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February, 1952 fhCROWSN EST Vol. 4 No.4 THE ROYAL CANADIAN NAVY'S MAGAZINE FEBRUARY, 1952 CONTENTS Page RCN News Review 2 A Phoenix Rises 4 31st SAG Has, Its Day 6 Ollicers anel Men ,, B Eight Honoreel for Korea Service .. 9 Half- Yearly Promotions ,, 10 Lower Deck Advancements 12 Canadals Naval War'Effort Honored ";,' . ....,', 13 Swansea Makes Historic ,Trip.' 14 Man of the Month '.,..,. 15 Refugees Find Shelter in Sioux '. '16 Colel Water Drill 18 The Navy Plays . 20 Operation Sailfish 22 Submarine Hunters 23 An O/r) Spanish Custom 25 Christmas 1951. ..., ..'. 27 Alloat ana AshQre 28 Cover Photo - With her 111ain' arlnatnent swung to port, HMCS Sioux' carries out a deliberate bonlbardnlent of enenlY positiol1S on the west coast of North I{orea. The photo was taken a split second after the destroyer had loosed a salvo of 4.7-inch' shells at, her target. The Sioux in' mid-February will becotne the first Canadian destroyer to complete two tours of operations in the theatre of war. She is scheduled to be relieved then by I-IMCS Nootka and to return to her home port of Esquimalt, B.Cq early in March. (SO-45). Page Ol1e R.C.N. News Review Canadian'Ships Active of war. Immediately on being re­ 1946. She was taken in hand for an on 60th Korea Coasts lieved, she will sail for her home port extensive refit and modernization Canadian destroyers oPerated off of Esquimalt, where she is due to six months ago. both the east and west coasts of arrive early in March. Following trials and work-ups on Korea during January. , The Nootka set out from Halifax the West Coast, the ship will proceed A United Nations communique December 30 ,on the 12,600-mile, to Halifax, arriving the latter part of issued January 17 reported that the six-week voyage that would take her April. She will be based on the East Cayuga had joined with other UN back to the Far East for her second Coast and will serve as a training units in a night attack on enemy tour of operations. ship for new entry seamen. troops, gun positions and supply dumps on the west coast. HMCSQuebec Commissioned New Barracks Block The same announcement said that in Esquimalt Ceremony to be Built at Naden fo~r-ship a force which included A second cruiser joined the fleet Contract was let in December for HMCS Athabaskan had bombarded when, on January 14, HMCS Quebec construction of a $1,750,000 barracks the Songjin sector, on the east coast, w<}.s commissioned at Esquimalt under block at HMCS Naden, Esquimalt. paying particular attention to rail the command of Captain P. D. Budge. The reinforced concrete structure facilities and similar targets. The Quebec was sponsored by will be built by the Commonwealth A few days earlier, the Athabaskan Madame Gaspard Fauteux, wife of 'Construction Co. Ltd. and is expected was credited with scoring three direct the Lieutenant-Governor of the to be finished in approximately 18 hits on a rail junction in the same Province of Quebec. In French and months. area. English, Mme. Fauteux pronounced During the same period, the Sioux Work on the project started in the traditional words: "I name this January and was going ahead on a was engaged in carrier screening duty ship Quebec. May God bless her and in the Yellow Sea. day and night basis. The barracks all those who sail in her." Then, with will be located at the crest of a rocky a pair of golden scissors, she cut a hill overlooking Esqllimalt Harbor. Nootka to Relieve ribbon which unveiled the ship's SiQux this Month , The block is designed to accom­ port nameplate. modate about 750 men in standard The Korean relief cycle will begin On the jetty alongside which the four-man cabinsequipped with single another phase in' mid-February when. cruiser lay were the hundreds of beds. Personnel will be messed in the HMCS Nootka arrives in the Far dockyard workers who had prepared building in a roomy, modern cafe­ East to relieve the Sioux. her for service and the 425 officers teria. Recreation spaces and other The Sioux will thus become the and men who would take her to sea. facilities similar to those in the new first Canadian destroyer to complete The Quebec, formerly HMCS barracks block at Halifax (see page two full tours of duty in the theatre Uganda, had been in reserve since 4) will be included. South American Ports Visited by Frigates Two West Coast frigates, the Beacon Hill and Antigonish, passed the half-way mark in their seven­ week cruise to South and Central American ports -and, at the end of the month, were on the first stage of their return journey to Esquimalt. In the preceding four weeks the frigates had carried out an intensive training program at sea, interrupted by comparatively brief but enjoy­ able stays in San Diego, Calif., and Talara and Callao, Peru, the latter the seaport for the capital city of Lima. One other break in the training grind occurred when the ships crossed the equator. Then, in traditional Families and' friends watch as HMCS Nootka slips ghost-like through a Halifax harbor fog, . fashion, the 36 officers and men who bound for the Far East and her second tour of United Nations duty. The destroyer sailed Decem- qualified as "shellbacks" initiated the ber 30. (IIS-17232). '. 