lieut.-Cdr. Mylett was born in

Winnipeg on January 16, 1916. He·entered the RCNVR at Vancouverin July 1941 and, following anofficers' training course at HMCSKings, was attached in 1942 to theExamination Service at Halifax, in­specting shipping entering that port.

He was appointed to HMCS Drum­mondville (Bangor minesweeper) asexecutive officer in 1943. Later in theyear he was one of the commissioningparty of the frigate HMCS Dunver,becoming her executive officer inJanuary 1944.

Lieut.-Cdr. Mylett was mentionedin despatches in June 1945, thecitation observing that "h'is alertnessand organizing ability have donemuch, through the good teamwork ofthe ship's company, to bring aboutthe probable destruction of a sub­marine." The submarine kill, by theDunver and HMCS Hespeler, wasconfirmed after the war.

Demobilize~1 in October 1945,Lieut.-Cdr. Mylett entered the

RCN(R) a year and a half later. Hebecame executive officer of Montcalmin February 1948, serving in thatcapacity for two years.

Photographer Gets WishAfter Two-year Wait

From dOEk to deck is not a longstep but for Chief Petty OfficerNorman E. Keziere, of Victoria, itrepresented the fulfilment of a two­year-old wish.

CPO Keziere, a naval photographerat HMCS Naden, more than a dozentimes has recorded the comings andgoings of Canadian destroyers boundto or from the Korean war zone,but until he sailed in the Athabaskanfrom Esquimalt on October 29 he hadnot seen service in any of the RCNships serving in the war theatre.

One of CPO Keziere's primaryduties while serving in the Far Eastwill be to make a motion picturerecord of the activities of Canadianships on patrols, bombardments,carrier screens and other assignments.

CPO Keziere's familiar camera hasrecorded departures of Korea-boundships on seven different occasionsand he has been on hand six timeswhen West Coast ships have returnedto Esquimalt from war service. Inaddition, he has photographed thearrivals and departures of variousEast Coast ships stopping overbriefly on their way to or from theFar East.

CPO Norm.an Keziere, naval photographerserving on board 'HMCS Athabaskau, saysfarewell 'to his wife and lS-month-old Mamieprior ,to the ship's departure for the"'!(oreantheatre (E-20784).

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Wartime GuerillaNow Naval Bandsman

A musician whose career was rudelyinterrupted by four years of guerillawarfare and several more in a dis­placed persons camp is one of thelatest additions to the naval band atHM CS Stadacona.

Petty Officer Vlaho Miloslavich;RCN(R), started life in Yugoslaviaand in the '208 and early '30s playedtrumpet in the crack Royal MilitaryBand. One of the most celebratedbands on the Continent, it appearedbefore Royal Houses, and in Belgrade,the Yugoslav capital, played in manyoperettas and concerts for the lateKing Alexander.

Communicators CompetingFor Flag-Hoisting Trophy

To further interest on the part of "FID" ENTERTAINS CORNWALLIS SHIPMATESordinary seamen under training as A light-hearted young sailor with a faculty for always getting in hot water isvisual communicators, the Commu- noW under tmining at HMCS Cornwallis. Though one of the most popular figures innications School at Conn"allis has the establishment, he is making little, if any, progress in his naval career and chances

'v are he'll never get beyond the rank of Ordinary Seaman.re-instituted competition for the This young man is Ordinary Seaman "Fid," and is a matter of pen and ink and

__Ma1h~iIDILElaz-HoistingTrop"'I'-;lYl'-'. 1 paper. His creator is PO Peter Younger, who is on the Cornwallis staff. PO. YoungerThe trophy was donated by Com- ------alaa large amount maffiWing~'tn(JcartOcllmlgTorl:PUNarry Cilley's entertaIning

book, "Gate and Gaiters", and formerly was employed as a commercial artist inmander P. H. Matheson, RN, in Toronto.June 1944, while he was serving on PO Younger's talents long have been recognized in Cornwallis, so it was noloan at HMCS St. Hyacinthe. At surprise to the establishment to !lnd Ord. Sea. "Fid" appearing on the scene.that time tIle competitions wereheld in the dog watches and, as 20or more classes took part, it wasconsidered a high honor to win.

The competition today is on asmaller scale but the will to win hasnot diminished. The first victor wasCV53, under the able guidance ofPO William Kitchin. CommanderR. W. Murdock, officer-in-charge ofthe school, presented the trophy atEvening Quarters to Ord. Sea. DonaldCurry.

"HAVE YOU AN 'EXCUSED DOUBLING' CHIT?"

PO Miloslavic7~and tru,mpet

When the Germans marchedthrough the country in 1941, Milosla­vich traded his trumpet for a tommy­gun and, with 20,000 Royalist com-

, patriots, went underground to fight aguerilla action from the mountainsand countryside.

Hunted like criminals, they stoletheir way at night, striking when theydared. Peasants faced death to feedand shelter them as they soughthiding places in between bloodyencounters, often hand-to-hand, withthe Germans, Italians and, later,the Communists.

Late in 1944 the remaining Royal­ists were forced to make a run forthe Italian border. Says Petty OfficerMiloslavich, "It took us four months

to trek through the mountains. Bygood fortune we met advancingBritish forces who gave us refuge.There were but 6,000 of us left."

After several years in a D P campVlaho emigrated to Canada. Likeall newly-arrived Canadians, heworked for a year on a farm. Later hewas employed by a large electricalcompany at Peterborough, Ontario,and followed up as a delivery man inanother Ontario city.

In June of this year he entered theRoyal Canadian Navy (Reserve) sohe could return to what he calls hisfirst love, music. He would be just ashappy, too, if the future would sparehim the necessity of turning in' histrumpet again.

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".=Beneath a picture of her son, Mrs. J. B.

Gray chats with Reginald L. Murphy,priIwipal of Hamp.ton Gray Memorial School,following the official openIng of the school atHMCS Shearwater October 29. (DNS-9464).

as by day so it could become a centrefor broader educational and culturalactivities in the naval community.

Mrs. Gray spoke of the two sonsshe lost in the Second World War. Shelost a younger son, Jack, in 1942when his bomber failed to returnfrom a mission over Germany: OnVJ-Day she received the news thatRobert had been killed. At that timethe family home was in Nelson,B.C.,and Jack was the first servicemanfrom that town, and Robert the last,to be killed in the war.

Mrs. Gray told the school childrenthat her sons had sacrificed their livesfor their country, but the Son of Godhad sacrificed His for the salvationof the whole wodd. Faith in God hadinspired her sons and the same faithshould be sought by all today.

Grey-haired, 65-year-old Mrs. Grayhas a daughter in Trail, B.C. -Herhusband died in January 1949. Shelives alone in a small apartment inVancouver. Commemorating theschool for her son was a great honor,she said, and added' that it meanteven more to her than when she waspresented to the Queen last year.

Chaplain (P) A. J. Mowatt saidthe closing prayer, which was ,followedby the National Anthem. Then theribbon was cut. The fly-past of 29Shearwater -aircraft over the schoolclimaxed the ceremonies.

The school has the most modernof teaching aids and is one of threeconstructed for naval dependents inCanada in 1951 and completed thisyear. Reginald L. Murphy, of Wolf­ville, is principal. He was principalof the old Shearwater school for threeyears.

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"Hammy" Gray" gave his life in anheroic and successful attack on aJapanese destroyer in Onagawa Bay.-Earlier in his career he had taken partin attacks on 'the German battleshipTirpitz hidden in a northern Norwe­gian fiord, and had bombed and sunka Japanese destroyer. He had beenawarded the Distinguished ServiceCross and had been twice mentionedin despatches "for undaunted courage,skill and determination". He was27 years old and the war was onlysix days from its close when he died.

The band of HMCS Stadacona tookpart in the ceremony and a massedchoir of 275 pupils from grades onetonine sang the Naval Hymn, underthe direction of Miss Mona Williams.

The guest speaker was Dr. L. A.De Wolfe, founder of the Nova ScotiaFederation of Home and SchoolAssociations. He challenged the youthof the school to model their lives onthose of heroes such as the late Lieut.Gray. The road to such heroism, hesaid, lay in following Christian ideals.

Mr. De Wolfe urged that thenew school be used at night as well

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Aircraft from HMCS Shearwater fly over Hampton Gray Memorial School to climax theofficial opening of the school commemorating Canada's onl~ naval VC winner of the Se~ondWorld War. The schoof, for children of service personnel statIOned at Shearwater, was officiallyopened by Mrs. J. B. Gray, of Vancouver, mother of Lieut. Robert Hampton Gray, VC, DSC,RCNVR. (DNS-9563).

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New School at ShearwaterCommemorates Naval

VC Winner

~ S naval aircraft roared overhea~~ in salute, HMCS Shearwater sHampton Gray Memorial School,named after Lieut. Robert Hampton ­Gray, VC, DSC, RCNVR, was offi­cially opened October 29 by hiswidowed mother.

Mrs. J. B. (Wilhelmina) Graysnipped a ribbon stretched across theentrance to open the 12-room, one­storev structure. Her son was awardedthe Victoria Cross posthumously aftersinking a Japanese destroyer August9, 1945. He was the RCN's only VCwinner during the Second World War.

Taking part in the opening cere­monies were senior officers of thearmed forces, government officials andschool, authorities. Members of theShearwater Home and School As­sociation, wh'o arranged the open­ing were present and their president,Mrs. Yvonne McGregor, was chair­.man of the ceremonies.

After an opening prayer by Chap­lain (RC) J. P. Belanger, CaptainDuncan L. Raymond, commandingofficer of Shearwater, spoke of thenaval career of Liel).t. Gray.

A NEW ISHlpl COMMISSIONSRCN's Basic Training SchoolAt Quebec City Becomes

HMCS d'Iberville

Television cameraman Julien St.-Geor.ges, of Radio-Canada, films a group of men at theBasic Training School as they change their cap tallies from "HMCS Montcalm" to "HMCSd'Iberville." Left to right are Ordinary Seamen Francis. Lapointe, Emile Frappier, Paul-AndreBlais and Fernand Roy. Storesman back of the counter JS PO Bernard Doucette. (0-3293).

GlIIHE navy's basic training school-JIL in Quebec City was conimissioned

October 21 as HMCS d'Iberville,commemorating the great 17th cen­tury explorer and mariner, Pierre LeMoyne, Sieur d'Iberville.

Under the command of CommanderMarcel Jette, the school opened lastFebruary and eperated in conjunctionwith HMCS Montcalm, the QuebecCity naval division. However, it wassubsequently decided to commissionthe school as a separate establishmentfor administrative reasons.

The commissioning ceremony tookplace in mid-afternoon with the ship'scompany and a guard and band drawnup in front of the establishment, in asetting of white provided by thedistrict's first snowfall.

Following prayers and the blessingof the ship by Chaplain (RC) RegisPelletier, Commander Jette addressedhis ship's company and describedsome of the exploits and achievements'of d'Iberville - "the first GreatFrench-Canadian" .

The bugler sounded the alert, theguard presented arms and the colorparty slowly hoisted a new silkWhite Ensign as the band played theNational Anthem. Thus the good ship

HMCS d'Iberville became a full­fledged RCN training establishmentunder the administrative authorityof the Flag Officer Atlantic Coast.

The name d'Iberville is proudlyrecorded in the annals of earlyCanada. D'Iberville was one of elevensons of Charles LeMoyne, whosebarony of Longueuil, P.Q. is still inexistence. Pierre was born in 1661 atVille-Marie and became a navigatorat the age of 14.

In 1686 he joined the expedition ofthe Chevalier de Troyes overlandfrom Montreal to drive the Englishfrom James and Hudson Bays. Theylaid waste the trading posts on JamesBay and returning to Quebec with50,000 beaver skins.

D'Iberville's most famous exploit,however, took place the followingyear, in the war between France andEngland in Hudson Bay, arising fromthe earlier French raids. First heswooped down on Pemaquid, on thecoast of Maine, with two men-of-warand 300 Abenaki Indians. From herehe sailed for Newfoundland, where hetook St. John's and surroundingvil!ages. The arrival of a small French

.squadron halted his siege of New-

foundland for he was handed ordersto take command and sail for HudsonBay.

There he would have had fiveFrench against four British vessels ifan ice-jam in the straits had not cutoff four of bis ships and only a singleBritish. With his single ship, thePelican (44 guns and 250 men) he metthe three British ships off Fort Nelson.Manreuvring with skill, he sank theHampshire, captured the Hudson'sBay and put the little Dering toflight. A storm then wrecked thePelican and the Hudson's Bay. Thethree missing French ships subse­quently joined him and he was ableto press home the siege with suchpersistence that the governor wasforced to surrender Fort N:elson to theFrench.

D'Iberville was also the founderand first governor of Louisiana andthe discoverer of the mouth of theMississippi river. He died of yellowfever on board ship at Havana, Cuba,on July 9,1706. In Cathedral Squareat Havana are two plaques com­memorating him, and in 1947, whenHMCS Warrior visited there, twowreaths were laid by Commodore(now Rear-Admiral) H. G. DeWolf,commanding officer of the ship.

Lady Rodney ModelPresented To Museum

A model of the SS Lady Rodney,Canadian National Steamships vesselwhich served as a troopship during theSecond World War and as such becamefamiliar to many naval personnel, hasbeen added to the collection of theMaritime Museum atop Halifax'sCitadel Hill.

The model, showing all the exteriorfeatures of the Lady Rodney to thesmallest detail, arrived from Montrealin early October and was presented toCommodore Hugh F. Pullen, Com­manding Officer of HMCS Stadaconaand chairman of the Maritime Museumcommittee, by Mr. T. G. Britten,Halifax manager of the CanadianNational Steamships, on behalf ofCaptain R. A. Clarke, General Man­ager, Montreal. .

