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HE STORY of Bethlehem with its tidings of peace and T goodwill is known to us all. It carries with it a spiritual message in which is embodied the hopes of the world. Each one of us, the officers, men and women serving in the Royal Canadian Navy, should feel warmly grateful that it is our lot to stand ready to defend the cause of peace and brotherhood and goodwill among mankind.

We have cause to be thankful, too, that the guns have ceased to fire in Korea and that our ships and men were, in some measure, responsible for bringing this about.

Let us not forget that our vigilance and determination must never be relaxed, if our Christmases in years to come are to be observed in peace.

Nineteen-fifty-three has been a year of growth and achievement, due largely to the combined efforts of officers, men and civilian personnel.

To them and their families, I extend my most sincere Christmas greetings. May the coming year be one in which the Royal Canadian Navy continues to give its best in the cause of peace and freedom.

Vice-Admiral, RCN, Chief of the Naval Staff CROWSN EST

Vol. 6 No. 1 THE ROYAL CANADIAN NAVY'S MAGAZINE NOVEMBER, 1953

CONTENTS Cxtente Page to tt£ fteaberg RCN News Review 2

The Flight Deck Party 4

Man of the Month 6 for Officers and Men 7 Cftrfetmas Cornerstone Laid 10 and Afloat and Ashore 11 tfje Jieto Pear Sailors on Snowshoes 14

When You're Old and Lame 17 Negative numbers of RCN photographs reproduced in The Crowsnest are included Wider Paths to Trade Pay 19 with the caption for the benefit of persons wishing to obtain prints of the photos. This they may do by sending an order to the North of Sixty-Eight 20 Naval Secretary, Naval Headquarters, Ottawa, attention Photographic Section, quoting the negative number of the photograph, giving The Navy Plays 21 the size and finish required, and enclosing a money order for the full amount, payable to the Receiver General of Canada. Book Reviews 25 Sizes, finish and the new National Defence standardized prices, follow: Lower Deck Promotions 27 4 x 5 (or smaller) glossy finish only $ .10 8 x 10 glossy or matte finish 50 11 x 14 matte finish only 1.00 16 x 20 " " " 3.00 20 x 24 4.00 30 x 40 " " " 8.00

SUBSCRIPTION RATE The Crowsnest may be sub• scribed for at the rate of $1 for 12 issues. The Cover—Christmas, whenever circumstances permit, is a Persons desirous of receiving time of homecoming and the renewal of ties broken by force of their own private copies by mail should send their orders, accom• circumstance. The artist has endeavoured to create the mood of panied by cheque or money or• homecoming and the quiet of Christmastide. der made out to the Receiver General of Canada, to:— THE QUEEN'S PRINTER, 75 St. Patrick Street, Ottawa, Ont.

Page one HMCS Cayuga sails from Esqurmalt for the Far East. (E-24943)

Five Destroyers in reminder to the forgetful ones that sive program of entertainment and Distant Waters young Canadians are still on the alert recreation which had been arranged. on the other side of the world against Eighty-five men were entertained at Five destroyers of the Royal Canadian the renewal of aggression. a barbecue at the Manila Club and sup• Navy will spend Christmas far from plemented the club's own musical pro• home on operational duty this year—the Athabaskan Pays gram with community singing and largest number to be absent from home impromptu skits. waters since the outbreak of the Korean Visit to Manila The Manila Red Cross did not delay war in 1950. On board them are more The closing weeks of HMCS Atha- long in asking for permission to arrange than 1,300 officers and men. baskan's long third tour of duty in the a mass blood donation and the response Far East were brightened by visits to Sasebo, Japan, will be the scene of was just as prompt. One hundred and Hong Kong and Manila—the latter an Christmas festivities for three destroyers thirty-six officers and men volunteered unofficial visit and the first paid to the on station in the Far East, the Huron, and the donations had to be spread over Philippines by Canadian destroyers Iroquois and Crusader, according to two days. The percentage of donors serving in the Korean war theatre. current plans. was the highest of any ship which had The Haida will be steaming up the The Athabaskans had just one regret visited Manila. in connection with their Manila visit— southwest coast of Mexico before head• On Sunday, October 25, the infant they had done their Christmas shopping ing outward across the Pacific for Pearl daughters of two Canadian families liv• so thoroughly in Hong Kong that few Harbour and the Far East for her second ing in Manila were baptized on board of them had the wherewithal to provide tour of duty there. the Athabaskan by Chaplain (P) George themselves with Philippine souvenirs. The Cayuga, not due in Japan until Soutar. Following the service miniature the beginning of January, will provide Because the visit, October 23 to 27, Athabaskan ship's bells were given to a renewed taste of Christmas for officers was an informal one, there was a mini• each family. and men in the Far East, for she sailed mum of official calls and the ship's The sports program during the stay from Esquimau with belated Christmas company quickly settled into the exten- was arranged through the co-operation parcels packed in her storage space. of the Philippine and United States Christmas Day for her will be spent in navies. Private homes and clubs ex• the great emptiness of the western Historic Ensign tended their hospitality to officers and Pacific, somewhere between Kwajalein Flown by 'Sweeper men. and Guam. The excellent arrangements for the When HMCS Gaspe commissioned at visit were made by Frederick Palmer, Where guns thundered along land Lauzon, Que., a special White Ensign fronts and sea coasts on the past three was used for the occasion. Canadian consul-general and trade com• Christmases, there is silence now. Those As the red "duster" o£ the merchant missioner. standing guard in the Far East, now service was lowered from the ensign that there are no bombardments or staff, the White Ensign, which replaced Escort Squadron it was the former battle ensign of the train-smashing exploits recorded on the Bangor class minesweeper. HMS Sid- Formed at Halifax front pages of Canadian newspapers, mouth, which was the lead ship in the The First Canadian Escort Squadron, may well wonder whether they will be historic raid on Dieppe in August, 1942. headed by HMCS Algonquin, destroyer thought of during the festive season by The Sidmouth's battle ensign had escort commanded by Commander those back home. been specially loaned to HMCS Gaspe for her commisioning ceremony by the Patrick F. X. Russell, came into being Some may forget, but not all. And it Maritime Museum at Halifax, N.S. on November 10 in the Atlantic Com• is hoped that these paragraphs will be a mand.

Page two By the end of the year, the new task group, which included the Prestonian (modernized frigate) at the outset, was to have added to it the frigates Toronto and Lauzon. All four ships have been rebuilt from the hull up, with aluminum superstructures, enclosed bridges and postwar anti-submarine weapons. Two frigates which have served long and faithfully on East Coast training duties—the Swansea and the La Hul-

l0ise have disappeared temporarily from the scene, with the prospect that they, too, will be converted in due course into modern anti-submarine escorts. The Algonquin and Prestonian, on exercises in the Bermuda area during the latter half of November, had the honour of standing guard along the route of the flight of the aircraft bear• ing Her Majesty the Queen and His Royal Highness the Duke of Edinburgh from Newfoundland to Bermuda. HMCS Micmac (Tribal class destroyer) car• ried out similar duties east of New• foundland, along the route from the Twin-engined F2H3 Banshee jet fighters have been ordered for the Royal Canadian Navy from United Kingdom. the United States Navy—the first jet aircraft to be used by the RCN. The general appearance of the Banshee is shown here. NATO Countries are manufactured by the McDonnell NATO Commanders Given Ammunition Aircraft Corporation, St. Louis, Mo. Attend Dinner Six European NATO countries will The RCN's first jet squadrons will be The joint commanders of NATO's receive more than 1,300 tons of ammuni• trained and ready for service on board Canadian Atlantic Sub-Area, Rear-Ad• tion from Royal Canadian Navy stocks HMCS Bonaventure, now building at miral R. E. S. Bidwell and Air Commo• under NATO's Mutual Aid Agreement. Belfast, Northern Ireland. The Bona- dore A. D. Ross, flew from Shearwater Most of the ammunition was loaded venture is being fitted with an angled or on October 29 to attend a dinner given by SS Table Bay at Lynn Creek, Port "canted" deck, which eliminates the by the American Council on NATO for of Vancouver, November 28-30. She need for the conventional barriers, and Admiral Lynde D. McCormick, Supreme sailed with 250 tons of ammunition for with the steam catapult, which can Allied Commander Atlantic. The Netherlands, 162 tofts for Norway, launch jets from a motionless carrier 211 tons for the United Kingdom, 399 or down-wind, if necessary. The dinner for Admiral McCormick tons for France and 11 tons for Portugal. The Banshee jet was designed speci• was given on board the U.S. aircraft A large shipment of naval ammuni• fically for carrier-borne service with carrier Hornet, where he delivered a tion had earlier been made to Denmark. the United States Navy and an earlier policy address on "Sea Power for model flew from U.S. carriers operating Freedom". Jet Fighters off Korea during the last two years of Ordered by RCN fighting there. Experience gained there has been incorporated into the all- Twin-engined F2H3 Banshee all- Admiral Mainguy weather F2H3 and is reflected in im• weather jet fighters are being purchased Lauds Teamwork proved equipment and operational from the United States Navy to equip qualities. the Royal Canadian Navy's carrier- The efficiency and teamwork of ships and establishments of the Atlantic borne fighter squadrons. The planes Sea Fury Squadron Command won the praise of Vice- Admiral E. R. Mainguy, Chief of the Trains at Rivers Naval Staff, during his tour of inspec• Nylon Ensigns Ground support exercises were car• tion in October. ried out at the Canadian Joint Air Arouse Envy Admiral Mainguy sent the following Training Centre, Rivers, Man., from message to Rear-Admiral R. E. S. Bid- What's the Royal Canadian Navy got November 9 to 27 by Sea Fury fighter well, Flag Officer Atlantic Coast: that other navies haven't got? aircraft of 871 Squadron. "The many evident improvements One of the answers to this ungram- since my last visit a year ago, which I Training for the naval aircraft in• matical question is nylon ensigns. observed during my recent tour of cluded close support, dive-bombing, ships and establishments of your com• During the October visit of the Atha• mand, gave me great satisfaction and baskan to Manila, visiting naval offi• rocket-firing, strafing and artillery re• encouragement. The growing efficiency cers and men spoke admiringly of the connaissance. The squadron was con• and teamwork displayed by all ship's equipment and her excellent con• trolled during the exercises by No. 1 branches of our Navy bring closer the dition, but when they commented on Carrier-Borne Liaison Section, Cana• day when, for its size, the RCN shall the nylon ensigns, their quality, smart dian Army, attached to Shearwater. be second to none. Congratulations to appearance and evident serviceability, all." they were downright envious. The move to and from Rivers in• volved 110 personnel.