259 "greenhorns" and "tadpoles" . Page two who were crossing the line for the first time. Due back in Esquimalt February 23, the Beacon Hill and Antigonish will call at Balboa, Canal Zone, COl'into, Nicaragua, and Long Beach, Calif., in the course of their home­ ward voyage. In addition to their regular crews, on board the two frigates for training are 20 subordinate officers, 17 men qualifying for quartermaster duties and 47 ordinary seamen. Swansea Starts Refit after C01'ibbean Cruise Naval families have begun moving into apartments at the Wright's Point housing develop­ HMCS Swansea, a ship that has mene, across the harbor from Halifax. The project will provide a total of 521 apartments for families of naval personnel based at Halifax, with full occupation expected by the end of the logged a lot of mileage in the past summer. By then the community will number close to 3,000. Shown above are some of the year, added further to her total apartment builclingsas they neared completion. (HS-16956). when she made a three-week cruise to the 'Nest Indies in January. The Swansea left' Halifax January CABINET MINISTERS VISIT DESTROYERS 9 and sailed directly to Nassau, Bahamas, where she visited from the Two Canadian cabinet ministers, number of men took advantage of his 13th to 16th. From there she pro­ Defence Minister Brooke Claxton offer and all letters have since been ceeded to New London, Conn., thence and Veterans Affairs Minister Hugues dispatched to their destinations in to Halifax for a brief stop before going Lapointe, and members of their party Canada, with a note from Mr. to Bermuda for four days. visited the destroyers Cayuga and Claxton enclosed in each of them. The frigate is scheduled to begin Athabaskan during their tour of the On leaving the Athabaskan, the her annual refit early in February. Korean theatre last month. party proceeded to the Cayuga, which It was a bright, mild J annary 5 was berthed nearby. There they when the party, headed by Mr. followed the same proceclureas in the Claxton, descended to the Athabaskan Athabaskan, walking around the ship in a drydock at Kure, Japan. The and chatting with ofiicers and men, Athabaskan was in for her semi­ Mr. Claxton addressed the ship's annual docking and, after a brief company of the Cayuga on the jetty pause while the party went aboard, at which the ship was berthed. Again the riveters and painters noisily he invited private talks and again returned to thpir job of cleaning and some of the men took advantage of refurbishing the ship's hull. the offer. The visitors were split into several groups and were taken on a tour of. It had been the party's intentioii to the Athabaskan, following which Mr. travel by motorcar to the Australian Claxton spoke to the assembled ship's Air Force base at Iawakuni but company and, at the conclusion of CommanderJames Plomer, command­ his address, was accorded a rousing ing ofiicer of the Cayuga and Com­ cheer. mander Canadian Destroyers Far Mr. Claxton congratulated the men East, came up with an invitation of Canada's destroyers on "the great which resulted in what was described part you are playing in the United as "one of the most pleasant inter­ Nations effort to deter aggression." ludes of the tour." The defence minister invited ques­ Commander Plomer's offer to take tions and said he would be glad to see the party to Iawakuni by sea was privately anyone who had any per­ gladly accepted and for most of the sonal problems. About half a dozen one-hour voyage Mr. Claxton and men availed themselves of the offer other officials took an interested view and spoke with Mr. Claxton in the of destroyer operations from the cabin of the commanding officer, vantage point of the bridge. Commander Dudley King. The visitors were also introduced to As he had done in Korea for the "PO Wren" Alice, the Cayuga's' The first naval vessel to be launched at Victoria since the Second World War went 25th Brigade, Mr. Claxton told the famous mascot, but, having appar­ down the ways Dece,mber 28 at Victoria sailors that if they wished to send a ently been taught to take a dim view Machinery Depot.
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