The model, which is on loan, is thelargest in the museum's collection,which also includes models of theBluenose, HMCS St. Laurent, HMSRepulse, HMS Diomede and LordNelson's flagship, the Victory.

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Scalping PartyHMCS Quebec Took Handsome

Toll During NATOExercises

The' weather staged a show of its own during Exercise Mainbrace, as this photo, takenfrom the quarterdeck of' HMCS Quebec, illustrates. Rough seas encountered off Norway sentthe ship heeling t¢ angles of more than 30 degrees. (QB-592).

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H M CS Quebec returned to Halifaxon OCtober 9 from an eventful

six-week cruise' in the course ofwhich she transported the GovernorGeneral of' Canada to St. John's,Nfld., and took part in two majorNATO exet-dses.

The Quebec sailed from Halifaxon August 29 with His Excellencythe Rt. Hon. Vincent Massey andhis party aboard. The GovernorGeneral was bound for St. John's tocomplete a' tour of the Maritimeprovinces, his first since becomingthe Queen's representative in Canada.'After disembarking the vice-regal

party, the Quebec pointed her bowstoward the Uniteci Kingdom, arrivingiIi the Clyd'e on September 5. Duringthe crossing the Quebec encounteredsome typical North Atlantic weatherthat was q'uite a change from, thatexperienced during' summer cruisesoff the Atlantic coast of Canada andthe United States.

After a thre~-day stay in the Clydethe cruiser sailed north for Narvik,Norway, frpm where she was to begin

her role as an "enemy" raider in thefirst phase of Exercise Mainbrace,the mammoth NATO exercise inwhich some 250 warships of eightnations took part.

,The trip up Narvik Fjord was oneof the most memorable experiences ofthe cruise. The 120-mile-long fjordis extremely well lighted, with multi­colored navigation lights markingthe channel most effectively and atthe same time presenting a specta­cular scene.

While in Narvik many officers andmen saw some grim reminders ofthe past war. At the entrance tothe harbor was the hulk of HMSHardy lying on its side. At RombaksFjord were the remains of fourGerman destroyers which, had 'fledfrom the guns of HMS Warspite onlyto run aground at the fjord's end.

On Sunday, September 14, theQuebec put to sea as an "OrangeForce" raider trying to slip by amighty allied naval force which in­cluded carriers, battleships, cruisersand destroyers. Against these over-

whelming odds it was only a qu.estionof time before the Canadian cruiserwas "sunle" in this firsf phase ofMainbrace.

The "sinking" took place the secondnight out, but not before the Quebechad given a good account of herself.On one occasion the cruiser "pulleda sandy" on the cruiset USS Colum­bus. Operating with the Columbuswas HMS Swiftsure, a cruiser similarto the Que bec. While sneaking in toattack the convoy, the Quebec waschallenged 'by the Columbus. Shereplied with the Swiftsure's pendantsand was allowed to go on her merryway. However"the Columbus, after asecond thought, closed once againand flashed the challenge. In reply,the Quebec sent a salvo of torpedoesfrom 4,000 yards' range.

During the rest of Mainbrace, theQuebec was with a carrier task forcesupporting the landings in Denmark.During this phase the operationsrooms teams and other key personnelgained valuable experience.

The ship's company found timeduring this long stretch a't sea tostage a concert which was a greatsuccess. The stars of the show are toonumerous to mention but it is difficultto forget the performances of Com­missioned Bos'n William Peakman,Commissioned Gunner D. R. Hill andLdg. Sea. Gordie Munro:

On September 25 the Quebec en­tered the Firth of Forth in a howlinggale and had to anchor near theForth bridge. The next day she wentalongside in Rosyth dockyard andthe ship's company had a chancego do some sightseeing and shoppingin Edinburgh after their long hourson duty during Mainbrace. Severalof the golfers in the crew went to playa game at the famous St. Andrew'scourse - but showed a singular re­ticence when asked about their scores.

On September 30 the Quebec sailedand met the USS Wisconsin, herpartner in crime as a commerceraider in Exercise Emigrant. For theQuebec, 'Emigrant was a pronounced

'success. On Sunday, October 5, shemoved in on the convoy and pickedoff. a destroyer escorting the car­rier USS Wasp, and then the Waspherself, a most gratifying prize.

After this success, the Quebec

EGAD! WHAT NEXTIby Wessely Hicks

in The Telegram, Toronto

joined the Magnificent and the closeescort force sb.e had recently opposed.The next day she turned on herfornler partner, the Wisconsin, '\\rhichwas still an enenlY raider, and inan hour-long gunfight in the s111allhours of the lIlorning heavily danlagedher. I10wever, the Quebec herself,\\ras danlaged and by nlutual consentit Vias called a draw.

][T is with SOlue concern that Icontetnplate a radical change which

is being 111ade in naval terlUS. Itsee111S to tne that the Royal CanadianNavy is destroying some worthy,¥artilne traditions.

Just recently, orders were issuedthat the proper reply to any cOlnmandis "Aye, aye, sir." The navy frownsupon other acknowledglnents, suchas "O.I{. sir," "Very Good, sir,""Right, sir," "Good-O, sir," "Roger,sir," or "Roger-Dodger, sir."

I t seems to me that, in castingadrift such colorful terlUS in favor of"Aye, aye, sir," the navy is invitingother rebuffs to good, solid, saltytraditions.

For instan.ce, one of these daysSOlueone is going to start calling thenavy's sea-going conveyances "ships"instead of "boats". And if thathappens, the next development willbe that someone will start calling thefront, or sharp end, of such convey­ances the "bo,¥" and the blunt, orback end, the "stern".

Then it won't be long until someonestarts calling the walls of a boat the"bulkheads". And I suppose the floorwill becotne lcnown as a "deck" androotus will be known as llcabins."

Then there will develop a movementto call the back veranda a "quarter­deck", and the front porch the"fo'c'sle" .

I can evel~ foresee the word "win­dow" being dropped from naval lingoentirely. 1 he navy will insist on thewindows beil~g called "scuttles:" AndI wouldn't be a Inite atuazed if thegutters or drains becatne known as"scuppers. "

The fellows who look after thefurnaces, I guess they'll be called"stokers" .

It makes me laugh to think of it,but the first aid station in a boatnlight even be called a "sick bay".

If such an i111probablename is

The renlainder of the cruise toI-Ialifax was uneventful except thatthe Quebec arrived in port threedays ahead of the scheduled tinle asbad weather curtailed the renlainingexercises. The Quebec arrived withthe Magnificent pn October 9 to endher successful training cruise, and tobegin her refit at I-Ialifax Shipyards.-L.S.

adopted for a first aid station, thenit is not unlikely the telegratlls whichare sent bacic and forward betweenships and shore will be dubbedI 'messages".

If that ·.happens, I wouldn't beeven a little surprised if the clothingstore was called "slops" and everygunnery officer, was called "Guns."And if those nicknames are adopted,every l1lissionary who is sent out to anaval establishment will, no doubt,be called "Padre."

I dread to think that everyone whois going downstairs will say he is"going below". It sounds as thoughhe intends to walk out through thebottom'.

And, while it doesn't sound possible,someone will start calling thoseswings the sea111en sleep in "micks,"and double-decker bunks will beknown as "carts".

It tickles me to imagine it, but thefront parlor might even be known asthe "wardrootn," and the captain'slounge called a "day cabin." Some­one tuay even think of calljng thekitchen the "galley" and the atticthe "crow-snest." And every time ahard-working seaman has a slug ofrum on the house, I suppose it will becalled "a tot".

These are just a few of the dangerswhich the navy might encounter if itstarts fiddling around with old, estab­lished names and expressions. And if itdoes, no one will know what a navalman is talking about and, then, itwon't be long until the navy will beknown as "The Silent Service."

And if that happens, o~ne of thesaltiest phrases of all will be sunkforever. Never again will anyone hearan engineer officer say, as he riseswearily and starts out of the frontparlor:

. "Well, I guess I'll go down cellarand see how the furnace is doing."

EXERCISE TESTSHALIFAX DEFENCESRCN ships and aircraft, planes of

the RCAF and subnlarines of theRoyal Navy and U.S. Navy nlade athorough test of I-Ialifax I-Iarbordefences and Canadian convoy pro­tection nlethods during Exercise"Cordex" 'in the latter part of October.

The three-day exercise ended Octo­ber 24 and was judged to be "highlysuccessful" by naval authorities. Rear­Adnliral R. E. S. Bidwell, FlagOfficer Atlantic Coast, said the acti­vities had revealed sonle faults butpointed out the purpose of theexercise was to discover these. '

D\lring the exercise, the two sub­nlarines, I-IMS Artetnis and USSThreadfin, attenlpted to penetratethe ·Navy's harbor defences of I-Ialifax.The Threadfin nlanaged to get throughbut, as Rear-Adtuiral Bidwell pointedout, she would '·riot, under actualwartilue conditions, llhave got far".

During this initial phase, the 49thCoast Battery, RCA, used its six-inchguns in the Halifax approaches andfired on a supposedly surfaced subin the form of a target towed by the·auxiliary vessel Revelstoke.'

On the final day of the exercise,three naval auxiliary vessels- theEastore, Dundalk and Riverton, re­presenting a slow convoy - sailedfrOlU Halifax to a nleeting point offthe Nova Scotia coast where theywere joined by a theoretical convoyfrolu an Alnerican port.

Six RCN warships, including theMagnificent·, forlued the escort forceprotecting the convoy. The shipswere supported by aircraft of 404and 405 Squadrons frolu the RCAF'sGreen,¥ood station and by navalaircraft frolu the 30th Carrier AirGroup in the Magnificent.

The Orange or "enelny" forceconsisted of the two subtuarines.

The convoy departure was success­ful and it got away to the UnitedI{ingdonl despite the attacks of thetwo subnlarines which. thenlselveswere under attack as early as 0730 asthe convoy was heading out of port.The subs again tuanaged to get inseveral attacks on the convoy duringthe afternoon, but themselves werecounter-attacked by the surface andair units of the defending Blue force.

In addition to the IVlagnificent,five other warships took part in theexercise - HMC Ships Crescent, La11:ulloise, \'\1allaceburg, Portage andNew Liskeard.

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Looking A:stern

Fighting ,AncestorHMCS Huron Carries on Name

Made Fam.ous by Schoonerin Early Indian Wars

H ER MAJESTY'S Canadian ShipHuron, which began a new,com­

mission at Halifax on November 18,possesses a name, record and traditionof which her ship's company mayindeed be proud., Everyone knows whence this Tribalclass destroyer got her name. Wellknown, too, are her Second World Warexploits (related in the April 1950Crowsnest) and, her fine record in theKorean theatre in 1951.

Less widely known, however, is thefact that the Huron is not the firstwarship of the name to sail in Cana­dian waters. Nearly 200 years ago, onthe Great Lakes, an earlier Hurongained fame a's a fighting ship.

,The following excerpt, telling some­thing of that first Huron, is. from'Schooner Dajs, a series appe!J,ring inThe Telegram, Toronto.' The story of

.' the Huron will also be a feature of aforthcoming book, "His Majesty's Pro­vincial Marine, 1755-1813," by theauthor." .

_.bYC~I:I;:·J.sNJDE'R .Asriiall~schooner .nariI:~d Huron

was the .fir~t :western unit of theProvincial· Mariif~, that nubby acc!li-~ ".from, which:has, grow'i1 the RoyalCanadian:Na'V,y, .Her dimensions re­serribled..those: of the' present yachtKingarvie ofToronto, 60 feet on deck,16 feet beain',' seven . feet;~; depth.Beirig.shaip; she could only carry250barrels:ohiargo, but like HMCSHuron -of today she packed an.·awfulwallop. ..' .

After'much/physical and spirituousdifficulty ':(Amhersf, :. comniarider,in­chief, .had.cr.acked down on the him))our'.fi,rstHuron· .wasJaunched from:Navy Islapjf':in. the:,Niagara River in,.1762;,1list In;ti1l).e fora hectic',caree.,forgbtten:'at'mals; of -the.Provincia'l,Madriesh0'Y.',: .. ,;' >''', . - ,:

:Pontiac hgd leaguedadozeh,lndian·,tri8esirtah" effottto·thrbw off the'white'~oHar::wbich"wassttafiglingted throats. 1n a, swift stroke in 1763,he 2aptured~' nine of ·the 'lP British,western posts.' Only Niagara and'Detroit held. out. Fort Niagara onLake Ontario was not attacked, but!at theDevil"s Hoi'ebelow the falls awagon convoy of supplies, with 20-odd

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soldiers, was hurled over the bankand 'two companies of relief infantrywere slain to a man.

Detroit was attacked again andagain and besieged for six monthsand, if it had not been for a sloop anda schooner of the Provincial Marine,the garrison of 130 men would havebeen starved and slaughtered, and.Britain would have lost the whole ofthe west.

Major Henry Gladwyn, a toughBritish fighter yet in his thirties,commanded at Detroit. When thelittle Huron reached him, with herfour four-pounders, six swivels andcrew of 12~not large enough to workthem all at once-:--:Gladwyn wentaboard with reinforcements and car­ried the war into Pontiac's camp­literally. ' -

I t was blowing fresh from thenorthwest. The Huron cracked onsail till her black gun-lips kissed the

.dancing river water. Gladwyn floggedher upstream, tack and half-tack,lQng legs and short ones, with her'almost st;;mding on her ear.