Page three An Avenger aircraft has just landed on the "Magnificent's" flight deck and aircraft handlers rush out to remove the arrester wire from the tail hook. (MAG-4865) The Flight Deck Party

Any time the ship is at flying stations, take-off and parking them after they ously mentioned, and for the safety of a 55-man team whose members carry have landed on; for clearing the deck all personnel and aircraft on the flight out their assignments with all the speed of crashed aircraft, and for rescuing the deck. His right-hand man is the Chief and precision of a finely-trained football aircraft's crew in the event that a crash of the Flight Deck, who takes charge squad can be seen in action on HMCS is accompanied by fire. of many of the individual jobs handled Magnificent's flight deck. All these jobs must be done swiftly by the crew. This team—the Maggie's flight deck and expertly. There is no margin for "Safety" is a word burned into the party— knows how to carry the ball, error. Unlike the football field, the FDO's brain, and he makes sure it is too. It has to, for upon its efficiency flight deck doesn't permit a second as strongly impressed on the minds of depend things far more important than chance to make up for a mistake. those under him. Working on a flight touchdowns: The success of the car• Head man of the flight deck is the deck whipped by wind and slipstream, rier's flying operations and, sometimes, Flight Deck Officer. He is responsible and often within short feet of slashing the lives of an aircraft's crew. to the Lieutenant-Commander (Flying) propellers, a man need make but one In a nutshell, the flight deck party is for the organization of the flight deck false step, to write a ticket to disaster. responsible for ranging aircraft prior to party, for supervising the duties previ• "A propeller," as they say, "only hits you once". The flight deck crew's daily routine is determined by the ship's flying pro• gram. As the "Maggie" makes the most of every opportunity to carry out flying training when she is at sea, their day is usually a long one. And it's longer still when the ship is taking part in exercises requiring round-the-clock op• erations. On a typical dawn to dusk flying day, with the first aircraft due off the deck at 0600, the flight deck crew closes up at 0430, brings up whatever planes may have been in the hangar and ranges the aircraft in preparation for take-off. "Pilots, man your aircraft" comes at 0540. Engines are started and run up, and serviceability reports are made to the directors concerned. After all air• craft are reported to the Flight Deck Officer, he informs "Little F". At 0558 the amber light is switched on and at 0600 the green. With an im• patient roar, the first aircraft thunders down the deck and takes to the air. The rest follow at 15-second intervals. Lieut. Nevill J. Geary, flight deck officer {left), and CPO Stephen C. Fagg, flight deck "chief" At all times the aircraft are aloft, discuss the ranging and parking of aircraft on the "Magnificent's" flight deck. Lieut. Geary is also responsible for flying off the aircraft. (MAG-4984) half the flight deck crew remain closed

Page four up- The remainder have a stand-down, but they return to their stations 15 min• utes before the first plane is due to land. Then comes their busiest time. The moment the first aircraft touches the deck, the hookmen dash out and disen• gage the hook from the arrester wire. Then the plane is waved forward, over the flattened barrier wires, and parked on the forward section of the deck. The barriers go up again and all is ready for the next aircraft to land. As 30 sec• onds is considered an acceptable interval between landings, it is evident that the flight deck crew has to move smartly. After all aircraft have been landed on, the next step is to shift them aft A Sea Fury hurtles from the deck of the "Magnificent" during Exercise Mariner and, almost and park them in position to be refuelled before the aircraft is airborne, an engineer mechanic scrambles from his sponson to retrieve the and made ready for the next session of catapult strop for the next plane. (MAG-4981) flying. The procedure is repeated throughout that are caused by lack of understand• "island". They have one sole duty: to the day, until flying stations are secured ing. Teamwork is achieved by training, rescue aircrew from a fire. In the event at 1800. Then the flight deck party re- by example and by keeping the crew of an aircraft fire, it is their job to spots the aircraft and strikes down those fully informed on what is taking place. plunge in and get the crew to safety. that are ordered into the hangars. This Another essential is physical fitness. Protecting them from the flames and job takes about an hour and when it's On the flight deck, everything is done heat are their fearnaught suits, which finished all hands go below—except for at the double, and in the course of a are made of wool and have been im• the flight deck sentry. Night and day, full flying day is done many times. It's pregnated with a solution that fills every whenever there are aircraft on deck, a no place for a man who hasn't got good pore with crystals. The suits are abso• sentry from the flight deck crew keeps lungs and legs. lutely airtight and are kept that way a watchful eye over them. When the Every member of the flight deck crew with periodic soakings. weather is rough there are six sentries is a fire-fighter and, in addition to his An aircraft fire is an extremely rare —or more, if need be. normal duties, has his fire-fighting sta• thing but that's no cause for not being Teamwork, according to a former tion. Surrounding the flight deck are completely trained in handling one. FDO, is probably the chief requirement 19 fire-fighting positions, placed so as to Every opportunity is taken, therefore, of the flight deck crew. Every man enable instantaneous action no matter to send members of the flight deck crew must not only know his own job, where a fire might occur. to the fire-fighting school on MacNab's thoroughly, but that of the man who At ail times when aircraft are taking Island, in Halifax harbour, for practical works on either side of him, so that at off and landing on, four men wearing training. There they fight real fires and no time are there any of those pauses fearnaught suits are stationed near the "rescue" dummy pilots from blazing air• craft. The frrefighiing party is always on duty when the "Magnificent" is at flying stations. In the When a crash occurs on the carrier's event of a crash landing, their job is to rescue the aircrew and fight any outbreak of fire. Shown flight deck, first into action is the rescue here (left to right) in fire-resistant clothing are Able Seamen Glenn A. Worman, Robert A. Hammer, .and Donald J. Chapman. (MAG-4974) party. Fire or no fire, they make sure the plane's crew makes a quick exit. Switches are set to "safe" and when the Flight Deck Officer is certain there is no danger of fire, the crash party closes up. At the same time, the Flight Deck Engineer's party sets to work, renewing the barrier and making whatever other repairs are necessary. The plane itself is got out of the way as quickly as possible with the use of cranes and other equipment. Repairs to it come later. The most important thing at the moment is to clear the deck so the aircraft still aloft can get down. The roughest day on the "Maggie's" flight deck was one on which there were two "barriers" and an inverted crash. But the flight deck crew was up to the occasion, taking only a total of 17 min• utes to clear away the three damaged aircraft. It takes "teamwork to produce results like that, and teamwork is something the flight deck crew has in abundance.

Page five Man of the Month The Biggest Strawberries Pioneering a Sideline With Aldergrove's PO McKay

When the ballots were counted at "We were towing a target", he re• three stowaways. The crew passed the Naval Radio Station Aldergrove and it calls, "when suddenly it was shot adrift unhappy word around that the Nerissa, was clearly evident that the honour and we had to manoeuvre to pick it up sailing without escort, was on her 13th of being Man of the Month in "The again. That meant all hands immedi• North Atlantic crossing. Crowsnest" had fallen to Petty Officer ately turning to or losing the target. Nine days later the ship was 240 Graham Alexander McKay, everything "So what did I. do? I carried out my miles off Lough Foyle. The sky was dropped into a predictable pattern. duty as quartermaster and piped 'Stand completely overcast and the night was For instance, PO McKay was happy Easy'. I can still hear the roar of a unusually dark. A slight wind was to talk about the two-acre farm he has Chief Gunner's Mate calling 'Belay that blowing and a moderate sea was run• hacked in his spare time from the last pipe!' " ning. At 26 minutes to midnight a Fraser Valley bush and where he grows torpedo struck the starboard side. The the biggest, reddest, sweetest (give and engineroom took the brunt of the ex• take a little) strawberries west of the plosion and the ship lay dead in the Rockies. He was willing to size up the water. She began to settle slowly and political situation. He was glib about on even keel. the weather. Where the interviewer had Orders were given to lower the boats, really to chip away was on the subject but within three minutes of the first of Graham McKay. blast two more torpedoes struck almost When the bits and pieces were gath• simultaneously, one near the stern det• ered up and assembled, it emerged that onating the ship's magazine. Within PO McKay was born of Scottish an• a minute the Nerissa had gone under. cestry (as had been suspected) on July Of the Canadian naval personnel, only 17, 1919, in Medicine Hat, Alberta. He one officer and five men, Tel. McKay was the second in a family of five among them, survived. children. Eighty-four survivors were picked up The family moved to Calgary while at 8.30 a.m. by HMS Veteran (de• Graham was still a youngster. As an stroyer) from boats, capsized boats, 18-year-old student at Western Canada rafts and wreckage. The survivors in• High School, he dropped in one day at cluded 35 Canadian Army personnel and the Calgary division of the RCNVR, two of the three stowaways. From then on his interest in the. Navy Tel. McKay spent his survivor's leave grew steadily. This trend was viewed touring England and Scotland. After by his family with a certain amount of his own ordeal, he found the calmness disfavour. His father was at the time and fortitude of the British civilian a lieutenant-colonel in the Canadian population a bracing experience. Army. His mother was quick to re• He was drafted to the Mayflower mind him that none of his canny for- PO GRAHAM McKAY (corvette) for return passage to Canada bearers had so much as put their foot and then was assigned to the St. Francis on a boat except in dire necessity. For his inexperience, Ord. Sea. McKay (Town class destroyer) on escort duty They relented. That same year (1937), was elected to go over the side and in the North Atlantic. young McKay joined the Calgary divi• retrieve the lost target line, a task which After two years of shore and sea duty, sion as an ordinary seaman, RCNVR. involved immersion to the waist in the he went to Montreal Circle radio station The next year Tie first saw the sea Pacific Ocean. at Prince Rupert, B.C. By November while undergoing summer training on PO McKay never walked "civvy 1943, he was back in the United King• board HMCS Armentieres (mine• street" again. He volunteered for ac• dom to undergo six months' cruiser sweeper), based at Esquimau. tive service on the outbreak of war and training on board HMS Belfast. A high• A year later, after a winter spent in continued to serve in the Nootka until light of this period was the review of commercial studies in Calgary, he was the spring of 1940. He then transferred the Home Fleet at Scapa Flow by His back at Esquimau and this time went to the RCN as an Ordinary Telegra• Majesty King George VI. on board HMCS Nootka (minesweeper, phist and began a nine-month course There was further training at HMC later renamed "Nanoose") to qualify in Naden. Signal School, St. Hyacinthe, Que., fol• for able seaman. The time was Au• In April 1941, Tel. McKay and 11 lowed by service at Cornwallis and on gust 1939 and a man named Hitler was other members of his class went on board the destroyer Ottawa, his last making horrible noises. board SS Nerissa in Halifax and sailed seagoing assignment of the war. When Even the war clouds did not seem for England. In the 5,000-ton vessel the Ottawa was paid off in September quite as frightful to Ord. Sea. McKay were 105 Canadian Army personnel, 16 1945, Leading Telegraphist McKay was as something that happened during his naval personnel, 14 ferry pilots, 12 RAF drafted to Albro Lake radio station, training in the Nootka. personnel, a number of civilians and (Continued on page 28)

