National Defense •*• Defence nationale Maritime CIMTHA Engineering l\lews inside! Journal CANADA'S NAVAL TECHNICAL FORUM June 1999 Photo Contest Winner! Leading Seaman Gary Drainville of Halifax, N.S. snapped this winning portrait of LS J.B.Y. Menard "putting on a snort" for the last time before HMCS Ojibwa's final sailpast in May 1998. (First Place $150) Our photo contest brought in 50 great photo submissions. Turn the page to see the rest of the winning entries. Also: • Converting TSRVs into Diving Tenders • Forum: How important is the Divisional System to morale? Canada The Rest of our Photo Contest Winning Entries "HMCS Edmonton" (Second Place $75) by CPO2 Ken Levert, HMCS Protecteur "Medevac" (Third Place $25) by CPO2 Doug Morris (Submitted by PO1 David Ross, CFB Borden) "HMCS Calgary in Drydock" (Category: Equipment $25) by PO1 David Ross, CFB Borden "HMCS Ontario" (Category: Ship/Vessel $25) by Cmdre (ret.) W.J. Broughton, Ottawa "Damage Control School Esquimalt" (Category: People $25) by MBdr Jon O'Connor, LFCA Headquarters Maritime Engineering JUNE 1999 Journal Vol. 18, No. 2 (Established 1982) DEPARTMENTS Guest Editorial: A Change of the Watch by Capt(N) Gerry Humby ................................................................................... 2 Commodore’s Corner: Prefacilitated Contracts by Cmdre J.R. Sylvester ...................................................................................... 3 Letters ...................................................................................................................... 3 Forum: Engineering Recognition by Cmdre (ret.) W.J. Broughton ..................................................................... 4 The Naval Divisional System and its Fundamental Importance to Morale in the Navy by Lt(N) Keith Coffen..................................................................................... 5 Director General FEATURES Maritime Equipment Program Management The Canadian Navy’s Solution to Commodore J.R. Sylvester, CD Simulation-based Command Team Training by LCdr Steven Yankowich................................................................................. 7 Editor Captain(N) David Hurl, CD Extended Work Period Management — Principles for Success Director of Maritime Management and by Irek J. Kotecki and David B. Jones ..............................................................14 Support (DMMS) Yard Diving Tenders — A Successful Vessel Conversion Project Editorial Adviser by Ed Chan and Lt(N) Gaston Lamontagne .....................................................20 Bob Weaver Greenspace: DGMEPM Special Projects Officer Protecting the Oceans in Future Production Editor / Enquiries by LCdr Mark Tinney ....................................................................................22 Brian McCullough HMCS Fredericton Joins the Solid Waste Management Fleet Tel. (819) 997-9355 / Fax (819) 994-8709 by Sean Gill...................................................................................................23 Production Editing Services by Ship Signature Reduction in the Canadian Navy Brightstar Communications, by Mike Belcher and Ping. K. Kwok .................................................................24 Kanata, Ontario Year 2000 Ship Readiness Technical Editors by LCdr Richard Gravel and Lt(N) Erick DeOliveira ......................................29 LCdr Mark Tinney (Marine Systems) LCdr Marc Lapierre (Combat Systems) NEWS BRIEFS ...........................................................................................................31 Simon Igici (Combat Systems) CNTHA NEWS: LCdr Chris Hargreaves (Naval Architecture) Newsletter of the Canadian Naval Technical CPO1 G.T. Wall (NCMs) (819) 994-8806 History Association .......................................................................................... 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Unless otherwise stated, Journal ar- website located on the DND DIN intranet ticles may be reprinted with proper credit. A courtesy copy of the reprinted article would be appreciated. at http://dgmepm.d-ndhq.dnd.ca/ MARITIME ENGINEERING JOURNAL JUNE 1999 1 Guest Editorial A Change of the Watch A personal retrospective by Captain(N) Gerry Humby, CD ooking back, it seems quite officer have even been instrumental in dustry was indeed an education. I fol- amazing to me that more than 37 part of it. lowed this with a three-year stint as years have whizzed by, seem- DMCS 2 (Surface and Air Weapons) dur- L Some of the biggest changes have ingly at the speed of light, since I began ing which time we were prime movers in been cultural. As an AB sonarman my naval career as a mere teenage ordi- NATO Sea Sparrow, and then it was back “maintainer/operator” in the three-year nary seaman at HMCS Cornwallis. In to the Coast in August of 1990, just in old HMCS Gatineau in 1962, the chances those salad days in what was then the time for Op Friction. Shortly afterward, the of me seeing an officer in the course of Royal Canadian Navy, when kit musters, pace began to get really exciting as our my daily work were zero. Officers would boot polish and parade grounds were my long-awaited new patrol frigates and mari- only be spoken to if they troubled to ad- daily fare, it would have been quite im- time coastal defence vessels started arriv- dress you, and as a general rule they possible to imagine that at the end of this ing at a breathtaking rate. Not only that, didn’t. They were in the main unpleas- great adventure I would be a full naval but the navy began a major restructuring antly snobbish, and in some cases un- captain, leading a huge and complex or- ashore which saw my own organization popular with the ship’s company — dis- ganization such as Fleet Maintenance shrink from 2,200 people to 1,100 during tinctly un-Canadian. Clearly this had to Facility Cape Scott. I have been privi- my five-year tenure. Even more exciting change, and of course it did — radically. leged to share the journey with some truly times lie ahead as we anticipate the arrival By the time I was commissioned in 1973, wonderful people — some of the finest of the first two Victoria-class submarines the transition to the wardroom was very people this country has ever produced — from the U.K. next year. pleasant and easy because of the much and it has been great fun, too (which is improved social attitude. As I close out my own naval career, why, I suppose, the 37 years have passed the message I would like to leave our jun- so very quickly). I am happy and con- The sixties brought many other signifi- ior personnel is that your future can be tented, and now that I am at this end of cant changes to the navy. On board just as full of adventure, opportunity and my career I can confidently report that the HMCS Columbia in 1965, we were half- enjoyable challenges as mine has been. marvellous and extraordinary journey has way across the Atlantic on our way to But you must always remember that “your been worthwhile. join our NATO cousins in the first Stand- attitude is the only difference between an ing Naval Force Atlantic squadron when The navy I joined in 1961 was a smaller ordeal and an adventure.” In my estima- we hoisted the new maple leaf ensign for representation of that which saw us tion our navy has the finest calibre peo- the first time. Unification of the Forces through the Second World War, but the ple, sound leadership, and a fleet of followed, and as a navy we gradually dis- people who were training us had served world-class warships. tanced ourselves from our Royal Navy in the North Atlantic convoys, and were roots. By the late sixties we were moving The other day when someone asked passing on the fruits of their hard-won from vacuum tube technology to solid- me if I had any regrets, I hastily replied, experiences. In those days most of the state and digital electronics, and I was in “No.” On reflection, however, as I prepare sailors in our ships still slept in ham- the thick of it with such uniquely Cana- for the change of the watch, I do have mocks, not bunks, and our pay was dian development projects as hydrofoil one regret — that I cannot do it all again. handed to us on top of our doffed caps. VDS, ASROC, and AN/SQS-505 digital Technology (especially in the field of You have the watch! display sonar. electronics) was a crawling infant, and even though Sir Frank Whittle had pat- Throughout the 1970s and early 80s ented his gas turbine in 1930, the idea of my career on the waterfront progressed propelling a warship with an airplane en- first at sea and then ashore through UCS [On behalf of the entire military and gine was still only in gestation. Over the and ADLIPS, after which