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Action Stations! HMCS SACKVILLE - CANADA’S NAVAL MEMORIAL ACTION STATIONS Volume 39 - Issue 1 Winter 2020 HMCS SACKVILLE - CANADA’S NAVAL MEMORIAL ACTION STATIONS Volume 39 - Issue 1 Winter 2020 Design Kaela Ramsay Offi ce Coordinator Canadian Naval Memorial Trust Editorial Committee HMCS Sacvkille returns to her Summer berth June 2019. LCdr (ret’d) Doug (Doug Struthers photo) Thomas Cdr (ret’d) Len Canfi eld Debbie Findlay Photographers and Contributors Lt (N) (ret’d) Ian Urquhart Cdr (ret’d) Bill Gard Doug Struthers Sandy McClearn HMCS Sacvkille provided a historical venue for a corporate anniversary celebration for staff of Modest Tree, a Halifax training and marketing company. In appreciation, the company presented a cheque for $1,500 to Art Forward, chief boatswain’s mate who conducted a tour of the iconic WW ll corvette for company staff. Front Cover sweeper served in WLEF (West- HMCS Sackville The late LCdr Jim Reddy over- ern Local Escort Force) and the sees move of HMCS Sackville to Sydney Force during the Battle of PO Box 99000 summer berth in June 2019. the Atlantic. At the end of 1945 Station Forces (Sandy McClearn photo) Digby was placed in reserve and Halifax, NS B3K 5X5 recommissioned in 1953, serving until paid off in 1956. Life Trustee Winter: Ian Urquhart provided this ship’s HMC Dockyard Back Cover company photo that shows his late HMCS Digby was one of many father Chief Petty Offi cer Alexan- 902-427-2837 minesweepers that served during der Herbert (Lofty) Urquhart (Chief Summer: the Second World War. Launched ERA) kneeling at lower left. The 902-429-2132 at Levis and commissioned in last wartime commanding offi cer of Quebec City in July 1942, the Digby was Lieutenant O. Ormsby Shore Offi ce: 162-foot diesel-powered mine- RCNVR (1944-45). 902-492-1424 Contents 4 From the Chair 7 10,000 km Great Loop Kayak Trek 8 `Til We Meet Again Concert 10 Crossed the Bar 12 HMCS Kootenay Commemoration 14 Victory in Europe (VE Day) DEFSEC 2019 Crew Pilgimage The Canadian Naval Memorial Trust’s participa- tion in the 2019 Defence Security and Aerospace Exhibition Atlantic at the Cunard Centre, Halifax 15 Liberation of the Netherlands Events in early October included a display promoting HMCS Sackville. Trustees staffi ng the display and meeting with exhibition attendees included, from left, Carl Anderson, Doug Thomas, Doug 16 In Remembrance of LCdr Jim Reddy Struthers and Patrick Charlton. 18 VAdm Hugh MacNeil recalls time as Chair 20 “My Battle of the Atlantic” 23 Remembrance Day Services 2019 24 SS Nerissa, the Final Crossing 26 Th e Last Tot Presentation of Model F.N.S. Surcouf 27 Profi le of LCdr Alan Easton Michael Zimmerman and his wife, visiting from the USA, presented a fi nely detailed model of the French cruiser submarine Surcouf (1929-1942) he had built for display in HMCS Sackville. With the fall of France 30 ‘Th e Last Flower:’ HMCS Sackville in 1940 the sub was taken over by the Free French Navy and served for a period operating out of Hal- ifax escorting Allied convoys. The sub mysteriously 32 Trust and Mess Events disappeared in the Caribbean en route to the Pacifi c with the loss of 130 crew including four Royal Navy sailors. Shown with the Zimmermans are Doug Thom- as, left, and Wendall Brown at right. (Doug Struthers 34 Membership Update photo) FROM THE CHAIR By Cdr Wendall Brown (ret’d), Chair of the Canadian Naval Memorial Trust Wendall Brown, Chair of the CNMT briefs members on “the way ahead” at the Trust’s semi annual general meeting Jan 11 at Halifax & Region Military Family Resource Centre. (Pat Charlton photo) Battle of the Atlantic Commemo- Pleasant Park Sailor’s Memori- SACKVILLE was honoured on rative weekend commenced a very al during the Battle of the Atlan- June 15 by VAdm Art McDonald active 2019 summer season for the tic commemorative service. The when he requested that SACK- CNMT and HMCS SACKVILLE. RCN provided HMCS Ville de VILLE be the backdrop for his The BoA activities included a free Quebec to commit the ashes, with change of command ceremony on concert featuring the Stadacona the assistance of the CNMT com- his appointment as Commander of Band held in the Halifax Central mittal team. the RCN. The ceremony was held Library, and a BoA Commemora- The CNMT played a signifi cant in Halifax in the Naval Dockyard. tive dinner in the Stadacona ward- role in the Canadian 75th Anni- The change of command cere- room for 150 trustees and guests, versary D - Day commemoration. mony was the last day that SACK- with the incoming Commander of SACKVILLE moved from HMC VILLE’s Commanding Offi cer, the Royal Canadian Navy, Vice Dockyard to Sackville Landing Jim Reddy, was able to be on Admiral