Page six OFFICERS AI\D MEN

Ten Promoted to 36, of Saint John, N.B. and Montreal; Commissioned Rank Acting Commissioned Officers (SB) No Vertical Beds John A. MacDonald. 32, of Winnipeg; Ten chief petty officers of the Royal In This Man's Navy Robert C. Collins, 30, of Calgary and Canadian Navy have been promoted to Victoria; Selwyn H. Stroud, 33, of Can- Official letters emanating from Naval commissioned rank. They are: Headquarters are regarded as The more, Alta., and Halifax; and Robert A. Acting Commissioned Engineers Hugh Word, and orders and instructions Wilson, 32, of Chilliwack and Victoria, contained therein are obeyed, except C. Ashcroft, 31, of HafTord, Sask.; Jack B.C. in very rare cases, without question. Bottomley, 35, of Esquimalt; and James A case where there was no room F. Ferguson, 35, of Proctor and Victoria, for doubt occurred not long ago. Its Seven Chosen to B.C.; cause was a circular letter sent to the Acting Commissioned Electrical Officer Attend University dockyard superintendents at Halifax and Esquimalt and to the naval over• J. T. Cottrell, 39, of Strathmore, Alta.; Seven men from the "lower deck" seers at various shipbuilding centres. Acting Commissioned Radio Officer H. have been promoted to the rank of cadet The letter read as follows: J. Bennetts, 33, of Esquimalt and Hali• in the engineering, electrical and supply ARRANGEMENT OF BUNKS IN NEW fax; branches of the Royal Canadian Navy. CONSTRUCTION SHIPS AND Acting Commissioned Communication Five of the seven are undertaking CONVERSIONS Officer Albert L. Bonner, DSM, BEM, degree studies in electrical engineering It has been decided that: 1. AIL men sleeping in bunks should sleep with heads forward and feet aft. 2. Bunks and reading lights in ships undergoing conversion and in New Construction should be arranged accordingly. 3. Bunks should be arranged hori• zontally.

at the University of New Brunswick, one is enrolled in engineering at Queen's University and one is studying com• merce at St. Mary's University, Halifax. All are attending university under naval auspices in accordance with a pro• gram common to all three services whereby selected men from the ranks are enabled to obtain university degrees qualifying them for commissions. At UNB are Cadets (L) Thomas V. Stephens, 24, of Mara, B.C.; Derek H. Baker, 21, of Victoria and Halifax; Howard W. Burman, 23, of Davidson, Que.; John W. Mathewson, 22, of Toronto, and Donald L. Moore, 22, of Nashwaaksis, N.B. At Queen's is Cadet (E) Laurence E. St. Laurent, 21, of Edmonton, and at St. Mary's Universtiy is Cadet (S) Edgar Y. C, Pinet, 22, of Ottawa.

Western Senior Officers Confer A conference of Canadian and United States western naval military and air commanders was held in October in Admiral Lynde D. McCormick paid his first visit to Canada since his appointment as NATO's HMC Dockyard, Esquimalt. Supreme Allied Commander Atlantic when he arrived at Halifax September 18. Here he is seen in the offices of Flag Offi cer Atlantic Coast with the two officers in charge of the Canadian Atlantic The meeting, one of a series held Sub-Area. Left to right: Rear-Admiral R. E. S. Bidwell, Commander Canadian Atlantic Sub-Area and periodically to review current plans for FOAC; Admiral McCormick, and Air Commodore A. D. Ross, Air Commander Canadian Atlantic Sub- the defence of Western Canada, Alaska Area and Air Officer Commanding, Maritime Group Headquarters. At the time Admiral McCormick visited Halifax the two sub-area commanders took charge for three days of the operation of Exercise and Western United States, was attended Mariner, the extensive NATO exercise. (HS-27395) by high-ranking officers of these areas,

Page seven including Vice-Admiral R. S. Low, USN Royal Canadian Navy's Atlantic Com• Commander, Western Sea Frontier; mand from November 11 to 13. Lieut.-General J. H. Atkinson, Com• He was accompanied on his visit by mander-in-Chief Alaskan Command; Captain V. A. Wight-Boycott, senior Rear-Admiral J. C. Hibbard, RCN, Flag Royal Navy liaison officer at Ottawa. Officer Pacific Coast; Major General Establishments visited included Stada- Chris Vokes, Officer Commanding West• cona, HMC Dockyard, Shearwater and ern Command, Canadian Army; Major Cornwallis. General Frank H. Partridge, Com• mander United States Sixth Army and Wetherell Heads Major General W. E. Todd, USAF, Western Air Defence Command. Hamilton NO AC P. C. Wetherell was elected president Ex-CO of Queen of the Hamilton and district branch of the Naval Officers' Associations of Can• Resumes Studies ada at the annual meeting of the branch A scholarship which will assist him in Star's wardroom on October 30. in completing his work towards a Other officers are A. R. G. Tippet, Master's degree at a U.S. university vice-president; S. O. Greening, secre• was the reason for Acting Commander tary, and John C. Beveridge, treasurer. D. F. (Don) Clark stepping down re• Plans were made for a dinner to be cently from the command of Queen, the held jointly with officers of Star. Regina naval division. CPO NELSON W. CRISP He has been succeeded by Lieut-Cdr. York Reservists William Haggett, who has been pro• Retired CPO Won moted to the acting rank of Commander Win Commissions Clasp to LSGCM while holding the appointment. Com• Two promotions from the lower deck mander Haggett was executive officer have occurred among reserve personnel One of the three men in the Royal of Queen during most of the more than at York. Canadian Navy to have been awarded two years Commander Clark was in the Clasp to the Long Service and Good The most recent of these was of CPO command. Conduct Medal, CPO Nelson W. Crisp, Lennox Rutherford whose July promo• of 2465 Cadboro Bay Road, Victoria, tion to the rank of Acting Commissioned had seen a total of 33 years' service in Royal Navy Officers Gunner was promulgated in October. three navies by the time he retired this Visit East Coast Listed at the same time, but effective year. Rear-Admiral G. Barnard, Deputy in May, was the promotion of PO J. J. CPO Crisp joined the Royal Navy in Chief of Naval Staff to the British MacQuarrie to the rank of Acting Com• 1920 at the age of 17. Three years of Admiralty, visited establishments in the missioned Radio Officer. his Royal Navy time were spent on loan to the New Zealand navy and the last The first class of Wren Engineer Officer Writers completed their course in the Mechanical Train• three on loan to the RCN. He formally ing Establishment at Naden on October 15. Pictured left to right, (back row) Wrens Betty White, Freda Miilen, Marie Cheney, Beverly Perry, Theresa Hefferman, and Ester Hornsberger; (front row) transferred to the RCN in 1933. Wren Eleanor Henault, CPO William Mulchings, class instructor, and Wren Dorothy Beevers. (E-24975) He was awarded the Long Service Medal in 1936 and 15 years later, in 1951, he qualified for the clasp to the medal. During his long career in the Com• monwealth navies, CPO Crisp served in more than 20 different ships. He was 50 years old in September. Some years ago clasps to the LSGCM were awarded to Chief ERA John David Pratt and to RPO James R. Joslyn.