. The indians saw her coming, herleaning .sails brushing the .1."iverlikewings of a wheeling gull. They hopeds~e'd. capsize;-but she didn't. They''boped she'ci,'runagrQund, when shecarne' boiling,' inshore with her bow­sprit .spe~rihg the bank-but shedidn't.,She spun 'round, her stout newsails thundering· and banging like'cannOn shots~ When she filled away,on the new t<;lck offshore Pontiac gotmore noise, and more than' noise~

. a blast: fmin everything th~ Huronha4 that would' go' off-carriage

'glrns, swivels with grapeshot, musketsand flintlock pistols.' This hurricaneslashed through the forest boughs andwrecked the redskins' camp and'village. ,. Pontiac's squaws had to move the

whole.' works.· across: the river. Heestal;>lished a· new camp behind a

. swamp on the. other side, out ofgunsho,t. He built great -fire rafts·three· times, to destroy the Huron as'she lay at anchor guarding the fort.Three nigh~s in succession her crewfended them off.

Relieved by the big fat sloopMichegon as guardship, the Huron

was sent back to Niagara for relD­forcements. She could make theround trip in a week, where theMichegon took a month.

When the Huron got back; Captain'James Dalyell and troops he hadbrought had been cut to pieces byPontiac in an ambush at the BloodyRidge above the fort. She had to goright back to Niagara for morepowder. This time on her return shewas waylaid by 350" I'ndians incanoes at the river mouth; ..-

The attack was made at night onSept. 3, as she lay at anchor waitingfor wind to drive her up against thecurrent. Her hatches had been bat­tened down, her' bulwarks wereheightened by a thick hedge of ever­greens planted upside down in holesin the .rail, and a tarred boardingnetting was triced up over her like acircus tent.

The watch saw the red flotillacoming in the dark and fired thefour-pounder into it, but the ballsflew over al.lcl the canoes swarmed inunder the bow and quarters, andtedskins went up her sides and rig­ging like ants at a sugarbowl.

Captain Horst, her master, andhis crew of 11, plied spears andpikes and cutlasses and killed 14Indians outside the netting. Butsome hacked their way through withtomahawks and a mob reached thedeck. They killed Captain Horst andtwo of the tars, and four more sea­men were knocked out with wounds.When' all seemed' lost, Jacobs, themate, roared out in Wyandot: "Blowher up! Blow her up! Blow her up!Jump for your lives! I'm shootinginto the powder!"

His surviving crew could not uncler­stand-'as was intended-but theIndians did. Wyandots, Potawatomi,Ojibways and Ottawas tumbled backinto their canoes and paddled offwithout reasoning why they hadunderstood the supposed order.

The six British tars still able tofight made mincemeat of the Indiansremaining on board. Getting a goodbreeze, they hoisted sail and camestorming up. the river in- the flushof dawn. Their hands and heads andbodies were smeared with blood and

CAYUGA TO THE RESCUE

Mr. Paul Fecteau, left, of the;Sea Cadet Committee of the Navy L.eague of Can~da, VictoriaBranch, hands over a cheque for $1,000 to two members of RCSC<;: Rambow a~ a br.lef ceremonyaboard HMCS Cayuga, whose ship's company made the. donatlC;lJI to the VI~tona sea c~detscorps. Receiving the cheque is Sea. Cadet C. Watson, whIle lookmg on are Lleut. Fred LIttle,commanding officer of the ship, and Cadet A. Lalond. (E-18580).

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clotted with gore, for the clothes hadbeen torn off their backs in the hand­to-hand struggle. The gasping gar­risOll thought the schooner had beencaptured and that Indians were usingher in a stratagem to take the fortat the water gate. British cheers andeight dead Indians under the tornboarding netting quickly reassuredthem. .

Amherst, fal- away in New York,made proclamation in the gazette ofthe "Bravery of the crew of theSchooner on Lake Erie" and eachman of the Huron was given a medalto wear around his neck on a ribbon.Officers in the fort stripped off theirown medals fOl- the purpose.

The wily Pontiac talked of buryingthe hatchet and the siege of Detroitwas lifted by degrees as his horde·went off for the seasonal hunting.But the war was not over. Pontiacshifted it to Pennsylvania. It ragedfor two years longer there, burningand slaughtering in the frontier

. settlements, panicking the peopleinto riots and reprisals and recrimina­tions, nourishing the seeds of theAmerican Revolution. But Detroitwas not molested further. The Huronhad settled that.

Jacobs, the daredevil mate, suc­ceeded to the command of the Huron.He lost the little ship and his ownlife by his recklessness. He refused totake in more ballast, being proud ofher fast passages. She capsized andwent down with all hands in a galeon the north shore of Lake, Erie.

New Type EarplugElaborate Affair

New type earplugs will soon be inuse in the RCN. With each containingten separate watchlike pieces, the plugsare a far cry from the cotton battingmost commonly used up to now toprotect ear-drums from the concussionof gunfire.

The earpiece is made either of softrubber or plastic; while the soundfilter, in capsule form, is detachable.It operates on a simple mechanicalprinciple: a tiny spring-operated valvecloses for a fraction of a second toresist annoying pressure from loudnoise, then opens instantly to permitpassage of ordinary sounds. It thuseliminates the harmful effect of loudnoises and witholds the pressurecaused by the vacuum or repercussionthat follows an explosion, while permit­ting the passage of conversation andother sounds of normal level.

It is expected the new earplugs willbe available to the fleet early nextyear. They will be issued to gunnery,TAS and visual communications per­sonnel and each ship will carry enoughextras to take care of loan issues toothers whose action stations exposethem to gun blast.

H MCS Rainbow was undoubtedlya fine ship, who did her part

in writing the early history of theRCN. However, sea cadets of RCSCCRainbow, in Victoria, may be excusedif, in their sentiments, the old Rain­bow yields first place to a destroyermore than 50 years her junior.

This preference for the present overthe past is not due to any disregardfor tradition. It is, rather, t~';e directresult of a gesture by the destroyer ­a gesture which, while it might notactually have saved the life of Rain­bow Corps, certainly went a long waytoward putting it back on its feet.

The corps, last summer, was in abad way. It owed more than $600 intaxes on its Inner Harbor property.Its wharf facilities, heavily damagedin a winter storm, required rebuilding.The band needed new instruments.Operating and maintenance expenseshad to be met. And Rainbow Corpshad no money.

The situation was partly solvedwhen officers of the corps organized a"Rainbow Carnival" that netted ap­proximately $1,900. However, theystill had to keep the books with redink, and with no relief in sight.

None, that is, until HMCS Cayuga,newly returned from her second tour inKorean waters, heard of RainbowCorps' plight. A donation of $250from the canteen fund was suggested.This was raised to $500, then, whenthe sea cadets' difficulties were fullyunderstood, was boosted to $1,000..

The donation was just what wasneeded to put Rainbow Corps backon the rails and under way at fullsteam. Taxes were paid, the wharveswere rebuilt, band instruments werebought, other charges were met and areserve was set aside for future ex­penses.

Said S. B. Marshall, chairman ofthe Sea Cadet committee of theVictoria branch of the Navy Leagueof Canada:

"This is the greatest thing thatcould have happened for the seacadets. It will provide an opportunityto build up the cadet movement here... and it will be an inspiration tothe cadets to learn how they are re­garded by the men of the fightingnavy."

Said one of the Cayuga's men, byway of explanation:

"Those kids will be doing our jobsome day."

This "family" portrait was taken when two of his "fathers," Lieut. (L) Mervyn Dunscombeand CPO Herbert Law, visited 13-year-old John Chourpouliadis at his home near Salonika,Greece. In the front are John and his younger brother Theodoros (or "Billy") ancl behind themare Lieut. Dunscombe, Madame Chourpouliaclis, "Mike", the interpreter, John's grandmotherand CPO Law.

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~ANTA Claus called early this~ year on John Chourpouliadis.

John is a 13-year-old fatherlessGreek boy who more than two yearsago was "adopted", under the FosterParents' Plan for War Children, byofficers and men staffing the RoyalCanadian Navy's Electrical School atHalifax. * .

They sent money and parcels offood and clothing to aid the boy andhis poverty-stricken little family­his mother, grandm<;>ther and youngerbrother. And in replies to John'sletters of thanks these new-found"fathers" promised that if ever in thefuture they were in ships whosetravels took them to Greece, theywould surely visit him.

The opportunity to make good thepromise came last summer, duringHMCS Magnificent's training cruiseto Europe and the Mediterranean.On board the "Maggie" were two ofJohn's "fathers", Lieut. (L) MervynDunscombe and Chief Petty OfficerHerbert Law, and when the ship put* See Crowsnest. January and April, 1951.

A Promise Is KeptTwo Canadian Navar 'Fathers'

Call on· 'Adopted'Greek Boy

into Phaleron Bay, near Athens,J uly 19, they set about makingarrangements to visit the boy.

It wasn't easy, and for a time theywere about ready to give up the idea.John lives in a suburb of Salonika,400 miles from Athens, and no meansof transportation could be found toget them there in the time available.

Then, 36 hours before the Magnifi­cent was due to leave, the BritishAir. Attache at Athens entered thepicture and, through his good offices,the Greek Air Council kindly arrangeda special flight ina DC-3.

They flew northward; seeing MountOlympus, the plains of Marathonand the island-sprinkled Aegean Sea,and landed at Sedes, near Salonika.There Lieut. Dunscombe and CPOLaw were provided with a jeep and aninterpreter.

They found John's home on a streetof humble cottages in a suburb of thecity. Their knock at the door wasanswered by an aged woman whoseemed terrified at the sight of thetwo khaki uniforms. She thought it

was the police, that something waswrong, and wildly protested thatMadame Chourpouliadis and thechildren were away and would not beback.

However, the interpreter finallymanaged to convince her the khaki­clad visitors were two of John's fosterparents from Canada. Then she toldthem she was the grandmother,brought out chairs and asked them towait for Madame Chourpouliadis andthe two boys, who would be home anymoment. .

Soon John arrived with his motherand brother. After an overwhelmingwelcome; the two Canadians wereinvited into the house, which con­sisted of a sparsely furnished livingroom and a bedroom.

Strong, black Turkish coffee wasserved and to it was added sugar, as aspecial luxury in honour of the occa­sion.

Questions by the visitors revealedthat food and clothing cost about thesame in Greece as in Canada. Child­ren'sshoes were about 75,000 drachma($6.00) a pair. School fees were three­quarters of a million drachma ($65.00)a year.

However, the total income of thisfamily, excluding Plan aid, was butthe equal of three to four dollars amonth.. Were it not for the help theygot from Canada, Madame Chour­pouliadis said, they would havestarved.

While their mother was talking, theboys were shy but eager listeners.When questions were put to John, heanswered readily. He was happy inschool and wanted to be a teacher.He was neatly dressed, pleasantmannered, and very conscious of hisresponsibilities as senior male memberof the household.

John and his brother were taken fora ride in the jeep, which for them wasa novel experience. Then it was timeto leave.

With tears in her eyes, MadameChourpouliadis thanked Lieut. Duns­combe and CPO Law and asked them.to convey her gratitude to the otherswho had "adopted" her son.

A drive back to the airport,a quickflight to Eleusis, a short drive toPireaus, and the day's expedition wasover.

NEPTUNE COMES ABOARD

On the Ontario's forecastle, Neptune's Herald (CPO James Wood) reads the proclamationannouncing that His Oceanic Majesty will come on board the next day to claim his new subjects.

And TadjJoles Become Shellbacksas HlIlCS Ontario Crosses

The Equator

while the supply officer, Commander(S) V. W. Howland, was awarded theOrder of the Stale Loaf in recognitionof his efforts on behalf of the ship'scompany.

While Neptune conferred the Orderof the Greasy Spoon on the ChiefCook, yelps of terror throughout theship told of the success of the RoyalPolice in rounding up al1 "tadpoles".The groaning Royal Chaise Bearerscarried the hefty Amphitrite to herthrone on the foc'sle where the tribu­nal was to meet.

Lieut.-Cdr. P. A. G. (Casey)Baldwin, quarterdeck officer, was thefirst to be tried, convicted and sentto his just reward. No favorites wereplayed. Al1 victims had their forelockscropped, were generously lathered,given liberal dose of "pills" anddoused in the tank.

The bears in the tank workedquickly and efficiently on the "tad­poles", buffeting each about the headand ducking them under water.

After three hours of diligent en­deavor, with the sun high above themast, not a "tadpole" remained. Allon board were "shel1backs", ful1yaccredited members of Neptune'sLegions of the Deep. - M.H. C.

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I T WAS early in the first watch onthe night of Friday, September 27.

HMCS Ontario's officer-of-the-watchpeered intently into the blackness ofthe tropical night. An air of uneasyexpectancy gripped the cruiser.

Suddenly the starboard cable rattledin the hawse pipe. A glare of lightflooded the foc'sle and there, scroll inhand, stood Davy Jones. Surroundedby a fierce royal guard, the herald ofNeptunus Rex announced that HisOceanic Majesty and his Royal Courtwould welcome the Ontario as shecrossed the "line".

At 0900 on September 28 the ship'scompany mustered on the quarterdeckand a raucous belch from a bass hornannounced the arrival of King Nep­tune and his buxom Queen Amphi­trite.

Arrayed in his imperial robe ofsackcloth, Neptune presented Cap­tain E. P. Tisdal1 with the Order ofthe Golden Fish and Chain. TheOrder of the Pusser Lamp was con­ferred on Commander Michael Stir­ling, the executive officer, so that hemight show light in dark places whilemaking rounds. Lieut. Geoffrey Bar­rick, the gunnery officer, received theOrder of the Leg-Length Gaiters,

OFFICERS ELECTEDBY SAINT JOHN NOAC

George Winters was elected pre­sident of the Saint John Branch ofthe Naval Officers' Association ofCanada at the annual meeting atHMCS Brunswicker.

Other officers are: Joseph Donahue,vice-president; Alex (Sandy) Gregory,secretary, and Ralph Marr, treasurer.Eric Caines, Robert Bishop, RobertRice, Donald Newton and Phil1ipEmmerson were named to the boardof directors.