Art McDonald, in atten- to be available to the veterans and board the ship. He passed away dance. open to the public. SACKVILLE on 25 August. Jim was very com- SACKVILLE was not available was used as a photo backdrop for mitted to SACKVILLE for more for the traditional committal of the offi cial veteran contingent. than twenty years, having served veteran’s ashes to the deep in the Several of them and their families as 1st Lieutenant for eight years harbour approaches off the Point toured the ship. followed by Commanding Offi cer 4 ACTION STATIONS - HMCS SACKVILLE - CANADA’S NAVAL MEMORIAL from 2012 until his untimely death. crease in donations over the 2017 for facility availability is known. He was very active with other mar- ticket receipts and the increased The preservation and interpreta- itime and veteran’s associations exposure and publicity is signif- tion plans are proceeding slowly. including the Master Mariners As- icant. A huge thank you to our The memorandum of understand- sociation, Merchant Navy Veter- trustees who stepped forward to ing (MOU) among Develop Nova ans, the Convoy Cup organization, assist the guides hired by the Trust. Scotia, the Canadian Naval Memo- and the Maritime Museum of the The interim solution to ensure rial Trust, the Maritime Museum of Atlantic. The esteem in which Jim the survivability of SACKVILLE the Atlantic and the Canadian Mar- was held was amply demonstrated until resources become available itime Heritage Foundation to cre- by the very large attendance at his to achieve the long-term solution ate a Canadian Maritime Heritage Celebration of Life and by the mu- of replacing the below waterline District on the Halifax Waterfront sical tributes paid by the Stadaco- hull plate remains an active is- has been signed. The public an- na Band at the Remembrance week sue. The lifting dates for the fall nouncement of this initiative is ex- “Til We Meet Again “concert. of 2019 were precluded because pected in early 2020. The CNMT HMCS SACKVILLE opened the submarine in refi t remains challenge is to have the underwater for visitors at her summer berth in the submarine shed. The date hull plate and any deteriorated hull at Sackville Landing on 17 June. proposed for SACKVILLE to en- frames replaced within the life ex- Technical diffi culties on opening ter the S/M shed is mid-February. pectancy of the interim solution to day in operating a visitor tick- Both the Navy and the Trust would ensure the long-term hull integrity et system resulted in a decision like to have SACKVILLE avail- essential to be a partner in the Mar- to make admission to the ship able in May 2020 to participate in itime Heritage District. A letter to free and to put a classy donation the celebration of the 75th anniver- be sent to all trustees will request chest in a prominent position by sary of the end of the Battle of the support to the Trust to raise private the brow. This turned out to be a Atlantic. The implication of these funds demonstrating the Trust’s sound decision as our visitor num- plans on the refi t schedule has not commitment to restore the integri- bers of 47,000 almost doubled our yet been determined. The Navy ty of the ship’s hull, a prerequisite previous recent best year of 25,000 and the Trust will have to analyse to achieve public and corporate in 2017. There was a signifi cant in- the refi t options when a fi rm date support. Given the state of national and international economic and related issues, and the encumbrances on all levels of government, progress on creating the Maritime Heritage District will be incremental. This, however, will not deter the Trust from continuing to improve the quality of the Trust’s presentation of SACKVILLE as Canada’s Na- val Memorial. She is a living ex- ample of the ships in which young Canadians endured for the duration of WWII the fear of the enemy, and the privation and hardship of life at sea. Renewed efforts are being made to fi nd a formula which would pro- HMCS Sackville at her Sackville Landing berth on a summer evening. vide a legal basis for the Navy to (Doug Struthers photo) ACTION STATIONS - HMCS SACKVILLE - CANADA’S NAVAL MEMORIAL 5 directly support HMCS SACK- commenced analysing the staffi ng trust will not hold a separate BoA VILLE. A group of Trust mem- requirements for this venture. The dinner. bers, retired naval offi cers familiar mandate and terms of reference for Londonderry, NI, the eastern with naval governance, are explor- a steering committee and working base for many of the Canadian Es- ing the issue in an attempt to devel- groups will develop in the next few corts on Atlantic convoy duty, will op a proposal that would achieve months.
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