Admiral Adopted By Six Nations A ceremony in which he was given the name of Gow-na-go-wan, Mohawk for Chief Big Boat, by the Six Nations Indians, was an outstanding incident of an early-November visit to Brantford, Ontario, by Rear-Admiral J. C. Hib• bard, Flag Officer Pacific Coast. The "adoption" ceremony took place on the afternoon of Saturday, November 7, and that night Admiral Hibbard was guest of honour at a reunion of wartime members of the ship's company of HMCS Iroquois, which he commanded on the Murmansk run, in the English drill deck has been torn down to make Channel and in the Bay of Biscay before way for enlarged training quarters. and after D-Day. What confronted the organizers of the The reunion was organized by the ball, the Toronto branch of the Naval Brant Naval Veterans' Association and Officers' Associations of Canada, was a was attended by about 30 former Iro• vast expanse of tarpaper where the quois officers and men from points as space had been blanked in by the distant as Brockville and Detroit. builders. At 11 a.m. Saturday, Admiral Hibbard When the guests arrived for the ball laid a wreath on the Brant County War they saw instead an immense chart of Memorial, with the Admiral Nelles Sea the North Atlantic. Positioned on this Cadet Corps providing a guard of were cut-out cartoon groups depicting honour. A civic welcome was followed comic situations in convoys, patrol air• by visits to the statue of Joseph Brant craft, etc. and the Brant "Historical Society Mus• Among the distinguished guests who eum, and a civic luncheon. were welcomed by L. Nelson Earl, presi• The Six Nations reservation was the dent of the Toronto NOA, were Rear- scene of the afternoon ceremony, which Admiral W. V. Saunders, USN (Ret.), was preceded by the laying of a wreath and Mrs. Saunders; Captain V. A. on the Six Nations War Memorial. In Wight-Boycott, senior U.K. naval liaison attendance were the Six Nations brass officer, Ottawa; Captain Clifford Scull, U.S. naval attache, and Mrs. Scull, band and the Admiral Nelles Sea Cadets. It is not a duck hunting for worms; it is On Sunday night, Admiral Hibbard Ottawa, and Captain R. I. Hendy, com• "frogman" Lieut.-Cdr. Ben Acker man heading was the speaker at the annual Remem• manding officer of York. for the bottom during recent exercises con• brance service of the Telephone City ducted by the Explosive Disposal Unit in Esqui• malt harbour. (E-24412) Branch of the Canadian Legion. At the reunion, Admiral Hibbard was Eight departments reached their pos• presented with a life membership in the sible and, as a bonus, each department Navy Club by Gordon J. Stokes, secre• reaching the 100 per cent stage was tary, who served under Admiral Hib• granted a "make and mend". Depart• bard in the Iroquois. ments donating the "possible" were: Gunnery School, TAS School, Seaman• Eyesore Becomes ship School, Communications Training Artistic Display Centre, Care and Maintenance Party, Imagination plus artistic talent turned Explosive Disposal Unit, P and RT De• an immense eyesore into a centre of at• partment and RCN Hospital. traction for Toronto's Trafalgar Ball at HMCS York. Truck Driver York is in process of acquiring a new Third Again wing and the entire north wall of the For the second successive year, Gor• don V. Smith, driver with the Naval Unlike Amphitrite, there was nothing mythical about the "Queen of the Sea" who signed the Motor Transport Section at HMC Dock• visitors' book of the Micmac during the destroy• yard, Esquimalt, has placed third among er's visit to the Fisheries Exhibition at Lunen• the nation's best truck drivers in his burg, N.S. Nineteen-year-old Janet Conrad, of division. Lunenburg County, crowned queen for the day, Mr. Smith, who won the semi-trailer signs her name in the presence of the Micmac's captain, Commander G. M. Waddi. (HS-27442) division in the B.C. finals, scored 312 Defence Production Minister C. D. Howe is points in the National Truck Roadeo in piped on board the Algonquin at Montreal, Toronto in November to win $100 cash during the ship's visit there for inspection by and trophies. members of the Canadian Industrial Prepared• ness Association. (ML-286) Officers' Club Blood Donation Holds Election May Be Record C. D. Heward is the newly-elected Stadacona has again come to the aid president of the Naval Officers' Club of the Red Cross blood bank. During Inc., of 1530 McGregor Street, Mont• the three-day clinic Stadacona's officers real. and men contributed what may be a Other officers elected at the annual record by giving 909 pints of the general meeting were: J. M. Richard• precious fluid. son, vice-president; F. N. Wilson, sec• To stimulate interest in the drive for retary; C. W. Brown, assistant secretary; blood, a large board listing the various R. G. Bremmer, treasurer, and K. R. departments was prepared and as de• Dwerryhouse, assistant treasurer. partment after department "went over The new directors are P. F. Collins, the top", figuratively speaking, they W. H. S. Dunn, F. P. Hamm, W. C. Har• were listed as having donated a "pos• rison, W. M. Hayman, George Kennery, sible" of 100 per cent. A. Marcil and J. P. Robitaille.

Page nine Officer's Slip Cornerstone Laid for Dead Giveaway

Sigmund Freud, the father of psy• Supply Depot choanalysis, claimed that mistakes were rarely accidental. The "uncon• scious" part of the mind was usually The cornerstone for the RCN's new ships' fittings, hardware, clothing, elec• in there pitching. Supply Depot at Ville LaSalle, near trical and electronics equipment. The This interesting theory is drawn to the attention of the Lieutenant-Com• Montreal, was laid by Defence Minister depot has its own water supply. Lo• mander who wound up his monthly Brooke Claxton on October 19, in a cated on the east side of Dollard Street report to Naval Headquarters with Navy Week ceremony. in Ville LaSalle, it is served by both the words: Afterwards, he inspected the depot, CNR and CPR spur lines. "I have the horor to be Sir which was begun in 1951 to provide In his speech, Mr. Claxton noted Your obedient servant" logistic support for naval ships and Navy Week, saying that "people in establishments at both coasts and for Canada have every reason to be proud naval divisions throughout the country. of the work of their Navy". He spoke other guard of 70 veterans employed It has been in operation since February, of the citations gained by all Canadian at the depot. and covers 96 acres. destroyers who served in the Korean Vice-Admiral E. R. Mainguy, Chief The cornerstone laid by Mr. Claxton war and said the support of the people of the Naval Staff; Commodore Paul was that of the administration building, of Canada has made it possible to meet Earl, NOIC, Montreal; and Commodore still under construction. There are four every requirement in Korea and NATO (S) R. A. Wright, Supply Officer in other main buildings, a motor transport by the target date. Chief, were among the senior naval of• garage, central heating plant, a power The minister was met by Commander ficers there. Also present were Mayor plant and a separate building for inflam• (S) J. R. Anderson, commanding officer J. A. Leroux, of Ville LaSalle, senior mable stores. The depot employs be• of the depot, and a guard of honour members of the other Armed Forces, tween four and five hundred naval and from HMCS D'Iberville, under Instruc• and officials of the Navy League of civilian personnel. tor Lieut.-Cdr. R. D. Campbell and an- Canada and allied organizations. The storage buildings, measuring 600 by 200 feet, are of permanent concrete construction, single storied, with an in• terior ceiling of 23 feet and a floor load of 1,000 pounds per square foot. Two Warships Join Fleet Safety measures include fire walls divid• Two more ships joined the Royal ship and her company "good luck" and ing each building into three sections Canadian Navy's growing postwar fleet "good sailing" on behalf of the City of 200 feet square. The latest in mechani• on November 26, when commissioning Toronto. Rear-Admiral Knowlton also cal handling equipment is employed and ceremonies were held for HMCS Gaspe represented the Chief of Naval Staff at there are pallets and pallet racks, and and HMCS Toronto at shipyards in this commissioning. adjustable steel shelving to utilize maxi• Lauzon, P.Q. The band of HMCS Montcalm at• mum storage space. In a morning ceremony at the yard tended both ceremonies and the ships The two-storey administration build• of the Davie Shipbuilding and Repair• were dedicated by the Protestant and ing is equipped with facilities for hand• ing Co. Ltd., the Gaspe—the first mine• Roman Catholic chaplains of the di• ling a large number of items, including sweeper to be built in Canada since the vision. Second World War—commissioned as a naval vessel under the command of CONSUL GENERAL Two Gaspes—Two Lieut.-Cdr. H. Bruce Carnall, of Toronto. PRAISES SHIPS Mesdames Lapointe Rear-Admiral (E) J. G. Knowlton, "If, at every port of call, the men A guest who watched the commis• Chief of Naval Technical Services, leave as good a reputation as they did sioning ceremonies for HMCS Gaspe represented the Chief of the Naval Staff, here, they most certainly create mar• (coastal minesweeper) at Lauzon, Que., and distinguished civilian guests in• velous goodwill for Canada." in November with deep personal inter• est was Mrs. Hugues Lapointe, wife cluded Veteran Affairs Minister Hugues These words were written by Ray of the Minister of Veterans Affairs. Lapointe and Mrs. Lapointe, and Rus• Lawson, Canadian consul general in Two years earlier Mrs. Lapointe had sell Keays, the mayor of GaspS,, and New York • City, to Defence Minister christened the Gaspe when it was Mrs. Keays. Brooke Claxton following the visit of launched at the yards of the Davie In the afternoon, the Toronto — the the Magnificent and Quebec. Shipbuilding and Repairing Company, Limited, Lauzon. The christening might second of the 16 wartime frigates to be Mr. Lawson's letter said that the well have been a step toward estab• modernized for the RCN—was comis- Canadian .sailors had left a "splendid lishing a lasting tradition in the La• sioned with due ceremony at the yard reputation" behind them and mentioned pointe family. of George T. Davie and Sons Ltd. the fact that more than 400 members The first HMCS Gaspe, a minesweeper Lieut.-Cdr. William D. F. Johnston, of of the ships' companies had volunteered which swept the approaches of Hali• Ottawa, the ship's commanding officer, blood to the American Red Cross when fax throughout the Second World War, was christened in August 1938 by Mrs. welcomed the Hon. Gaspard Fauteux, they heard of the urgent need for blood Lapointe—not Mrs. Hugues Lapointe, Lieutenant-Governor of the Province of to replenish depleted stocks of gamma but her mother-in-law, Mrs. Ernest Quebec, who made a brief address to the globulin, used in the fight against polio. Lapointe, wife of the Minister of Jus• ship's company drawn up on the jetty. Mr. Lawson called this "the biggest tice in the Dominion Government of that day. Another notable at this ceremony was goodwill gesture that could possibly Mayor Allan Lamport, who wished the have been made".