An invitation was extended toLieutenant-Governor D. L. MacLarento accept the position of honorarypresident for another tenn.

Navy POs PayCalls On Orphans

Five petty officers of HMCS Magni­ficent gave children of two Plymouth,England, orphanages something toremember them by when their shipvisited that port earlier this year.

The petty officers were ashore oneday in Plymouth when they decidedthey'd like to do something worth­while. They got their heads togetherand came up with a plan to visit oneof the city's orphanages. Back theywent to the ship and bought up all thespare chocolate bars in the canteen.Then they headed for the Catholicorphanage, where they began dis­tributing the candy to the children.

One of the five remembered to takealong a clown suit and he staged aperformance which, according to allreports, was a big hit with the children.

The petty officers got such a kickout of the impromptu affair themselvesthat they decided to stage a repeatperformance the next day, this time atthe Protestant orphanage. This theydid, and it was equally successful.

The five were Petty Officers BruceDurdle, Breen Driscoll, George Ed­wards, Arthur Mooney and James W.Williamson.

The "search party's" report on itsmission had a sequel the next day,when a parcel of food, bought from theship's stores with money donated bypersonnel of the electrical department,was turned over, along with a sum ofmoney, to the Foster Parents' Planoffice in Athen s, to be given to J 01111.

In Canada the contents of the parcel- macaroni, sugar, flour, bacon,corned beef, canned milk and jam ­would give little cause for excitement,but on the strength of what they hadseen and heard, Lieut. Dunscombeand CPO Law were able to paint fortheir shipmates a heart-warming pic­ture of the happiness their gift wouldbring to the tiny home in NorthernGreece.--MJ. M.D.

Afloat and Ashore

For a portion 'of Exercise Mainbrace the. Qu,"bec posed as a. lone, '.'Orange (enemy~ raider'!whose job it was to elude, and at the same tlme.:harass, the m~m ~ambrace fleet. ThiS ;meantan alert look-out had to be kept, and here three: rpen cover the.lr asslgne~ sectors, searchmg forships of the "Blue" force. They are Ordi~ary Sea1Jlen Ivan CriPPS, Barne, Ont,; Don Arthurs,Saint John, N.B., and John Anderson, Lipton, S~l!k. (QB-OOO).

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ATLANTIC COAST

HMCS WallaceburgA.fter six months of being almost

constantly on the move, the ship'scompany realized with a startthat summer was over. Duringthe summer, they found themselvesin Bermuda twice, Saint John, N.B.,twice, Boston once,' and St. John's,Nfld.twice, in addition to two cruisesto the Gulf Stream area and back.

The Boston visit was theh1ghlightof the summer. The ship spent fivedays there and each afternoon was amake-and-mend. There was no officialentertainment, except for a smallreception for the officers by theCanadian Consul, but the men madeexcellent use of the Armed Services,Club, where they were given freetickets to baseball and football gamesand to current leading stage shows.Sight-seeing and pre-Christmas shop­ping rounded out the stay.

On a recent operational visit to theGrand Manan area the ship's com­pany gained first hand knowledge ofthe importance of towing forward.The impellor shaft on the ship'smain salt water intake parted, all

machinery had to be stopped andthe Crescent took the Wallaceburgin tow twice during the course of anafternoon and' night. The secondevolution was performed with thehelp of back-bone lights. By 0330next day the repairs were made goodand the tow was slipped. The Wallace­burg arrived in Halifax none. theworse about 1700 the same day,thankful that a predicted Atlanticgale had not materialized.

Refit began November 17 and theship's company proceeded on rotationleave, drafts and courses ashore.

HMCS CrescentWith the summer cruises to Europe

over, the Crescent settled down tothe somewhat less glamorous job oftaking classes from Stadacona andCornwallis to sea for training. Inthis capacity she spent ten days inthe Grand Manan area in companywith the Wallaceburg and the sub­marine USS Threadfin.

The ship's company has undergonea: considerable change since the lastreport. Lieut.-Cdr. J. R. Coulter wasa p poi n ted com man din g officerSeptember 13, replacing Captain J.

C. Littler, who became Chief ofStaff to the Flag Officer AtlanticCoast. Other officers and men havedeparted for courses and other dutiesand 30 ordinary seamen, fresh fromthe confines of Cornwallis, havearrived on board to undergo seatraining. At the conclusion of ExerciseCordex, the ship's company begantheir annual leave period.

HMCS La Hulloise"The Lady" was granted anronth

alongside for a leave period beforebeginning her fall program of exer­cises. During the leave period a'dance and smoker' for the ship'scompany were organized. The dancewas held in the ballroom of theLord'Nelson Hotel, September 16,and proved a huge success. Rear­Admiral R. E. S. Bidwell attended.The smoker was held in the Scotiangym October 17. It. was anothersuccessful evening, with the SupplyOfficer, Lieut. (S) Bruce Campbell,arranging for an adequate, supply ofrefreshments.

Officers and men were lookingforward to a busy fall of training andcruises in the Western Atlantic andBermuda waters on completion ofleave period. .

'Commu~ications S.cllool

CPO Joseph Kitson has assumedthe duties of Regulating Chief PettyOfficer in the school, having relievedCPO Arthur Howard, who is nowattending the Prep School at Naden.

:. PO H~gh Christie has returnedfrom HMCS Quebec, where he servedfor the period embracing ExercisesMainbrace and Emigrant. Also joiningthe staff was PO Kenneth Potter,from the West Coast.

HMCS CornwallisThe official opening of the Ship's

Company lVIess at Cornwallis washeld October 31 and was followed bya dance.: The mess occupies thebuilding which formerly served as theChief and Petty Officers' Mess.

Members of this new mess willinclude the staff of Cornwallis withthe rank of leading seaman an~

The cookery staff of HMCS Shearwater provided the colour escort when the Queen's Colourwas paraded 011 the occasion of the Governor General's arrival at the naval air station. Herethe colour escort, consisting of PO Ralph Mattson, CPO Cyril Preece and Ord. Sea. (A/PO) RayPease turns over the Colour to the colour party. (Ord. Sea. Pease was made an acting petty officerfor the day). Receiving the colour from CPO Preece is Lieut. E. A. Fox. Other members of theparty are CPO William Renaud, PO Daniel McCowell and PO Edward Black. (DNS-9323).

below, and men under training in theCommunications School.

Mess president is Ldg. Sea. JohnHaires, vice-president, AB JackEnsley, and secretary-treasurer, Ldg.Sea. Robert Donaldson.

HMCS PortageDuring the month of October the

Portage exercised chiefly in theHalifax area but later sailed in com­pany with the Wallaceburg, the LaHulloise and the submarine USSThreadfin :for exercises in theBermuda area.

CPO Christie Bennett left the shipOctober 21, a week before the Ber­muda trip, bound for a staff job withthe Resident Naval Overseer inKingston, On t. A fine shipmate andefficient electrical technician, CPOBennett was active in the WelfareCommittee and Benevolent TrustFund committee.

TAS SchoolThe TAS School began its winter

training program in October. A newclass of TD3s began training whileTD3 "L" course embarked in thedestroyer Crescent and minesweeperWallaceburg for two weeks' sea train­ing with the US Submarine Threadfin.

New faces on the staff and inclasses include CPO Candido Decan­dido, who has joined the staff from

Cornwallis; CPO Jack W. Jackson,from the Crescent via leave, andPO Richard H. Eldridge, who joinedTASI "G" class from HMCS Cayuga.

HMCS ShearwaterShearwater is planning a Christmas

party for dependents of personnel atthe naval air station every bit aselaborate as last year's three-daycelebration, if not more so.

This year the party will be held theafternoons of December 17, 18 and19. More than 750 children, aged 18months to 12 years, will attend thefirst two days, with a special matineeperformance for the benefit of about50 orphans from the Nova ScotiaHome for Colored Children on thefinal day.

The Petty Officers' Mess at Shear­water is taking care of the arrange­ments. The Naval Wives' Auxiliaryis selecting the gifts and the projectis being paid for through the recentKlondike Night and a cut of theprofits from the ship's canteens.

Six Shetland ponies will providerides for the kiddies, with the com­pliments of W. L. Lynch, localcircusman, who will also provide oneof his pieces of amusement apparatus.There will also be slides, movies,swings, a merry-go-round, sideshowsand attractions galore for the smallfry. And, of course, Santa Claus willarrive by helicopter and hand out

Defence Minister Brooke Claxton talkswith Ord. Sea. Thomas Thorne, of Dart­mouth, third from the right, during hisinspection of a guard mounted in his honorat the RCN Air Station, HMCS Shear­water, where the minister landed October 16to begin a three-day visit to Halifax. Mr.Claxton officially opened the new NavalResearch Establishment in Dartmouth, N.S.,and witnessed air-sea exercises in HMCSMagnificent. (DNS-9513).

the presents. His reindeer and sledare strictly out of date as far as theair-minded Shearwater kids are con­cerned.

PACIFIC COASTThe Pacific Command played a

prominent role during the visit tothe West Coast of the GovernorGeneral, His Excellency, the Rt. Hon.Vincent Massey.

HMCS Sioux provided transportfor the vice-regal party from Van­couver to Victoria, and later fromN anaimo to Prince Rupert. TheRoyal Canadian Navy at Esquimaltmounted a Royal Guard of Honorand the navy's new saluting batteryat Black Rock fired a 21-gun royalsalute.

HM CS Naden and the dockyardat Esquimalt and the CanadianServices College, Royal Roads, wereinspected by the Governor General.

His Excellency and his partyarrived in Victoria aboard the Siouxat 9:30 p.m. Tuesday, October 14,and spent the remainder of the weekin the capital city. He re-embarkedin the Sioux at Nanaimo on Sunday,October 19, for passage to PrinceRupert.

A 100-man Royal Guard fromNaden was mounted for His Excel­lency's call at the Parliament Build­ings on October 15, and for his visit

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!hebridge gives the orders,. the .upper deck handles ,the lines-and the unseen engine roomprovldes the power-when a ship slIps and puts to. sea. The photo, shows part of the engineroom staff of HMCS Athabaskan at the "stand by" position just prior to the ship's departurefor her third Korean tour. PO William Rhodes, of Vancouver, is at th~ starboard throttle,PO George Holenchuk is at the port throttle, Lieut. (E) H. F. Hindle, of Vancollver and Victoria,the engineer officer, keeps an eye on the telegraph indicator and PO Kenneth Sherman preparesto log the engine movements. (E-20774).

to the Esquimalt naval barracks thefollowing day.

At Naden, the Governor-Generaladdressed the ship's company drawnup at divisions on the parade ground.During his tour of the CanadianServices College he inspected thecadets on parade and gave a briefaddress.

HMCS AthabaskanBefore leaving for her third stretch

in the Korean war theatre, HMCSAthabaskan experienced the custom­ary pains of refit, trials and work-ups.With many of the old ship's companyeither drafted ashore or on prolongedleave, most of the strain had to be

. taken by new members of the crew.

Once the trying refit period wasover and daily drafts had broughtthe ship close to her full complement,the almost daily confusion was re­placed by well-regulated routine.

Trials gave the Athabaskan achance to flex her new muscles. Morethan 7,000 rounds of four-inch am­munition had been fired from hermain armament during her last FarEast tour and the barrels had to bereplaced by new ones. The trials

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showed that the ship had lost noneof her punch.

With almost her complete comple­ment aboard, the Athabaskan thensailed for a week's working up exer­cises in Nanoose Bay. By then hercrew included many veterans of theKorean sea war, some with previousexperience aboard the Athabaskanand others who had seen the coast ofKorea from the decks of the Sioux,Cayuga and Nootka. Thirty hands,fresh from the new entry course atCornwallis, were also aboard.

At Nanoose, the ship's companytowed forward, towed aft, riggedjackstays, secured to buoys andexercised seaboat crews, gun cre'w~,

damage control parties and so on.The Sioux arrived toward the end ofthe week and co-operated in a nightencounter exercise and torpedo firingruns.

On the return to Esquimalt, life onboard the Athabaskan became asuccession of tests of seaworthinessand fighting efficiency, followed bylast minute repairs and storing. Thenthere were final shore leaves andfarewells, and the "Athabee" was offto the Far East determined to addto her already fine record of UnitedNations service.

TAS Training CentreLieut. D. A. Crump has rejoined

the staff of the T AS Training Centrefrom his temporary appointment onthe staff of the Reserve TrainingCommander. CPO William Fernieand CPO Hugh Dunbar have leftthe school, the former returning hisHalifax home port division and thelatter going on board the Athabaskan.CPO Frank Grant, PO MyronArsenych and PO Frank Paulsen arenew members of the staff.

In the tabloid track and field meetwhich took place on September 10,the TAS-Electrical team placed third.

Winter sports activities are aboutto commence and the T AS-Electricalteams hope to improve on theirfourth-place summer Cock-of-the­Barracks finish.

Ordnance SchoolA number of changes have taken

place in the school staff during thepast two months. Two of the firecontrol chiefs, CPOs Alf Lee andKen Province, are now attached tothe Central School undergoing a~ourse in the Prep School.

Men joining the' school includedCPOs G. Corp and W. Wynn andPO J. O'Dowd from the Athabaskan,CPO Fred Pippard from Nonsuchand PO E. Hemming from Carleton.

A smoker was held in the PettyOfficers' Mess, HMCS Naden, inhonor of the ordnance branch aboardthe "Athabee." It was opened by afew words from Ordnance CommanderJ. F. Cosgrove and proved to be a

.. very pleasant occasion for all who.attended.

Another new face around thesedays is that of Ordnance Lieut.-Cdr.

Unique Medal CollectionMembers of the United Services

Institute at Halifax got a look at aunique collection of war medals at ameeting held in the gunroom in HMCSStadacona. The collection, belongingto the Hon. D. Laurence MacLaren,Lieutenant-Governor of New Bruns­wick, covers the period from theNapoleonic Wars to the Boer War.It includes the Victoria Cross, WaterlooMedal, Crimean Medal, Roberts Star,Kimberley Star, China Medal andSouth African Medal, just to name afew.

The Lieutenant Governor said themedals were originally collected byhis father and that more than 30year!, was required to complete thecollection, which today numbers morethan 100 medals kept in a speciallyconstructed case.

A number of delegates to the Commonwealth Parliamentary Association convention whichwas held in Ottawa in September visited Halifax prior to the gathering and were taken on atour of the harbor in HMCS Brockville, tender to the Halifax naval division, HMCS Scotian.Shown here on board the Brockville are, left to right; Captain R. E. Dudley Ryder, VC, RN,Ret'd., a Member of the United Kingdom Parliament; Commander W. G. Allen, commandingofficer of Scotian; Mrs. S. G. Mavalankar, Sris Chattopadhyaya, Leader of the Opposition inthe Pakistan Constituent Assembly, and the Hon. Shri G. V. Malavankar, Speaker of the Houseof the People, India. (HS-ZJ771).

H. Lukey, WIlD has come out ofretirement from the RN to help outin various duties around the school.

Hockey and bowling practices arebeing held p~riodically to select thestrongest teams to represent theschool in the forthcoming leagues.Only casualty to date is PO JoeHornosty, who is walking aroundwith a red nose resulting from acollision with a hockey puck.

Everyone wjJJ be pleased to hear'that CPO Bert Nelson, although stillin the hospital, is on the road torecovery.

HMCS Cordova

Officers and men of HMCS Dis­covery, making a Thanksgiving week­end cruise aboard HMCS Cordova,had several hours of practical seaman­ship which they had not bargainedfor when the tender visited Seattleand Bremerton, Vlash.

Lieut.-Cdr. Joe Roberts, as captain,took the ship to sea at about 1930 ona Friday evening. The smartlyturned out fOl-mer U.S. minesweepercleared Vancouver with a slight hazehanging over the harbor. However,minutes aftel- passing underneath!--ion's Gate Bridge, a heavy fog set111.

The next morning, while proceed­ing down Puget Sound, in visibilityof from 50 to 200 yards, radaroperators were reporting as many asfour or five ships, ranging in sizefrom small fishing craft and pleasureyachts to ocean-going freighters andtransports. 011 one occasion theCordova ordered both enRines stop­ped as a small ship hooted too closefor comfort. Suddenly out of thegrey fog a slim. U.S. Navy cutter slid

Scots Wrens ShowInterest In RCN

Distance would appear to be allthat keeps I-IMCS York from aninvasion of Scots lassies anxious tobecome Canadian Wrens.

When PO Edith Ross left Torontoon leave of absence to visit her father,seriously ill in Scotland, she soughtan opportunity to continue her trainingthere.

On the first evening she reported,the Scottish girls showed intenseinterest in CalJada's Wrens and theirinterest wasn't lessened by a talk shewas later asked to give.

PO Ross was flooded with queries onlength and conditions of full-timeservice, pay, uniforms (the BritishWrens haven't restyled theirs sincewartime) and life in Canada.

Word from PO Ross is that aCanadian recruiting office in Scotlandwould do a booming business.

to within 100 yards. Hands of bothships exchanged greetings.

At 1300 Saturday afternoon thefog lifted to show the ship a mile offshore with her pointed dead onPier 91, the berth allocated by thecommandant of the U.S. Navy's 13thNaval District at Seattle.

At 0600 Sunday, the ship clearedfor the U.S. Navy yard at Bremerton,where she berthed between two giantU.S. aircraft carriers undergoing re­conversion.

During the morning and the after­noon, the ship's company was takenon a conducted tour of the hugebase and was shown over an aircraftcarrier, a supply ship and a recentlyreconverted destroyer.

Against the possibility of more fog,Lieut.-Cdr. Roberts took the Cordovato sea at 1515 Sunday afternoon andafter an uneventful cruise securedbriefly at Sechelt and Port Mellon onHowe Sound before proceeding tothe former Sea Cadet camp atLatona, where the ship came along­side again and all hands enjoyed a

turkey Thanksgiving dinner, pre­pared in the ship's galley by PO D.Dowler.

The ship returned to her base andwas secured at 1620 Thanksgivingafternoon.

Five Sea Cadets were embarkedalong' with officers and men ofDiscovery for the week-end cruise.

Communications Training Centre

Without a noticeable increase incomplement, the CommunicationsTraining Centre in Naden has addeda number of new faces. Ten "new"faces are in reality "old-timers" inthe CTC, but they nevertheless pos­sess the qualifications to be termedas new.

The Officer-in-Charge, Commis­sioned Communications Officer AlbertShirley, and CPO Tom Fraser recentlyjoined HM CS Sioux as special staffwhen His Excellency the GovernorGeneral boarded the ship for a quicktrip to Prince Rupert. Although theexact duties performed by Mr. Shirley

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Reservists of the three armed services are shown drawn up before the Cenotaph followingthe Services Day Parade held during the celebration of the 70th anniversary of the foundingof Saskatoon. HMCS Unicorn played a leading part in a landing exercise staged as part of thecelebration. (Photo bry PO W. M. Stewart, Unicorn).

and CPO Fraser are not clearlyunderstood, there seems to be asudden interest in fishing around theestablishment. The expressions dis­played by the pair would seem toindicate a definite basis for thetreasonous rumor.

Seven other "new" faces around theCTC qualify to be termed as such' onthe strength of alterations and addi­tions made to their sleeves. Four ofthe seven have developed a definiteport list, and the others have taken asudden interest in walking with armsswinging. Denny Peirson, Tom Lar­kin, Anthony Veinpell and ClaytonMoran, all CVs, were recently ratedleading seamen,' while Ralf Heys,George Buckingham and AlbertBouchard each added three of thebiggest and brightest buttons to hissleeve to denote his, "Chidhood".

The tenth "new" face belongs toCPO Alfred J. Andrews and is a directresult ofa holiday trip to Mexico.

Ldg. Sea. Ron Blake, now complet­ing his discharge routine, has beenreplaced in the message center byLdg. Sea. Don Lory, formerly in theAthabaskan.

Able Seaman ... Oops ... LeadingSeaman Denny Peirson has left toserve on' board the Athabaskan,while AB William Cholodylo has leftto join the bushmen at NRS Alder­grove.

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NAVAL DIVISIONS

HMCS Unicorn(Saskatoon)

Calling of tenders for the long­awaited rifle range means that-Uni­corn will soon have an importantaddition to the division's training aridrecreational' facilities.

The 1952.,-53 training season openedearly in September and on Saturday,September 20, more than 50 officers,Wrens and men 'took part in theparade celebrating Saskatoon's 70thanniversary

In addition, Unicorn participatedin a river-crossing exercise that after­noon. The exercise was widely pub­licized and was watched by thousandsof Saskatoon residents.

Unicorn's officers and men, underthe command of Lieut.-Cdr. J. R.Strachan, staff officer, manned threeharbor craft and diesel cutters· andcarried reserve army units across theriver in an attack against an "enemy­held" beach. A company of navalcommandos aided the attacking force.

Smoke screens, low-level bombingby planes from the Saskatoon RCAFStation and effectively timed under­water demolition charges' added upto an extremely realistic display.

Approximately 20 officers from thedivision on October 6 attended a

Military Institute dinner m honorof Lieut.-General G. G. Simonds,Chief of the General Staff. After thedinner, General Simonds and othersenior officers visited aboard Unicorn.

Several months of weekend workhave borne fruit for the radio folk inUnicorn. Lacking classroom space,they decided to create their' own.They accomplished this by putting atemporary partition down the centreof the existing room. Equipment ishoused on one side, with classroomand Morse instruction on the other.All agree it's a big improvement.­J.B.W.

HMCS Queen Cha.rlotte(Charlottetown)

Lieut.-Cdr. J. J. Trainor was guestof honor at a mess dinner at KeppochBeach Hotel, Charlottetown, beforehe relinquished his command ofHMCS Queen Charlotte to take upan appointment at Naval Head­quarters. Presiding was Lieut. K. A.MacKenzie, mess president.

Guests included Brrg. W. W. Reid,Brig. G. G. K. Peake, Captain J. J.Connolly, RCN(R), Ret'd, and theofficers commanding the variousPrince Edward Island reserve forceunits.

Lieut.-Cdr. Trainor was presentedwith a brief case by Lieut. J. M.Richards <)ll behalf of the officers ofQueen Charlotte.

AB Danny Doyle has left thedivision for a QM3 Course at Stada­cona. Queen Charlotte's, genialwriter, L<;lg. Sea. Harold (Steamers)MacCullough, has been drafted toHMCS Avalon. Their replacementsare AB Donald MacKay and ABMaurice Gagnon.

HMCS Hunter(Windsor,Ont.)

Hunter launched its season in finestyle with a ship's company dance.on the drill deck OCtober 10. The'well attended affair was organized bythe welfare committee composed ofLieut.-Cdr. William Atkinson, WrenLida Kapusciak, CPO Harry D. Bondy.and AB John Marsh. Lieut.-Cdr.Atkinson acted as master of cere­monies.

The Naval Officers' Association,Windsor Branch, was host to a largecrowd at' its annual Trafalgar Ball,October 24. As usual, the event wasa great success~ .,

Great enthusiasm is now beingshown for· a weekly course in teachingtechniques being conducted by a

A birthday party marked the first anniversary of the \Vren Division of HMCS Bruns­wicker. Here Wren Katherine Forestell, the first Wren to be enrolled at the Saint john division,holds the sword while Sub-Lieut. (W) Eleanor Dolan, Wren Divisional Officer, lends a helpinghand in cutting the birthday cake baked for the occasion. Others in the picture are, front row,left to right: Wrens Carole Smith, joan Sherren, Barbara Fitz Randolph, Dorothy Fraser', AnnAshton, Lois Morrison, Dawn MacFarlane and Anne Fullerton. Rear row: Petty Officer RoseGalbraith and Vhens Mildred Weeds, Peggy Young, Florence Witherall, Eileen Connell,Barbara Forestell and Helen Allaby.

professor from 'Vayne University inDetroit. The 16-week course is beingheld every Thursday, and it is felt itwill be most beneficial.

'Vednesday sports nights, underthe charge of Sub-Lieut. Bob Mac­Arthur, are proving a popular feature.The hockey team started practicingat the Windsor Arena October 15and gear has been issued. There isalso a badminton tournament inprogress. Archery is being taught andthere are enough basketball playersfor two teams.

Lieut. (W) Gladys Tunks reportsthat recruiting is going well for theincreased '~Trell complement of 45.

HMCS Brunswicker(Saillt john, N.B.)

Even the forests of New Brunswickwere hospitable when two destroyerescorts, the USS Snyder and Kyne,called at Saint John in October.

A hunting party for the visitingships was organized by CPO JamesJohnson of Brunswicker, and sevenAmericans, ranging in rank fromCommander to Seaman 1st Class,emerged from the woods with twofine deer.

A reception and dance were heldfor officers of t11e U.S. ships in Bruns­wicker's wardroom, while a well-

attended dance held at the same timefor enlisted men proved a greatsuccess.

The first anniversary of the returnof the 'Vrens to Brunswicker wascelebrated on October 10 with abirthday party and dance in theWrens' mess. The cake was cut witha naval cutlass.

HMCS York(Toronto)

A church parade was held October19, the Sunday before Trafalgar Day.The parade, approximately 525strong, was made up of officers,Wrens and men of the Toronto navaldivision, members of the Naval Offi­cers' Association and Naval Veterans'Association from the Toronto areaand sea cadets. York's trumpet bandled the parade.

After the service the naval unitstook part in a march past at whichthe salute was taken by Vice-AdmiralE. R. Mainguy, Chief of the NavalStaff.

York's first drill night of the falland winter season was recorded andlater broadcast by CKFH, Toronto,as a 30-minute program. Ceremonialdrill was carried out with the Yorkband and guard participating. Actionstations and fire drill followed.

HMCS York's own recruiting film,"The Royal Canadian Navy Reserveand You", had its premiere the sameevening and was followed by twoboxing matches between members ofthe ship's company.

At quarters, shooting trophies werepresented to, CPO Leonard Ruther­ford, representing the Gunnery Divi­sion, by Mr. Tim O'Leary, WarrantMaster-at-Arms during the SecondWorld War and a fonner Yorkreservist. The large trophy will bedisplayed on the quarterdeck, whilethe smaller will be retained by thewinners.-A.C.T.

HMCS Cataraqui(Kingston)

Though not provided for in theplans, a naval commando unit fromHMCS Cataraqui made its appear­ance in a combined operations schemecalled "Operation Mohawk" at theend of September and helped anarmy landing party to victory.

Beside personnel from Cataraqui,participants in the scheme includedairmen from the RCAF station atTrenton and the 9th ,Anti-TankRegiment with headquarters in Belle­ville. The soldiers were embarked inHMCS York's PTC 716, HC 311 andthe tug Loganville and were trans­ported from Belleville to the landingarea near Deseronto.

RCAF Harvards and Mustangsattacked and their dive-bombing pro-'duced some hits with flour-filledpaper bags. Mohawk Airport wasseized on schedule by the attackers,who included the unexpected navalcommandos.

The Chief and POs' Mess is inoperation again after a two-yearholiday due to a shortage of members.The mess was renovated, in prepara­tion for the re-opening, by CPOCharles D. Emsley and CPO CharlesA. Vaughan.