Page ten AFLOAT AND ASHORE

PACIFIC COMMAND escorted to the theatre by a naval fire san force under fire from the enemy- truck and the fire chief's car. Before held mainland near Chodo Island; the National Fire Prevention week, Octo• the movie, the children were given a smashing of two North Korean trains ber 4 to 10, was observed in the Pacific short talk on the prevention of fires. during an east coast patrol in June, Command, with lectures and demonstra• and the rescue on two occasions of U.S. tions given by the Naval Fire Service to HMCS Athabaskan naval airmen. all armed forces and civilian personnel The Athabaskan is the only Canadian in the Command. By the time the Athabaskan had spent warship with a record of three tours Lieut.-Cdr. J. D. Crowther, Area Fire a year away from Esquimalt on her of duty with United Nations naval Chief, is responsible for the fire protec• third tour of duty in the Korean war forces. She was assigned to service in tion of the Naval Dockyard, Work Point theatre she had steamed 59,714 miles. the Far East for 30 of the 37 months Barracks, Naden, Munro Head, the And she still had another five and a that hostilities lasted. ammunition magazines, the fuel oil half weeks of steaming ahead of her On her arrival home in early Decem• depot, Canadian Services College, Royal before she tied up again at an Esqui• ber, the Athabaskan was scheduled to Roads, Belmont Park, and other armed mau jetty. be paid off into refit. forces married quarters. The Naval Fire Statistics covering the 367 days from Service is also on second call to the October 29, 1952, to October 31, 1953, Aidergrove Radio Station Municipality of Esquimalt. show that she spent 245 days at sea, Assisting the Command Fire Chief in consumed 14,632 tons of fuel, took on All Aidergrove personnel and their bringing to the attention of personnel fuel at sea on 22 occasions, made 58 dependents in married quarters were the seriousness of fire, its causes and its transfers at sea, fired 2,322 rounds of given gamma globulin after five cases practical control were Lieut. G. R. Lay, 4-inch ammunition in anger and 609 of poliomyelitis had occurred at the Base Fire Chief, Fire Lieut. J. Bryan rounds of 40mm at the enemy. station during the West Coast outbreak and Alarm Technician J. J. Mockford. The Athabaskan's busiest month was of the disease. Fifty pupils of the John Stubbs Mem• last March, when she spent 80-6 per The station's softball team placed orial School at Belmont Park, who made cent of the time at sea and fired nearly third in the four-team Inter-Service a fire inspection of their own homes, at• 10 per cent of the 4-inch ammunition League but, considering the small com• tended the morning matinee at the expended during her tour. plement from which the team was Odeon Theatre, October 10. The Navy Highlights of her tour included sup• chosen, the showing was considered bus which transported the pupils was porting the withdrawal of a small parti- highly creditable. Recent arrivals from Naden have in• Captain A. H. G. Storrs, commanding officer of HMCS Shearwater, greets officers of VC 920, cluded the following: Petty Officers Canada's first Naval Air Reserve Squadron, on arrival for their annual two-week training period. Ronald Bone and Philip Lewis, Ldg. Hidden behind Capt. Storrs is Lieut.-Cdr. (P) R. S. Bunyard, commanding officer of York's reserve squadron. Facing Copt. Storrs are, left to right: Lieut. (P) Derrick Tissington, Surg. Lieut. (P) J. G. Sea. Frank Tyler and Able Seamen Evans, Sub-Lieut. (P) R. D. Bromhead, Lieut. (P) Gerald Haywood, Lieut. (P) A. C. Wilson, Lieut. (P) William Beiko, Ralph Meier, Ronald G. S. C. Ballard, Lieut. (P) H. L. Washington, Lieut. (P) D. E. Stinson all of Toronto, and Lieut. (P) R. A. Tuele, William Krueger and John Davis. Lyons. Hamilton, Ont., the squadron staff officer and instructor. (HS-11057) From the Ontario came PO James Kirk and Able Seamen Robert Phillips and George McKenzie; from the Crusader Leading Seamen James Wood and Ern• est Tyler, and from the Beacon Hill Ldg. Sea. James Peacock and AB Gor• don Blackhall. Except for Ldg. Sea. Donald Legrande, who went to the Ontario, the departures were for Naden: Petty Officers Lloyd Keith and Robert McPherson, Leading Seamen Gerald Brooks, Rudolph Kuku- cha and Harry Snaith and AB John Malfair.

Ordnance School

The First Armourers' Mates Qualify• ing Course completed on October 2 and its members went on leave prior to draft to the Ontario. Successful candidates were Ldg. Sea. Edward Griffith, AB Charles Nowell, and Ordinary Seamen Leslie Cove and Barry Moreland.

Page eleven Joining the school from York for three months is PO Charles Moore and from Star for one year is PO Ernest Spencer, both for the Torpedo Armour• ers Course. The Second Armourers' Mates com• pleted MTE and Electrical School train• ing and began the last part of their course in the school. Lieut.-Cdr. H. W. Mayne had a good day at the Pacific Command pistol meet on October 11. He brought home the bacon in the form of the Henry Birks Challenge Trophy, the Rear Admiral Mainguy Pistol, medals in two -22 open matches, a medal in a 9mm open match, was second in the Aggregate and was a member of the team that won the RCN Revolver Challenge Trophy. PO Edward Parham was also a member of the team. The hockey season has opened and the school is again icing a team. Lieut. J. Heseltine has joined the ordnance staff after completing a tour of U.S. and Canadian plants and estab• lishments.

ATLANTIC COMMAND

HMCS Magnificent

When the Magnificent docked in Hali• fax on November 3, she had been absent nearly two and one-half months. With her the Magnificent brought nine new Sea Fury aircraft embarked in the United Kingdom. The carrier was the second last to arrive of five Canadian warships which took part in the NATO Exercise Mariner. The last ship to return was the Algonquin, which tied up the fol• lowing day. First three to return were the frigates La Hulloise and Swansea and the cruiser Quebec. When President Dwight Eisenhower laid a wreath on the National War Memorial in Ottawa on Sailing from Halifax on August 21, November 13, the wreath sentry representing the women of the armed forces of Canada was Sub- the Magnificent first called at New York Lieut. (MN) Barbara Ann Lee, RCN(R), of HMCS York, the Toronto naval division. Unknown to those arranging the ceremony, her brother. Flight Lieut. Thomas R. Lee, RCAF, since retired, had performed and Norfolk, Virginia, before joining similar duties as wreath bearer exactly ten years earlier when President Franklin D. Roosevelt visited up with Mariner forces. On completion the Canadian capital. The other naval sentry shown here is Ldg. Sea. Kenneth Brown, of HMCS of Mariner, she remained overseas for Bytown and Belmont, Colchester County, N.S. (Photo courtesy Star Newspaper Service, Toronto) further exercises and informal visits to United Kingdom ports before mak• ship automatically heads for Bermuda "marked trained". Five more are still ing the voyage home. after leaving Halifax harbour. learning the "nuts and bolts" of ship• The Algonquin made an informal visit Inter-part softball is over for the year board life. to Montreal as part of her return trip. with the Seamen winning the Captain's cup from the CPOs. Two very close Gunnery School games were played with US Coast HMCS Portage Guard Cutter Spencer, Portage winning Commander Donald G. Padmore, After returning to Halifax from by the slim margin of one run in each formerly Deputy Director of Naval Bermuda on September 26 and making game. Honours were divided in games Training, Naval Headquarters, has minor repairs to hurricane damage, the with the Argentia naval base. taken over the duties of Officer-in- Portage sailed again on the 28th for A spectacular game was played in Charge, HMC Gunnery School at exercises in the Gulf Stream with USS Bermuda against the Bermuda Club, Stadacona. Crevalle. Following this, trials were which has a reputation for winning. He relieved Lieut.-Cdr. (G) Charles carried out on new equipment. The reputation was maintained by E. Richardson, who has been appointed The Portage sailed for her "old stomp• defeating an all-star team from the to Shearwater as first lieutenant-com• ing grounds" the Bermuda area, in com• Wallaceburg and Portage by 18-11. mander. Lieut.-Cdr. Richardson re• pany with USS Diablo October 18 for Six ordinary seamen have completed lieved Commander George M. Wadds in A/S exercises. It is now said that the their new entry training and have been July, 1953, when Commander Wadds