HMCS Discovery(Vancouver)

A highly successful blood donorclinic held in Discovery saw 186members of the division turn out asvolunteers.

The Red Cross arranged what itthought was a sufficient number ofbeds, but the response was so greatthat they had to send out a rush callfor more equipment and staff. Thedonation session, held on a drillnight, was arranged by Ord. Sea.Ted Roach, president of the Seamen'sMess.

Ord. Sea. Jimmy Smith hasassumed duties as stoker on the RCN

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The Chief of the Naval Staff, Vice-Admiral E. R. Mainguy, took the salute when personnelof HMCS York carried out a march past following a church parade on the Sunday prior toTrafalgar Day. Here the Wren division from York marches past the saluting base. Members ofthe Toronto division, the NOAC, the Naval Veterans' Association and sea cadets attencled theservice. .

staff at Discovery following a transferfrom HM CS Naden.

First of a series of monthly dancesin the seamen's mess has been heldsuccessfully and plans are under wayfor the second. Meantime, committees£i'om the. wardroom, Chief and POs'Mess and the Seamen's Mess are atwork lining up the annual Christmasparty staged early in December eachyear for the children of RCN andreserve personnel at the base as wellas orphaned and needy children offormer naval officers and men.

Lieut. (W) Fanta Tait, RCN(R),has assumed her duties as AssistantStaff Officer (Administration) andwill. work with Lieut. James Butter­field, staff officer.

A divisional officers' conference,with Lieut.-Cdr. Peter Hinton ofOttawa in the· chair, was held inDiscovery, while for three days DVAwelfare counsellors and the Benevo­lent Trust Fund western claimscommittee were also in conference,with Lieut.-Cdr: Ralph Wallacepresiding.-W,J.H.

HMCS Nonsuch(Edmonton)

The fall social season for the threeservices in Edmonton was opened bythe annual Trafalgar Ball at HMCSNonsuch, with the commanding officerand officers of Nonsuch and theNaval Officers' Association as hosts.

The ball, held in a nautical settingon the division's drill floor, was underthe distinguished patronage of theLieutenant-Governor of Alberta, HisHonor J. J. Bowlen. Among the400 gu~sts were Mayor WilliamHawrelak and Mrs. Hawrelak, andChief Constable Reg Jennings andMrs. Jennings.

In charge of arrangements wereLieut.-Cdr. Frank Banwell, chairman;Commander Lyle Hoar, CommanderEverett Shaver, Lieut. Stuart Purvisand Lieut. (SB) Ed Howard, pub-licity. .

The annual autumn dance of thechief and· petty officers was alsoheld in th~ drill hall, with the com­manding officer, Commander GeorgeManning, and Mrs. Manning aspatrons. About 250 guests attended.The program was arranged by CPOWalter Curry, CPO Harry Roebrock,PO Frank Quiring and PO WilliamColter. .

The first naval reservist fromNonsuch to serve in the Korean wartheatre has departed for the FarEast in HMCS Athabaskan. He isOrd. Sea. David O. Campbell· and he

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is serving as an electrician's mateaboard the destroyer. A native ofProvost, Alberta, Ord. Sea. Campbellhas spent most of his life in Saskatoonwhere he joined the reserve at HMCSUnicorn in 1949. He made a cruise tothe Caribbean in HMCS Magnificentin 1950 and transferred to Nonsuchabout a year ago.-E. W.H.

HMCS Chatham(Prince Rupert)

Autumn highlight of activities atHMCSChatham was the visit ofthe Right Hon. Louis St. Laurent,Prime Minister of Canada.

Mr. St. Laurent and his partyarrived in Prince Rupert by air fromPowell River on Sunday, September7. After speaking to an assembly ofschool children, he attended a recep­tion at Chatham where he inspectedan honor guard from RCSCC Cap­tain Cook.

During the reception, the PrimeMinister was presented with an honorscroll from Indian chieftains of thePrince Rupert area and with abeautiful slate totem from the lODE.

Wrens of Chatham division earnedpraise for their skill in ushering thecrowd, which at one point in thehour-and-a-half reception reached apeak of more than 600 persons.

With the opening of the fall train­ing season, Chatham has become abusy place. New entries are arrivingin increasing numbers, the Men'sMess has been reorganized and officersof the division have held an invitationball. The scope of training has beengreatly increased by the addition ofnew MTE and wireless equipment.

PO Bob Bradley, who made manygood friends during his stay atChatham, has gone to the East Coastfor a Quarters Rate course. He hasbeen replaced by PO Bob Fitz­simmons, who came directly fromHMCS Sioux, in which he had servedsince she was re-commissioned.

Chatham's staff officer, Lieut. NoelLangham, has also left for the EastCoast, where he is taking the JuniorOfficers Technical and LeadershipCourse. He has been succeeded byLieut.-Cdr. J. Pearson, who came tothe division from Naval Head­quarters.

Two new officers have been wel­comed. They are Acting Sub-Lieut.(W) Diane Kennedy, who came upfrom Chatham's lower deck, andActing Sub-Lieut. (S) Jack Evans.

HMCS Donnacona(Montreal)

The fifth and one of the mostsuccessful of the Trafalgar Ballssponsored by RCN (R) and formernaval officers of the Montreal areawas held on HMCS Donnacona'sdrill deck on October 24, with Vice­Admiral E. R. Mainguy, Chief of theNaval Staff, as guest of honor.

Navy Day was observed the pre­vious Sunday. Donnacona personneland sea cadets marched through thestreets of Montreal to the salutingbase in Phillips Square where thesalute was taken by the division'snew commanding officer, CommanderG. St. A. Mongenais.

Members of the ship's companyand the Ladies' Auxiliary visited the

Veterans' Hospital and distributedgifts and books to the patients.

The Ladies' Auxiliary held its firstmeeting of the season on October 22.Plans for the forthcoming NavalParty were drafted and social andwelfare activities were discussed.

Remembrance Day ceremol1ies tookplace in \iVestmount on Sunday,November 9, with Navy, Army andAir Force participating. The paradeformed up at the Royal MontrealRegiment Arm ory and a brief cere­mony was held at the \iVestmountCenotaph.

The previous night the Chief andPOs' Ladies' Auxiliary sponsored R

social evening in the Chief and POs'mess. Officers elected by the auxiliaryat the recent annual meeting were:Mrs. R. Mc'iVilliams, president;Mrs. G. Lavery, vice-president;Miss H. NicolJis, secretary; Mrs. J.Bates, treasurer, and Mrs. C. Rankin,Mrs. J. Cartlidge and Mrs. MacInnes,members of the executive committee.-R.F.D.S.

HMCS Tecumseh(Calgary)

Calgary's winter social season wassuccessfully launched by the TrafalgarBall, sponsored by the Naval Officers'Association, 011 October 24.

The following week the Ship'sFund Committee staged a Hallowe'endance, with PO J. Robertson incharge of arrmlgements. Prizes weregiven for the best men's and women'scostumes.

Lieut.-Cdr. Ross Dickinson hasrelieved Lieut.-Cdr. James S. Mon­teath as Staff Officer (Administration)at Tecumseh. Lieut.-Cdr. Monteathand Mrs. Monteath were honored bythe wardroom and ship's companybefore the former left for the EastCoast to take the JOTL course.­C.SJ.L.

HMCS Scotian(Halifax)

The proximity of the sea and theRCN Air Station, HMCS Shear­water,gave Wrens of HMCS Scotianunequalled opportunities for summernaval training this year.

Favored by fine weather, \iVrensturned out on Thursday eveningsfrom July to September for boatpulling in Halifax harbor under thedirection of Commissioned Boats­wain C. P. Evans.

Air' Qranch V","ens attended classesat Shearwater and were given flightsin Harvards and helicopters. Theyalso had a close-up view of the U.S.Navy blimps which visited Shear-

Ordnance Lieut. P. C. Buzza, of Winnipeg,turns over the care of a patch of Canadianwheat to "O'Malley", a 14-year-old Korean,on leaving the island on which he spent two­and-a-half months as naval liaison officerwith the West Coast Island Defence Element.Lieut. Buzza, ordnance officer of HMCSIroquois, planted the wheat from a jar ofprize seed from his father-in-Iaw's farm inManitoba. (IR-119).

water early in July and heard alecture on the place of the lighter­than-air craft in air-sea warfare.

Scotian's recruiting officer, Lieut.R. G. Cannell, has launched a re­cruiting drive for reservists. A com­petition has been started with a prizefor the mess which introduces themost prospective recruits.

WEST COAST GETSFIRE DRILL FRESH-UP

A program aimed at promotingincreased vigilance on the part ofnaval personnel, residents of ilavalmarried quarters and civilian per­sonnel employed with the Navy wascarried out by the Naval Fire Serviceof the Pacific Command during FirePrevention Week October 5-11.

Posters were displayed throughoutthe command and other steps weretaken to stress the dangers of fireand to train personnel in fire pre­vention.

At the dockyard, a lecture anddisplay were conducted for civilianemployees and major buildings werethoroughly inspected.

In HMCS Naden, fire drillpractices were held in all barracksbuildings during the silent hours,another lecture was given civilianpersonnel and major buildings wereinspected.

At Royal Roads, two fire evacuationdrills <lnd a lecture were conductedand civilian employees at the College,as well as at the RCN magazine,boom defence and fuel oil depot, weregiven a talk and issued with bookletson fire prevention.

House to house calls were made atthe 371 married quarters at BelmontPark and a booklet was left at eachone. Children attending the JohnStubbs Memorial School at BelmontPark were put through a test firedrill.

Not forgotten was the Victorianaval division, I-IMCS Malahat,where a fire drill was held on theweekly parade night.

Booklets were distributed to navalestablishments in other parts of B.C.·-G.R.L.

LETTER TO THEEDITOR

Dear Sir:The cap controversy is proving an

interesting one and I feel that theletter in your Septembel' issue demandsan answer.

I do not deny that the cap issmart in a sense, but I insist that itis antiquated. This is not meant as aslur upon the traditions connectedwith it, but as a criticism of theold-fashioned design that cares nothingfor comfort, convenience, neatnessand originality. Canada has seen fitto break from older ties in manyways. vVhat is so terrible about askingfor a distinctive badge for her Navy?

Our friend remarks on the cap'sneatness. Certainly it is neat - afterhours spent in cleaning it. Has he, Iwonder, ever stood for inspection inthe rain, with white polish dribblingover his tally?

V\That we need is a washable, strongand serviceable cap, and there is noneed to copy the Americans, as is sodelicately hinted.

~-Iarry F. Verran ABPH1,HMCS Avalon,St. John's, Nfld.

Real Spirit ShownBy These Reserves

Twenty per cent of the officers andmen of HMCS Cataraqui make roundtrips of as much as 140 miles to attendMonday night drills in Kingston.

The much-travelled re~E'ITists arefrom Trenton, Belleville, Napanee andBrockville. A dozen or so of theirnumber have been commuting faith­fully on training nights for the pastthree winters.

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CORONEL REMEMBEREDService Held in Honor

Of First RCN WarCasualties

A wreath·commemorating the first members of the RCN to lose their lives in war wasdropped on the sea from HMCS Ontario in waters off Chile where four Canadian midshipmenwent down in HMS Good Hope at the Battle of Coronel in 1914. (OT-1235).

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A WREATH dropped on the~heaving loneliness of the SouthPacific Ocean was the tribute paid byHMCS Ontario, during her SouthAmerican cruise, to the memory of thefirst four members of the Royal Can­adian Navy to lose their lives in action.

The ceremony took place onOctober 10, almost 38 years after anoutgunned British cruiser squaclronengaged a German squadron off CapeCoronel on the west coast of SouthAmerica.

The Battle of Coronel was foughton November 1,1914. The four Cana­dians who lost their lives were Mid­shipmen Malcolm Cann, William A.Palmer, Arthur W. Silver and JohnV. W. Hathaway, all serving in theflagship, HMS Good Hope.

The whole class of RCN midship­men had volunteered to serve in thecruiser and drew lots to see whowould go. Left behind was Midship­man G. C. Jones, lat~r to becomeVice-Admiral G. C. Jones, CB. Hedied on February 8, 1946, while Chiefof the Naval Staff.

The British cruiser squadron, com­manded by Rear-Admiral Sir Chris­topher Cradock, consisted of theGood Hope, two light cruisers, theMonmouth and Glasgow, and the

.armed merchant cruiser Ottanto.The German squadron which they

encountered was under Admir~1 GrafVon Spee, in his flagship the Scharn­horst. The flagship was accompaniedby the equally powerful Gneisenauand three smaller cruisers, the Leipzig,Dresden and Nuremberg.

It was sundown when the Britishsquadron came on the German shipsand, as they turned to meet theGermans they were silhouettedagainst the western sky and spraybroke over their bows, making .itimpossible to use some of the lowerguns.

.Admiral Cradock, aware of theheavier guns of the enemy, never­theless chose to attack. In the three­hour battle that followed, the GoodHope was badly hit and later blewup and sank. The Monmouth fol­lowed her to the bottom. The Otranto

was too heavily outgunned to takean important part in the battle andshe and the Glasgow withdrew to thesouth and headed back to the Falk­land Islands.

Coronel was avenged on December8, 1914, in the Battle of the FalklandIslands. Vice-Admiral Sir FrederickSturdee, in command of anotherBritish .squadron, sank four of thefive German ships. The swift cruiserDresden. fled and, in March, 1915,was found and destroyed in Cumber­land Bay, on the coast of Chile, byHM Ships Kent and Glasgow.

The memorial service to the fourmidshipmen took place on theOntario's quarterdeck, where prayerswere offered by Protestant andRoman Catholic padres. The officerof the guard, a midshipman, ordered"present arms" while the ship's bandplayed the band version of the LastPost. Captain E. P. Tisdall and twomidshipmen dropped a wreath uponthe sea. .