Page twelve was appointed in command of the officer of Scotian, Operation Cordex on CND, was unable to be present at Micmac. was carried out to test the defence of the original presentation parade and he Lieut.-Cdr. (G) Joseph M. Paul, the Port of Halifax. Captain Briggs, and PO Tyson, whose medal had been joined the school as senior staff officer who was Seaward Defence Commander, sent to Donnacona by mistake, were from the Haida where he served as was assisted by several officers from presented with their medals at a later Executive Officer. Scotian, including Lieut.-Cdr. D. J. P. divisional parade. Lieut.-Cdr. (G) Murray Waymouth, O'Hagan, Lieut.-Cdr. (SB) J. T. Burns formerly senior staff officer in the school, and Lieut.-Cdr. D. J. Williams. Com• HMCS Chip pa wa has been appointed to the Quebec as mander W. E. Harrison, executive offi• The annual Trafalgar Day Ball was gunnery officer. cer of Scotian, took part in both Cordex held aboard Chippawa Friday, October CPOs L. J. Laferniere, Clarence E. and Mariner. 23, and was well attended. Farndale and Walter Nettleton have left A get-together was held October 6 by His Honour the Lieutenant Governor the School to join the Micmac. the Wrens of Scotian for those serving of Manitoba, J. S. McDiarmid, and Mrs. CPOs William Aveling and Jack on continuous naval duty with the regu• McDiarmid, Col. W. C. Dick, chief of Rafter left the School to join HMS lar force. The whole ship's company staff, Fort Osborne Barracks, and Mrs. Excellent for the Commissioned Gun• was invited to attend and the party be• Dick, and Air Commodore J. T. Bryans, ners' Course. gan after Evening Quarters. Among Air Officer Commanding Stephenson CPO Herman Heppell from the School those who are now taking their branch Field, and Mrs. Bryans, were among the relieved CPO George Coles in the Haida. courses on CND are Ord. Wren Con• guests of the captain, Commander F. H. CPO Coles has since jointed the staff. stance Pur cell, Ord. Wren Mary Gosling Pinfold, and Mrs. Pinfold. Welcomed additions to the staff dur• and Ord. Wren Doris Allsop. The band from the John Travers ing September included CPOs Ralph Cornwell, VC, Sea Cadet Corps, played Eade, Richard Aldhelm-White, William HMCS Discovery before the dance got under way. Belle-Fontaine, Robert Warne and PO Change of command at Discovery was A special church parade was held on C. R. Thomas. These five Chief and the big news as the Vancouver naval October 25 in observance of Trafalgar Petty Officers recently completed the division started its fall and winter pro• Day. Members of the ship's company GIs' course in Excellent. gramme. Acting Commander Jack and the Sea Cadets paraded to Holy In a 10-month period 294 officers and Stevenson, former executive officer, took Trinity Church for services. Afterward, 1,777 men from the Atlantic Command over from Commander Glen McDonald, Commander Pinfold laid a wreath on completed the Small Arms Familiariza• who has been captain for the past three the cenotaph, and the salute was taken tion Course at Bedford and Debert rifle years. in the march past by Lieutenant Gov• ranges. Lieut.-Cdr. Andy Ross, who has served ernor McDiarmid. Rev. J. S. McKinney, successively as new entry training offi• ship's chaplain, conducted the services. Torpedo Anti-Submarine School cer, training commander and first lieu• Sub.-Lieut. (W) E. A. Lang, assist• Completion of UNTD training and tenant, succeeded Commander Steven• ant staff officer since November 1952, most reserve training has not resulted son as executive officer. Lieut.-Cdr. has been appointed to HMCS Bytown. in a slack period for the TAS School, Joseph Roberts, who had directed TAS Sub-Lieut. Lang joined the WRCNS in as two JOTLC classes have commenced. activities at Discovery, took over as 1945, being discharged in 1946. She re• JOTLC "I" class, which began TAS training commander. His duties in the entered in 1951 as a Leading Wren, and training August 31, has taken sea train• TAS division were assumed by Lieut.- was commissioned in June 1952. ing in Bermuda waters. Cdr. Ian MacDonald, while Lieut. Glen A prospective new entry was christ• Commissioned Gunner (TAS) R. E. Hyatt became communication officer, re• ened at Chippawa recently. His name Dorken has joined the school staff for placing Lieut.-Cdr. Mac-Donald. —Brian Liston Burns Mcllhagga, son a few weeks after service in Korean A party was held in the ward• of Commander and Mrs. Mcllhagga. waters. TAS School staff is pleased by room to honour Commander and Mrs. Chaplain McKinney conducted the ser• the selection of Cd. Gunners Dorken, A. Glen McDonald. They were presented vice. A. Butchart and Douglas Babineau for with a set of silver mugs, suitably en• Fourteen men, commanded by Lieut. the next Branch Officers' Educational graved. In the absence of Commander W. H. Wilson, attended a two-day shoot, Course. Stevenson, in the East for the COs' con• at the Canadian School of Artillery, CPO Harry S. Carson has joined the ference, Lieut.-Cdr. Ross, mess presi• Camp Shilo. This marked the first time instructional staff of the TAS School dent, was chairman. that a naval gun crew from Winnipeg from the Haida. CPO Alexander R. Commodore Kenneth L. Dyer, in Van• had fired a 40mm Bofors. The results, Watson has reinforced the instructional couver as principal speaker at Remem• as judged by the Army range officer— staff while awaiting course. brance Day ceremonies at the Ceno• excellent. taph, presented Coronation medals to NAVAL DIVISIONS members of the ship's company at eve• HMCS York ning quarters. York's VC 920 has completed its HMCS Scotian Those who received medals at Dis• training program at Shearwater. A divisional officers' course for offi• covery included Commander Stevenson, The squadron's four Harvards were cers of Scotian started October 24. The Surgeon Captain David W. Johnstone, flown to Shearwater, October 3. Accom• course includes administrative and field Lieut.-Cdr. Ross, Lieut.-Cdr. Frank Tur• panying them was a Dakota transport, training classes and is being held on ner, CO of the University of British carrying the balance of the nine pilots the week-ends to enable as many as Columbia's UNTD; Lieut.-Cdr. J. E. taking training and five men. possible to attend. It is to continue Hanna, New Westminster Corps, RCSC, While the pilots were taking their fly• throughout the winter season and will CPO R. A. "Doc" Myles, CPO C. M. ing training, maintenance personnel end with a mess dinner. Hartney, PO James Blight, PO Joseph from York who went with the squadron Under the command of Captain W. E. C. Williams, PO D. M. Harvey, and Ldg. attended classes at the School of Naval S. Briggs, RCN(R), Ret'd, a former Sea. Lincoln W. Tyson. PO Harvey, Aircraft Maintenance.

Page thirteen ing I left it with mine: I was obliged 7th reached Presque Isle, where there are made of buffalo's hide, sole and to leave one of my best seamen sick at is a barrack and depot for provisions, tops in one, roughly sewed up with the hospital, frost bitten, and I have but no houses near it; this place is 82 twine, a stripe of hide run through g>atlor£ on ismotogfjoes since learnt he has lost two of his toes. miles from Frederickston. Discharged notches, cut round the quarters, to haul From Frederickston we continued on the sleighs, and began making prepara• it tight on your foot. Toboggins are the ice of the river St. John, except in tions for our march, each of us being hand sleighs, about four feet in length, Nine-Hundred-Mile March in Depth of the places where, from shoals, the ice furnished with a pair of snow shoes, and one in breadth, made of such light Winter Unique in Naval History is thrown up in heaps. The country, two pair of moccasans, a toboggin be• wood that they do not weigh above four after leaving Frederickston, is but thinly tween every four men, a camp kettle pounds. On these you lash your pro• inhabited; a settlement you may see to every twelve, with axes and tinder- visions and clothes, and with the bight occasionally, but never more than three box. As you may not know the use of of a rope over your shoulder, drag it houses together. I kept always in the those articles by their Indian names, I with great ease on the snow. I pro• will endeavour to describe them. Snow vided myself at Halifax with a jacket, IN THE STORY of Canada in colonial Royal Hospital, Plymouth, lect them again. The seamen were now wake of the first division, halting where shoes are of singular shape, something trowsers, and waistcoat, lined with fine I times, there are to be found accounts 22nd October, 1814. divided into two divisions, the first un• they had the day before. On the third like a pear, formed by a hoop, and the flannel, so that with those, three flannel relating to the many occasions when the Mr. Editor, der Captain Collier's command, the sec• evening, at the house where I halted, bottom of them netted across with the shirts, and a linen one on, three pair of men and ships of the Royal Navy came I do myself the honour of transmit• ond under mine, as being the senior I found the master of the Thistle a hide of some animal; they are fixed on stockings, and a square piece of blanket to the defence of the colonies that today ting to you, an account of the march officer. corpse, having died with intense cold.* Captain Collier having made every ar• by a strap round the heel, and tied wrapped on my feet, with moccasans comprise Canada. But the march in the of my youngest son, Lieutenant Henry On the 2nd of February, Captain Col• rangement for burying him, I put his across the instep, as you do a pair over all, I felt pretty warm. depth of winter by over two hundred Kent, which if you think likely to prove lier proceeded with his division in body into a sleigh, and sent it to a of skates; the;' are about two feet in seamen from the Atlantic to Lake On• interesting to the readers of the NAVAL sleighs, furnished by the inhabitants at * The officer mentioned here was Mathew village a few miles distant. On the length, and one in breadth. Moccasans Abdy, master of HMS Thistle, who died of tario to help in the defence of what is CHRONICLE, the insertion of it will their own expense, and the day follow- exposure February 5, 1814.—Ed. now Ontario is perhaps unique in the oblige, Sir, your humble servant, annals of the fleet. John Kent. When the United States declared war Extraordinary March of Lieutenant on Great Britain in 1812, the latter, Henry Kent, from St. John's New though heavily engaged by Napoleon Brunswick, to Kingston, in Upper Can• in Europe, decided to drive American ada, being a distance of 900 Miles, in shipping from the high seas and to re• the depth of the Winter. inforce the defences of Canada. Ameri• can strategy called for the conquest of Kingston, on Lake Ontario, the relatively unprotected settlements June 20th, 1814. of Canada by a three-pronged series of We left Halifax in the Fantome, on attacks through Detroit, Niagara, and the 22nd of January last, and arrived Montreal. at St. John's (New Brunswick), on the In Canada, it was known from the 26th, making a passage of four days, earlier war experiences of the Provin• the weather extremely bad: the brig cial Marine, that because of the non• appeared a complete mass of ice, it existence of roads, he who commanded freezing as fast as the sea broke over the great inland waterways of the us. The inhabitants of St. John's came Great Lakes and Lake Champlain, could forward in the most handsome manner move troops at will and so maintain in a subscription to forward us in sleighs the advantage on land. to Frederickston, the seat of govern• ment, a distance of 80 miles. The sea• By the Autumn of 1813, the Canadians men were divided into three divisions, and British were forced out of Detroit each of 70 men, the first under Captain after the complete defeat of the British Collier, of the Manly, the second under squadron at Put-in-Bay, Lake Erie. That Lieutenant Russel, and the third under winter, it was a ship-builders' war on myself. On the 29th of January, the the shores of Lake Ontario, for at Sack- first division proceeded about nine in ett's Harbour, New York, and at King• the morning, and in the afternoon the ston, the contenders for the control of second followed; the next morning I Lake Ontario and the St. Lawrence disembarked, the rigging of all the ships raced through the winter months build• being manned, and the crews cheering ing ship-rigged sloops, frigates, and us. On landing, we were received by even first-rate three-deckers. the band of the 8th Regiment, and a To help man the fleet at Kingston, large concourse of people, who escorted more than two hundred seamen and us to the sleighs, when we set off at their officers landed at Saint John, N.B., full speed. In eight hours we went from HMS Fantome and struggled fifty miles, and then halted for the through the blizzards and privations of night at a small house on the banks of the wilderness to the defence of Can• the river; started again in the morning, ada less than a century and a half ago. and in the afternoon reached Freder• The following is an eyewitness account ickston, and found both divisions had of this epic journey, from the "Naval halted there. The seamen were lodged Chronicle" of 1815. The writer's in• in a barrack, which was walled in, but dividualistic spelling has been left un• they soon scaled the walls, and were touched. running about the town; you may there• fore judge what trouble we had to col•

Page fourteen Page fifteen At day-break, commenced lashing our off the path, we went up to our shoul• canoes, watching a favourable oppor• provisions on the toboggins, and at eight ders in snow; got half way through this tunity to get through the ice, and per• o'clock commenced our march. The night, and again slept in the woods: haps each taking a different route; some clothes I had with me being four the distance through is 38 miles. On got entangled, and were not able to ex• shirts, the same of stockings, a coat and the afternoon of the 20th reached the tricate themselves for hours; at the same trowsers, with a great coat, and a cap St. Lawrence, and found thirty carioles time drifting up and down as the cur• to sleep in. We marched daily from waiting to convey us to Riviere de Caps, rent set them. In attempting to launch fifteen to twenty-two miles, and though a French village about three miles dis• one over the ice, I fell through it up to that appears but a little distance, yet, tant. The next day procured carioles my neck, and was two hours before I with the snow up to our knees was as for all the men to Kamaraska, another could get my clothes shifted. Marched mtich as any man could do. The first village 15 miles distant. On the 22nd the people on board the Aeolus and night we reached two small huts, the reached Riviere Oneille, a neat little Indian, lying in Wolf's Cove, and then next the same accommodation, and the village, distant from Kamaraska about gave them leave to go on shore. The third slept in the woods. On the fourth, 12 miles. I should mention, that from following morning the first division reached the Grand Falls,* which are Kamaraska to Kingston is 478 miles, again proceeded on the march, and the about forty feet in height; none of us which we were obliged to march, as next morning myself, with the second, saw them, as they were a mile distant, on our arrival at Quebec we had not followed. I forgot mentioning to you and all of us too fatigued to go that sufficient interest to procure more an unfortunate accident which happened distance: next day reached a small sleighs than sufficient to carry our pro• to me on the second day of our march French settlement on Grande Riviere. visions, baggage, and sick. On the 24th from Presque Isle: by a severe fall on The march from here to Madawaska reached St. Rocques, another village, the ice, I broke the bone of the fore (another French settlement), was be• distant 13 miles; the 25th, La Forte, finger of my right hand, between the yond any thing you can conceive; it blew 15 miles, the 26th, St. Thomas, 18 miles; knuckle and the wrist, so that for five a gale of wind from the northward, and the 27th, Berthier, 10 miles; and on the weeks I had my hand in splints, and the drift of snow was so great, it was 28th, Point Levy, opposite Quebec, a suspended in a sling, which I found not almost impossible to discern a man a distance of 20 miles. On the following a little inconvenience from, and not hundred yards distant: before I got half morning launched the canoes through until my arrival here did the bone way, the men lay down, saying they the broken ice, and crossed over to the unite, and then so awkwardly as to could not possibly go further; I en• city. You would have been much leave a very considerable lump on my deavoured by every persuasion to cheer diverted to see the Canadians in the hand; I have lost the use of my knuckle, them, and succeeded in getting about but can use the finger, as you may see one-half to accompany me. We reached by my writing. it about nine o'clock at night, almost The first day of our march from Que• fainting, a distance of 21 miles. The Editorial Lauds bec, stopped for the night at St. Augus• following morning, having sent all the Ships9 Companies tine, 15 miles distant from that city. midshipmen in search of the men, got The following is an editorial which On the 3d, at Cape Sante, 15 miles. them all collected, but out of 110, only appeared in the New York Herald - On the 4th, at Grondines, 18 miles. On 10 able to proceed on the march; I was Tribune of September 6: the 5th, at Baptisca, 16 miles. On the therefore obliged to halt for a day to MAGNIFICENT GESTURE 6th, arrived at Trois Rivieres 21 miles; recruit them. The next morning, being "It is always a pleasure to welcome this is considered the third river in the 15th of February, renewed our the ships and the men of the Royal Canada. I did not halt here, but march, leaving a midshipman and 12 Canadian Navy to New York. But sel- marched three miles beyond it, to avoid men behind sick, chiefly frost bitten. .dom have any visitors to the city paid their footing (to use an old naval term the trouble of collecting the people, as The three following nights slept in the that has been taken into the landman's I knew they were too tired to walk woods, after going each day about 15 language) in so generous a fashion as back that distance. On the 7th, stopped miles on the river Madawaska, where, the crews of the cruiser Quebec and at Machiche, 15 miles. On the 8th, at the carrier Magnificent. One hundred finding the ice in many places broken Masquinonge, 16 miles. On the 9th, at through. I made the men take the and seventy-three men of the two ships postponed their first day's liberty here Berthier, 17 miles. On the 10th, at La banks of the river, but continued on to donate blood to the American Red Valtre, 15 miles. On the 11th, at Reper- the ice all the way myself. On the 18th, Cross. With the scarcity of gamma rigue, 15 miles; and the next morning crossed the Lake Tamasquata: it was globulin, the blood derivative used to marched through Montreal to La Chiene, combat poliomyelitis, fresh in every here we were apprehensive of being 12 miles beyond it. On passing the cut off by the enemy, being in the ter• New Yorker's mind, this very personal gift from the Canadian should insure monument erected to the memory of ritory of the United States; however, additional respect for the men in the the immortal Lord Nelson, halted, and we did not fall in with them. On the white uniforms who are now ashore. gave three cheers, which much pleased They have indeed earned the freedom 19th, commenced our march across the the inhabitants. Grande Portage, or neck of land be• of the city. From Montreal to this place we were tween the above lake and the river St. "Many years ago, when some British eleven days performing a journey of Lawrence; this was dreadfully fatiguing, ships were under hot fire from hostile guns, the commander of an American 190 miles; the places where we stopped continually marching up and down hill, squadron came to their aid, dismissing I have not noted, as we seldom found and the snow upwards of five feet deep. his technical neutrality with the his• a village, but mostly scattered houses, The other division being ahead, was toric remark: 'Blood is thicker than inhabited by all nations, viz. English, very serviceable to us by their tread• water.' The Canadians have given a new meaning to the old phrase in a Scotch, Dutch, American, and a few ing the snow down, which made a small day when blood banks are arsenals French. We passed several tremendous path just sufficient for one man to walk in the universal war against disease. rapids; the Long Son [Sault] in particu• on, but frequently, in slipping our feet To give both ships their due, the blood lar, which was not awfully grand to look donations on the deck of the Quebec formed a truly Magnificent gesture." at. We likewise passed Chrystian's * Although this place is denominated the Grand Falls, the Cataract is a mile distant. (Continued on page 28)

Page sixteen When You're Old and Lame si Worm's-Eye View of The "Div" Course By L. W. T.

"Whew", said Commissioned Writer sioned Officer (SB) Donovan File- other and shined our shining boots on Officer A. L. G. Hayley, as he stood wood winced slightly. the backs of our trousers. However, dripping wet, tired and cold, "I'm glad Nor were they kidding. It wasn't we had a lesson in store. That first that's over. It really wasn't so hard, too arduous. The first day that is, and subsequent inspections proved we although I had my doubts at the smoke- when we were taken on a tour of the had not been critical enough. hut, and once I nearly got -stuck in establishment—by bus. That was our Commander Phillips went over us the barbed wire trap." first and last bus ride in Cornwallis. with a fine-tooth comb. He discovered But I'm getting ahead of myself. I didn't mind the PT. In fact, I pre• that boots were not as shiny as his, It was six weeks ago that the twelve ferred it because, when I was doing PT, medal ribbons were either worn or of us first came together in HMCS Corn- I was too tired to notice my aching crooked or both (replace them at once wallis as a body. On Friday, September muscles. The first week was fairly easy. or sooner), Canada badges faded and 11, 1953, we sat in a classroom at the At battalion drill we merely looked on improperly sewn on and, in fact, noth• Leadership School, a certain amount of and observed that the company and pla• ing was right. Oh well, the first day fear and doubt reflected in every eye, toon commanders could get into some he's bound to find something. He found and were told by the Officer-in- perplexing situations. It was scream• something the second day, too, and the Charge, Commander Raymond Phillips, ingly funny. The first week. At this third, and when he tired of finding fault that we formed the 24th Officers' Divi• stage, too, we were all reintroduced to he was relieved by the Course Officer, sional Course and that it actually wasn't the intricacies of squad drill and by Lieut.-Cdr. Jack Panabaker. as rigid as it was made out, although Friday the creak of boots had been But, as I indicated earlier the first he regretted the casualties in previous drowned out by the creak of stiffening week wasn't too difficult and (three classes. muscles. Commissioned Writer Officer months later in relative time) it passed Then he introduced Captain James George Harvey, was the first class- in seven days. Moving into the second Plomer, Commanding Officer, Cornwal• leader. week, PT became stiffer, squad drill lis, who said, "It is unquestionably a Inspection, we discovered, was car• a little over nine pounds (one rifle) very good course but it must be getting ried out daily. The first morning we heavier and for battalion drill we be• softer, because the last class lost only smiled smugly and critically checked came platoon petty officers. Platoon two men". Across the room Commis• every detail, brushed lint off each POs just follow people around. It was in this second week that we played a little game through Nova Scotia's jungles. A field day, complete with food packs and a map of the area, took us some miles from friendly Corn• wallis to guard an atomic plant (which turned out to be a sawmill). In late evening we returned to Cornwallis to prevent any of the enemy from get• ting back. Cornwallis looked good that night. Don't believe the story that no one was limping the following day. The second week also saw us getting a little deeper into our lectures on Sea War• fare, Action First Aid and many other subjects. Night work in the form of lectures and debates became more fre• quent. The third week proved that we weren't any great shakes as water polo players. In fact Commissioned Gunner Gilliam A. Byatt, who saw it all from the balcony at the gymnasium where he was nursing a broken wrist sus• tained in the first week, said we were terrible. This week also showed our ineptitude on the range with Sten gun and pistol, although Commissioned Radio Officer William Smith did get a few bullets through the target. Sub-Lieut. (S) George White claimed that Smith