Reveille was sounded, the handsdispersed and the ship proceeded onher journey, leaving the wreath tos­sing in the white wake.

Later in their South Americancruise, the officers and men of theOntario were to see a sardonicmonument to Admiral Von Spee.· InMontevideo harbor lies· the rustinghulk of the pocket battleship GrafSpee, scuttled. rather than put to seaand again face the lighter guns ofthe cruisers Exeter, Achilles andAjax.

East Coast ProgressLauded by CNS

A reminder that the function ·of .shore establishments is to keep theNavy's ships sailinK and aircraftflying was given by Vice-Adm\ralE. R. Mainguy, Chief of the NayalStaff, in a message following his visitto the East Coast. . .

"During my recent visit I wasencouraged to note the progress beingmade in all shore establishments andto observe the growing keenness andpride in the service," Admiral Mainguysaid.

"We must all remember, however,that the only .reason for ·shore estab­lishments is to have and maintainefficient ships and aircraft at sea andevery effort must be directed towardthis end."

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The inter-part soccer championship at HMCS Shearwater was won by the Chief PettyOfficers' team pictured above. Front row, left to right: CPOs A. Coe, Halifax; J. Sellers, RN,Durban, S.A.; C. Shieldon, RN, Gosport, Eng.; D. Baker, RN, Margate, Eng.; C. Gillen,Halifax, and B. Clifford, Halifax. Rear row: CPOs G. Bussey, Halifax; C. Hines, Calgary;R. Hogg, Leaside, Ont.; A. Chartren, Peterborough, Onto ;)-1. Clark, Chester, N.S.; N, Mocline,Halifax, and,R. Dopchack, Winnipeg. (DNS-9438). •

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Supply Teams TieFor Barracks Trophy

Supply Naden and Supply School"A" tied for top place in the Nadensummer Cock of the Barracks trophycompetition, both with a total of34 points.

On completion of softball, medleymarathons and track and field, onlyfour points separated the top fourteams in the overall standing. Soccerwas the final and deciding factor andwas won by Supply School "A" withan undefeated record through thetournament. The ten points awardedfor first place in soccer brought theSupply School team on a par withSupply Naden in the final scoring forthe inter-part trophy.

Winter Sports LeaguesStart at Stadacona

The inter-departmental wintersports program at HMCS Stadaconaopened at the end' of Octoberwith the playing of first scheduledgames in basketball, volleyball, waterpolo, hockey and bowling leagues.

In all more than75 teams, composedof over 500 players, are taking part inthe program which will determine the

winner"of the" Cock of the Barracks""". ~-trophY'2next spring. In addition to

the· over-all trophy, individual cups. will be presented to each league

champion,. Other events scheduled' for the

winter are tabloids of sports, medleymarathons, swimming meets and

.possibly deck hockey.Largest team entry is in the bowling

league, which has 28. Hockey andbasketball have 12 each, volleyballhas 13 and water polo ten.

Three Straight VictoriesFor Navy Soccer Team

The RCN soccer team, defendingchampion in the B.C. Tri-ServiceSoccer League, started off the currentseason with three wins in as manystarts.. The opening game saw the RCN

eleven def~at the Canadian Armyteam from Gordon Head by a 5-0score.

In the second fixture Navy ranroughshod over Royal Roads, scoring11 goals and allowing the cadetsonly one.

The RCN won the third game froma strong RCAF team by a 2-0 margin.

Chiefs Capture AirStation Soccer Title

The Shearwater inter-part soccerleague completed a successful seasonwith the Chief Petty Officers winningthe championship. The Chiefs Wonthe two-game total goal series fromSNAM by 5 to 2, defeating the AirMaintenance team 3-0 in the secondgame after being held to a 2-2 tie inthe first.

The Shearwater soccer team lostout to Sydney i~ a twu"gametotal­goal final for the Nova Scotia cham­pionship. The first game' ended in a2-2 draw and Sydney squeezed out a2~1 win in the second. It was the firstdefeat of the season for the navalairmen. In an exhibition game playedlater, Shearwater tied the Maritimechampions, RCAF Summerside, 1-1at Shearwater.

Naval Airmen TakeBaseball Championship

The baseball team of HMCS Shear­water won the Nova Scotia ArmedForces championship ,by defeatingRCAF Greenwood 14-10 and 14-4in a best-of-three final series.

The Shearwater team earlier hadeliminated HMCS Cornwallis in twostraight games in the semi~finals..

In inter-part softball atShearwater,the RCAF won the championshipby def€ating the Officers' team in thefinal. Eight teams entered the playoffsand the highly favored Civilian entrywhich had topped the league standingswas eliminated.in the early stages ofplay.

The RCAF won the 'first game ofthe final 15-10, lost the second 20-15and won third by a 7-6 score.

Navy Outscores Armyin Softbalf Contest

HMCS Stadacona retained pos­session .' of the Army and Navyofficers' softball trophy as they de­feated an Army team in a game playedat Stadacona.

The two teams battled to an 11-11tie in what was scheduled as a suddendeath game, forcing a second todecide the championship. In this onethe RCN team scored in all but oneof the seven innings to win handily.

Stad Setting Pacein Football League

HMCS Stadacona held a comfort­able two-gam~ lead and appeared tohave first place clinched as the NovaScotia Canadian Football Leagueentered its last phase. The Stadaconagridders had a record of five wins insix starts to lead second-place Shear­water, who had a 3 and 3 record.

HMCS Cornwallis, the other RCNentry in the live-team league, wasin third spot with three wins and fourlosses. Dalhousie University andDartmouth Arrows, the other twoteams in the league, were tied forfourth but the University studentshad played only five games to six forDartmouth.

Playoff berths would go to thefirst foui- teams.

Football action is caught by the camera in this photo of line play during a game betweenCornwallis Cougars and Stadacona. (DB-1952).

D01l11OCOna Enters Teamin Lachine Hockey Loop

Plans for an inter-service hockeyleague in the Montreal area fellthrough because ice was not available,but HMCS D011l1aCOna is representedin the Lachine I nd ustrial and ServiceHockey League.

Donnacona is up against teamsfrom Dominion Bridge, RCAI' St.Hubert, RCAI' Lachine and Allis­Chalmers. The first practice was heldin the Lachine Arena on November 5.

Volleyball is destined to play animportant part in the Montrealdivision's winter sports program.Practice sessions are held \Nednesday

The softball league of the DockyardRecreational Association at Esquimalt woundup its season with the "Office Odds", skip­pered by Cecil McRae, taking top honors.Here Mr. McRae is shown with the softballtrophy and Commodore B. R. Spencer,Superintendent of the Dockyard, who madethe presentation. (E-20743).

evenings and Saturday afternoons,with special instruction for beginners,including Wrens. AB Bill Croll issupervising volleyball activities.

Coach Harry Segal reports increas­ing numbers turning out to Wednes­day and Saturday basketball sessions.He has his eye on the Golden BallTournament and hopes to assemble ateam that is a winner.

The Royal Canadian Navy's lonerepresentative at last summer's Bisleyshoot in England, PO Ken Fox, waspresented by Commander G. St. A.Mongenais, commanding officer ofDonnacona, with the Donegal Medaland the Queen's Hundred with at­tached Bisley badge. The presentationwas made on a drill night before theship's company.

PO Fox placed 12th among 4,000competitors from every part of theBritish Commonwealth. He and POR. D. Denman have offered to givemarksmanship il1struction to anymembers of the division who wish toturn out on Saturday afternoons andimprove their shooting.

Captain Dillon HeadsStad Badminton Club

The Atlantic Command BadmintonClub was re-organized and re-namedthe HMCS Stadacona BadmintonClub at a meeting held at the Stada­cona gymnasium.

Officers elected for the forthcomingterm are: President, Capt. (S) C. J.Dillon; secretary, Lieut. (W) NanMcPhee, and treasurer, AB G.Flowers. The games committee con­sists of Lieut. H. W. Markle, Sub­Lieut. (MT) J. C. Ross and Miss

Betty Bowers. The entertainmentcommittee includes Sub-Lieut. (MN)S. B. Allison, Mrs. H. Jackson and:l\-1rs. R. Ley.

The club will be open to all RCNpersonnel in the Command and theirdependents, and play will take placeeach Thursday and Sunday.

Calgary Division FormsSeven Curling Rinks

The roarin' game has become apopular sport with the navy inCalgary. Seven rinks have been or­ganized by Chaplain W. J. Collett atJ-IMCS Tecumseh and will curl ontwo sheets of ice at the CalgaryCurling Club on Satlirday mornings.

Badminton; too, has assumed aprominent role in Tecumseh's wintersports program. The drill deck istaken over by badminton players onevery free occasion, with about 30officers, Wrens and men playingregularly.

Hockey, Rifle ShootingOrganized at Scotian

A lively hockey season is in storefor HMCS Scotian, the sports of-ficer,Lieut. W. A. Burkart, reporting that ahockey team is shaping up in eachmess.

The other main competitive sport ofthe winter season will be rifle shooting.Teams are already turning out forweekly practice. The Wrens, underthe instruction of Lieut. G. H. Cook,are preparing to challenge male supre­macy in marksmanship, even thoughmany of them have never shot arifle before.

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A softball team composed of Wrens under training in HMCS Cornwallis captured the 1952championship of the Ladies' Western Annapolis Valley softball league. Front row; WrensPatricia Rhatigan, Edmonton; June Buchanan, Napanee, ant.; Doreen M. Koebel, Merritt,B.C. and Laverne Runge, Regina. Second row; Wren Monica Madden, Toronto; PO ClarenceR. Manderson, Charlottetown and Montreal; Wren Agnes Englund, Liliooet, B.C.;Lieut.-Cdi.W. R. Inman, Charlottetown, sports officer, and Wren Eleanor Smith, Regina. Rear row;Wrens Lorraine Butle" Saskatoon; Jean Barret, Lqndon, ant.; Shirley Loeffler, Windsor, ant.;Lily Arnold, Toronto; Dorothy LeGrandeur, Edmonton, and Eleanor Charade, Montreal.(DB-1974).

Winter Sports ScheduleBegins at. Shearwater

The winter .. sports schedule atHMCS Shearwateris well underwa,y,though movements of the air groupshave made it· necessary to divideinter-part schedules into two sections- before and after Christmas - toenable the groups to enter the post­Christmas competitions.

The officers' volleybaJI· . leagueopened October 15. The seven teamswill be joined after Christmas by atleast two from the air groups. Theinter-part It~ague, which started Qcto­ber 20, boasts 16 teams now-and willget an additional four iIi the NewYear. The basketball league has 11teams at' present and later will beincreased to 13. Three teams, twointermediate and one' junior, areentered in city basketball leagues.

Shearwater entered a hockey teamin the Halifax-Dartmouth interme­diate league this year and 11 teamsstartedinter-f.lart play the first weekin November at the DartmouthMemorial. Rink. The groups willproyide an additional two in the newyear. CPO Charles Hines has started

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an inter-mess league on the station.The wardroom and CPOs' and POs'messes at Shearwater and messes inother ships and establishments in

.. Halifax will battle it out everySunday at the rink.

York Pucksters Enter. Service Hockey League

Opening of the National HockeyLeague season in Toronto was astimulus to HMCS York to makeplans to enter its own Navy team inthe hockey wars.

Teams from Falaise Barracks, theRCMP; RCAF and York will tangle~eekly in doubleheaders at eitherScarborough or Weston Arenas.Regular skating and practice scheduleshave been drawn up to keep the

. York pucksters in top trim.CPO Bob Crisp is coach of the

Toronto sailors and has some highcalibre material on hand.

York's softball season ended with aworld series flourish. The RCN (R)team overran Dominion Customs intwo straight games' in the semi­finals of the Dominion Civil Se.rvice

Softball League (Toronto) then cameup against the Westsides Post Office,twice city champions, in the final.

They split the first two games,Post Office winning the first 9-6 andNavy the second 9-4. In the decidinggame the score was 4-4 in the lasthalf of the ninth with Post Office atbat, two out and a man on third.A hit over second base. scored therunner from third, and Post Officewas again champion.

Two lively exhibition boxing boutswere part of the special entertainmentoffered on the opening night of the falltraining season at York. Participantsin the first of the well-matchedthree-rounders were Ord. Sea. RonNugent and Dave DiMarco, whileLdg. Sea. Charley Gailorand ABDennis Popa flailed each other in thesecond. - D.P.

Command Soccer TourneyWon by Shearwater

HMCS Shearwater won the Atlan­tic Command soccer championshipand the Sak's Tr()phy by defeatinglast year's titleholder, HMCS Corn­wallis, 2-0 in a sudden-death finalat the Stadacona playing field.

The Shearwater eleven had ad­vanced into the final of the three-daytournament by overwhelming theMagnificent 10-0 and then scoring ahard fought 4-2 win over Stadacona.Meanwhile Cornwallis drew a byeinto the semi-final and trouncedHMCS Brockville6-0 to qualify forthe final.

Midshipman Brian Evans sentShearwater ahead in the title matchat the eight-minute mark and Ldg.Sea. Denis James notched the secondgoal in the second half. Outstandingfor the naval airmen throughout thetournament were CPO Philip Baker,captain and coach, PO Robert Collier,left wing, and Ldg. Sea. RobertAllen, who played the first two gamesat centre forward and the last game ingoal.

Cornwallis to Competein Valley Hockey Loop

Skating and hockey practices areonce again under way at HMCSCornwallis and candidates for thehockey team which will wear thecolors of the Cornwallis Cougars arerounding into shape. The team willagain be entered in the Valley HockeyLeague.

President of the Cougars is Com­mander (S) B. F. Gore1y and coachis Commissioned Wri ter Officer EldonDarrach.

Members of the Communications School team which won the baseball championship ofHMCS Cornwallis this year are pictured here. Front row, left to j'ight: Ordinary Seamen JimSimpson, Belleville, Ont., and John Brown, Edmonton; Commander R, W. Murdoch, Victoria,officer-in-charge of the school; AB Don Reisenburg, Montreal, and Ord. Sea. A (Whitey)Church, Windsor, Onto Second row: Ord. Sea. Jerry Avis, Hamilton, Ont., AB Robert LeBlanc,Sydney, N.S.; Ldg. Sea. John Sandford, Brantford, Ont.; Ordinary Seamen 'Clive Sutcliffe,Cabri, Sask., and Ray Zillman, Winnipeg. Third row: Ordinary Seamen George Murfin, Calgary;William Freeman, Windsor, Ont.; Ken Whitney, New Toronto, Ont.; Bob Robertson, Windsor,Ont. Fourth row: Ord. Sea. George Friis, London, Ont., and AB Jack Grosvenor, Toronto.(DB-1962). .

Just before the Cornwallis athletesturned their attentions to skates andhockey sticks, they entertained thesoccer team of the Royal Navysubmarine Artemis. The submarinersproved too strong for the locals, whowent down to a 5-2 defeat.

Chiefs and POs WinPortage Sojtball Title

The Chief and Petty Ofncers' teamwon the departmental softball cham­opinship of HM CS Portage, defeatingthe Stokers 8-3 in the final game.CPO Harry Lane, veteran of 23years' naval service, was the winningpitcher. The ship then focused itsattention on basketball until theopening of the hockey season.

Naden BadmintonClub Begins Season

The Naden Badminton Club com­menced play for the 1952-53 seasonon October 1 with a good turnout ofboth old and new members.

Lieut. (SB) William Northey wasre-elected president of the club, withLieut. (E) J. R. Turner vice-presidentand CPO J. A. Stoddart as secretary­treasurer.

The Naden club has become affi­liated with the Greater VictoriaBadminton Association and a fullprogram of tournaments with Victoriaclubs is planned.

Columbia Division Scoresin Tug-oj-War Tourney

The air was full of grunting, groan­ing and frenzied shouting when HMCSCornwallis recently staged a mass­scale tug-of-war tournament. Afterthree hours of this, the Columbiadivision new entries were declaredthe champions, having routed thedivisional officers in the final.

The field was set up so that fourpulls were going on simultaneously,with competitions broken down intothree brackets. Columbia division wonthe new entry section, divisionalofficers the staff section, and Com­munications "B" the Communica­tions School section.

Thirty Teams EnteredIn Shearwater Bowling

With 30 teams taking part, theShearwater Inter-part Bowling Leaguegot under wayan October 21. Gamesare played Monday to Friday atClarence Park recreation hall. As inmost of the inter-part sports, thebowling season is divided into twosections because of the movements ofthe Carrier Air Group and the Support

Air Group. They will enter about 100additional bowlers in the post­Christmas section.

President of the league is Com­missioned Master-at-Arms Joe Ball.Other ofncers are: Vice-President,AB William Knatchbell; secretary,Ldg. Sea. Cecil Malay; treasurer, PO'Villiam Foreman, and ex-ofncio,Lieut. J. P. Deell1, sports ofncer.

Stadacona, ShearUiaterEnter Hoclw'y League

Two Navy teams are entered in theHalifax-Dartmouth Senior HockeyLeague which opened its schedule inNovember. HMCS Stadacona andHMCS Shearwater are both icingteams in the six-team circuit, whichalso includes Dalhousie, St. Mary's,Dartmouth and Ha·lifax Shipyards.

ShearUiater SponsorsJunior Football Team

HMCS Shearwater once again has ajunior Canadian football team, thisyear being coached by CPO AndrewChartren. The juniors are men under20 at the air station and the schemeprovides a sort of "farm team" forthe senior squad.

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Chatham's Rifle ShootingMastery Challenged

Currently afoot in Prince Rupert,B.C., is a proposal to organize acity league for .22 rifle shooting.

The move stems from the successof the I-IMCS Chatham men's teamin the inter-divisional competitionback in July, when it was at the topof the ladder.

Since then the men's team hasn'tgone to any particular trouble tohide its light under a bushel. ThePrince Rupert RCMP detachmentand others have agreed that a littlecompetition outside the division isin order.

Cansen1col Gridde,.sTrounce Stadacona

The visiting Royal Military Collegeteam had too much power for HMCSStadacona as the cadets rolled to a41-9 win in an exhibition Canadianfootball game played at StudleyField, Halifax, on October 11. Playingbefore the largest crowd ever to watcha Canadian football game in Halifax,the RM C gridders overwhelmed theStadacona team with spectacularpassing and slick ball handling.

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R.~tireme~ts

20 y~a~s.Toronto.October· 11;'. 1932, as a BoySeaman;.HMSExcellent;: HMC ShipsNaden,t Skeena,:Sladacona,Champlain, Val19ouver, fI:aser,Armentieres; Ottawa,Sag'llena~,Avalon, Cornwallis, GivetichY,.

>.Stadacona II, Nootka,PreY0st,. ,;;Scotian and Antigonish:. .. ~

LoriiService and C()Qt:lCOll<;lflctMedal, .October 11'1947.:.October 11, 1952.

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CHIEF PETTY OFFICERJOSHUA'CHARLES ARLINGTON

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Retired:

Retired:

Awards:

Awards:

Rate:Age:Length ofService:. ,20 years, 13 day,s, ,.j.'1 ,Holjle!bwlls?lMbntreal:ahd ..E:I'l#.f~~1Joined:OCtol:ier 8, 1928,"as\iifOrdinriry

;;eama~'.. , :L:\:)('~ 2id" i

Serveli in: .HlYIC Ships Sta.d,affWFh ~h.amp­. lain, Saguemiy,., S.t. ''Cdurent,

Ottawa, Prince HehrYi Ci\'ribou,Chaleur, Amblet,:€ornwallis,Scotian and L1eweHYQ~'IOhuii

Long Service and .G,t;>P'<kJi:)f\~\9uctMedal, December 20, 1950.October 20, 1952.1 ::1'JIOV

Retired;

Served in:

. ..CHIEF:PETTX OFFI.CER .

J~HNBRETHERTONJRIMMER

Rate:" C1GA4 -'A.ge:. 3'7Length ofService:Hometown:Joined:

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_ . PETTY OFlhcER,!::!)·",:'i,. HOWARD MARRIOTT' PUANK",

Rate: P1RG3' .,1:, ,,: h.';"

Age: 37" ,1(;;:; 1.' """ •..•.Length of' Ii .Service: 20 years. .,., ;0'.1'.Hometowns: Rockingham, N.S., an<;l::'?wift

Current, Sask.··:··:' ,'<: ... ,,{Joined: October 11,N5ia·pii&s, .C\! Boy

Seaman. _; !UlE',:1';~:!'i

Served in: HM Ships Vem,QI'Hr5l-51d.(f:oura­geous; HMC:, ~I~~ps. Naden,Skeena, Crus'a..8.'~r,'Ottawa,Stadacona, Cornwallis.and,Shel­burne.

Awards: Long Service an<;l'Good Conduct:Medal, October 11, 1947.

Retired: October 11, 1952.

NAVAL DRIVER THIRDIN NATIONAL ROADEO

About to make an underwater check ofH.I\1CS Iroquois' hull' is AB Harry Thomp~

son, of Montreal, a naval diver serving inHMCS Nootka. The inspection was madeduring one of the occasions when the shipswere together at a UN base in Japan. Hishefpers are AB Harry Chatham, of Montreal,and Ldg.Sea. Charles Stobbs, of Woodstock,Onto (IR-106).

Gordon V. Smith, civilian motortransport driver from HMC Dock­yard, Esquimalt, placed third in thefinals of" the semi-trailer competitionat the sixth annual National Truck CHiEF PETTYtOFFiCERRoadeo at Toronto November.lO. HERBERT LAWRENCE'CL.ARK

l\'Ir. Smith qualified for the natiqnat Rate: .CIQIJ. <.. .• •· •• :L.evhent .by h,:",innti~t tj;e

Cs~mi-dra11~r, .", t~~~~h;f 3~:.'· J:)t.:.~.:~

c amplOns Ip a e . . oa eo m· ·';'Service:. 20 years., ..,',.September. iIometowns: Dartl1l.out·h,· f'il\S.>~S\.vif't Cur-

. - . .rent,Sask.,and\Ei:\monton.Joined: October. 11 ,. 1!l32,~~s a Boy

;~,eaman. -' D,"-YServed in: . IIM.v<Ships Na.lien, Stadacona,

.Sag.(l¢n.~i CJlaiJlBlain, . Gaspe,·SuinriIers,ide,We.taskiwin, Pere­gt'irie;'Prestoni,w, Scotian, Atha­baskan, -Iro'q1I0is, Swansea andMagnificent.I,ong Service and Good ConductlYIeeJ~!i Oqtqber 11, 1947.O<:tbper ri;1952.

MAN OF THE MONTH

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CPO Beaulieu '\ras married early inthe war to the' former KathleenHaney of Halifax. They have threechildren, David, 10, Pamela, 6, andStephen Patrick, 2.

The "Chief" pursues a lone hobbyof woodworking, but he numbersamong his sports ice and roller skating,hockey and swimming. - L.S.

STUART LINDSAY HEADSSASKATOON N01\C .' _.' ',:' .

The new president of lhe·Si~kk.'toon:Naval Officers' Association is StuartW. Lindsay. ., .:"1

The election of officers, held~ .. atHMCS Unicorn, also saw 'Or. HerbCoulborne named vice-president and

.. Dr. J. M. Roxburgh secretary-"treasurer.

Weddings.Liel~t~nant-Command~r John G. Chance,

HMCS Catfmiqui, to Sub-Lielitenant (MN)Margaret M. Mace, of HMCS Stadacona.

Ordinary Seaman Alvin Church, HMCSCornwalli.s, to.Wren Helen Rollet, 'of Windsor,Qnt. .

pLieutenant-Commander Dennis E. Daines,HMCS Donnacona, to Miss Jessie T. MacLel­lan, of Port Hood, N .S.

Lieutenant Stanley Dee, HMCS Cornwallis,to Sub-Lieutenant (MN) Noreen Richmond,of HMCS Cornwallis.

Able Seaman Harry Finlay, HMCS Por­tage, to Miss Bernice Havill, of Montreal.

. Lieutenant William S. Lover, HM<?SStadacona, to Lieutenant (W) Audrey B.Worden, of HMCS Cornw:allis. .

Chief Petty Officer Edward McSweeney,.HMCS Stadacona, to Miss Audrey B. Eisner,of Chester, N .5. .

Able Seaman Louis J. Neuman, HMCSQueen, to Miss Dorothy I. Rump, of Regina.

Lieutenant A. J;'''Preston, HMCS BeaconHill, to Miss Ann Dickinson, of Victoria.

Able Seaman Ronald G. Randle, HMCSShearwater,tb Miss Ruby Steeves,' of SaltSprings, N .S.

Lieutenant (S) Peter Shirley, HMCSCornwall.is, to Miss Gaily Pitt, of Halifax.

Able Seaman Malcolm J. Thistle, HMCSStadacona, to Mi~s Doris R. Moore, Qr St.John's, Nfld. . .

"BirthsTo Petty Officer Everett Anderson, ·I;IMCS

Queen Charlotte, and Mrs. Anderson, a son.Te> LeadiifgSeariIan D.'A. Atha, HMCS .

Tecumseh, and Mrs." Atha, a daughter.,:1'<;> Able SeamaI1 James Caldwell, HMCS

Queen 'Charlotte, and Mrs. Caldwell, a son.>,~ To Lieutenant.]ohn S. Cottingham,HMCS

Portage, and Mrs. Cottingham, a son.To Petty Officer J. Derrick; HMCS Naden,

and Mrs. Derrick, a son.". To Lea~!-l!} S~i:lman R. J. Donaldson,HM.Q$ C;qrmYi.\lhs{"<n.nd Mrs.' Donaldson,a <;lii@hter;.. ',::; . . .

'P&;: UeJ.l~en~ht(L) jos:eph"Elson, HMCS .Sta.9aconaj'anC\i ).VIis. Elson,:tw~n dabghters.

i~. Lie.ute;;'~n;t ..'($I;l) T.E. IVI. Ex~reft,HMCSCarletori:;artdMr~.Everett, a son. ...,

Tb:' PettY"qfRclirWinstou',Ndson, HMCSQueenChafl~tte;;iiI.(iClMrs. Judson, a soiL

ToLi~I.'tL:(SLL·:'lVI. 'Langstaff, .. HMCSSh:eaiwat~r, an.ct=lVIrs. Langstaff, a son.: TO·1\bl¢~.$¢iHr\an· Eug~ne Larten,.HM'eS

Queeh:Chat!o.tt.if;an.d J.\tHs: Larter,adaughter:

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. To;P~t£y O,fficer Donald P"Rav~n;HMCSDiscovery, and Mrs. ,Raven, a son.

,.'fo Commis~ibt)(;;d Communications OfficerG.. J. SG~tti,HNifCS:'toriJ.waliis, and Mrs.

. Scott, a.ptl(lghter. , . ..~::, '1'6 Ciifef'PettyOfficer W. WaIte;;, lIMcs ,"'~~:Gontwid1is, <lnd Mrs. Walters, a;'son:' .. '''.·;rOLeading Seaman P. r'Wilkins, HMCS

,lStii:9a:cona,and Mrs. WilkiiJs; a daugntei:.· "<i',!>;; .. :: ..:~,· , - - .-".·PJ.j~e'~hirty-six

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