Page seventeen poked the holes with a pencil while up proved that 24 Course did stand out in getting the target from the butts, but one sport. We won every game of the allegation was never proved. volleyball except one. We played three. As we moved into the fourth week We had taken turns at general drills, speculation was rife as to the probable bossing each other around, and, if rig• date of the Obstacle or Assault course. ging sheerlegs to cross an electric fence When anyone asked about this particu• or making a raft out of barrels had lar part of the training he was greeted been for real, I'm not sure we'd have with sly smiles and leering looks, as been alive now. if to say, "Listen, buster, you'd better And so we arrived at the climax of get in shape before you even think the course. As I said, the morning was about THAT part of the course". cheerless in prospect. And cold. This However, in the fourth week we did was the sixth week. We piled into the move closer to this goal. We were truck and assembled near the assault treated to another field day. In this course. one we changed sides and the former The class was divided into two teams. guards became escaped prisoners and Lieut.-Cdr. Panabaker became the heck• vice-versa. Once again we tramped for ler for one team and Commander Phil• miles through jungle, marsh and bog, lips and Lieut. V. C. Johnson hecklers forded swift streams and crawled along for the other. We started. It wasn't dusty roads. In battalion drill, we were too laborious though. I mean if you promoted. We all became platoon com• look at it objectively. The first trap manders and discovered to our horror was a water and barbed wire one. You that people were standing where we go through the water under the barbed had stood in the first week and were wire. The first twelve-foot wall wasn't laughing, actually laughing, at our ef• so tough either, as long as your rifle forts. But Lieut.-Cdr. G. A. Penney was guarded from the heckler, and all didn't mean to turn his platoon the men got over the wall. Just three walls wrong way. Follow Me left, all uphill. At the third wall it's In the fifth week most of us became rather difficult to get a leg over the top (Sung to the tune of "You Belong Company Second - in - Command, which after your teammates have struggled to to Me") was a cinch. The company commander get you up there. The fourth wall is does all the work and the screaming Do a Div. Course when you're old and worse. lame, GIs and other instructors on the parade Stretch your muscles till they rack After the walls, it's all uphill to the were only trying to get us rattled. They with pain, smoke hut. Gasping for breath from did, too. But the much vaunted (we Try to sleep at night, but all in vain, the long run it seemed suicide to dive were sneering openly about it now) Dreaming, "Follow me!" into the open window of a hut belching assault course was still being held in Hearing lectures and some dry debate, thick clouds of smoke. Inside, breath• reserve. We had passed through many Points on leadership in verbal spate, ing was a little restricted. If you phases, carried out sword drill and Playing hockey 'tho you cannot skate, couldn't find the exit through the smoke, Screaming, "Follow Me!" taken turns at first and second officers you'd suffocate. Therefore, we all found of the guard for colours. Commissioned There must be a reason for it, the exit. After the smoke-hut it was Commissary Officer Jack Keating was Else we wouldn't suffer so— child's play to crawl through a barbed We know. good at it, too, which proves that wire entanglement while hecklers rolled the gunnery people had better look Crossing bridges and an ice-bound boulders down from above. to their laurels. Friday of the fifth lake, Over obstacle and picket gate, Then came the rifle ranges. Six week and the final syllabus was posted. Miss yooir turning and arrive back late, rounds of -303 and each round had to There, smack in the middle of week Screaming, "Follow me!" go through the target. A charge of six, was the assault course. Tension —Composed and sung by the 20th 100 yards over the butts and through mounted and talk dulled to whispers. Officers' Leadership Course, HMCS a bulldozed pile of trees and brush The sixth week dawned cold and Cornwallis, February 9 to March 21, many yards long followed. 1953. cheerless. Tuesday it rained and Up to this point it had been simple. weather forecasts were followed with Now, we hopped over a few picket avid, albeit morbid, interest. Sugges• fences about five or six feet high, tions that it might snow and the "It isn't that I'm afraid but I'm over climbed over a 20-foot scramble net assault course be cancelled were met thirty-five. You fellows all remember that swayed some 10 or 15 feet from hopefully. Except by Course Officers celebrating my birthday last week. side to side and jumped up and down who said, "Cancel it for snow? Or Regulations. Thirty-five you know, most annoyingly, then on to more picket frost? Or rain, or hail, or Hell? No!! don't have to go." And so he went, fences, through another entanglement We chop holes in the ice". Commis• along with the rest of us. But I'm of barbed wire and finally arrived at sioned Gunner (TAS) E. L. Ander• getting ahead of myself. a Burma Bridge. Three thin strands son confirmed it too. Claims he saw During the past five weeks we had of wire, two waist high, spanned the them do it a couple years ago. Tues• been lectured on many things including gorge. A small creek wound its way day night was long. It got colder. supply, regulations, communications, far, far below. We couldn't find a Towards morning a chilling drizzle radio, torpedo, anti-submarine, and in• ladder to get up to the bridge and the began. It kept on. And on, and on. structional technique. We had seen the branches had been removed from the "I'm safe anyway," said Commis• new entries at work and at play and trunk of the tree. However, tired as sioned Gunner (TAS) C. N. Stroud. taken part in many sports. We also (Continued on page 28)

Page eighteen NEW RATES OF PAY Wider Paths SINGLE MEN to

PAY AND RANK BASIC PAY SUBSISTENCE Trade Pay (Standard Group) Standard Group NAVY ARMY RCAF OLD NEW OLD NEW A new light has been shone on the Recruit under 17 44 46 105 107 path to promotion and pay. Ord. Sea. Pte AC 2 87 92 148 153 No longer need a seaman find him• Ord. Sea. Pte 2 CI AC1 91 96 152 157 (Trained) self in a blind alley, barred from par• AB Pte 1 CI LAC 98 107 159 168 ticipating in the higher levels of trade Ldg. Sea. Cpl. Cpl. 112 127 173 188 pay, simply because there is no require• PO 2 Sgt. Sgt. 129 144 201 216 ment for higher levels of training in PO 1 S/Sgt. F/Sgt. 150 165 231 246 a particular trade. Furthermore, the CPO 2 WO II WO II 174 195 255 276 CPO 1 WO I WO I 193 224 285 316 special skills of seamanship have at least been recognized as meriting recog• nition in the trades pay scheme. PAY AND SUBSISTENCE ALLOWANCE AND TRADES PAY These developments are an outgrowth of something that happened about three TRADE TRADE TRADE TRADE years ago when 4,000 copies of a Job GROUP 1 GROUP 2 RANK GROUP 3 GROUP 4 Analysis questionnaire were distributed

OLD NEW OLD NEW OLD NEW OLD NEW to the Fleet. Far from being filed away and forgotten, as some of those who Under 17 — — — — — filled them in may have suspected, the Ord. Sea. 154 163 163 178 178 198 188 213 pamphlets were gone over with a fine- (Trained) 158 167 167 182 182 202 192 217 AB 165 178 174 193 189 213 199 228 tooth comb by the Naval Job Analysis Ldg. Sea. 179 198 188 213 203 233 213 248 Committee of the Personnel Board at PO 2 207 226 216 241 231 261 241 276 Naval Headquarters. The committee PO 1 237 256 246 271 261 291 271 306 sorted the information, condensed it and CPO 2 261 286 270 301 285 321 295 336 CPO 1 291 326 300 341 315 361 325 376 produced a comprehensive list of the duties, tasks and responsibilities for each trade at each working level. It MARRIED MEN also produced a companion list of the knowledges and skills required to be PAY AND carried out by the various naval duties. RANK BASIC PAY SUBSISTENCE The next step was for each branch (Standard Group) Standard Group to send specialist officers or senior NAVY ARMY RCAF tradesmen to work with the committee OLD NEW OLD NEW and produce trade specifications.

Ord. Sea. Pte AC 2 87 92 208 213 These specifications have been com• Ord. Sea. Pte 2 CI AC1 91 96 212 217 pleted and approved and are in course (Trained) of publication as a "Manual of Advance• AB Pte 1 CI LAC 98 107 219 228 ment and Promotion" for distribution Ldg. Sea. Cpl. Cpl. 112 127 233 248 PO 2 Sgt. Sgt. 129 144 250 265 throughout the Fleet as BRCN 113. For PO 1 S/Sgt. F/Sgt. 150 165 271 286 the first time, the trade structure of the CPO 2 WO II WO II 174 195 295 316 Royal Canadian Navy has been clearly CPO 1 WO I WO I 193 224 325 356 outlined in a single volume and the publication will not only provide an ex• PAY AND SUBSISTENCE ALLOWANCE PLUS TRADES PAY AND cellent guide to employment, but will MARRIAGE ALLOWANCE be of value in recruiting and other fields.

TRADE TRADE TRADE TRADE During the course of the job analysis GROUP 1 GROUP 2 GROUP 3 GROUP 4 project, it became apparent that in some RANK cases the trade grouping allowed for a OLD NEW OLD NEW OLD NEW OLD NEW trade was not high enough to compen• Ord. Sea. 214 223 223 238 238 258 248 273 sate for the skills and knowledge re• (Trained) 218 227 227 242 242 262 252 277 quired. It also was evident that the AB 225 238 234 253 249 273 259 288 skills of the seamen should not be ig• Ldg. Sea. 239 258 248 273 263 293 273 308 nored in considering the work done by PO 2 256 275 265 290 280 310 290 325 PO 1 277 296 286 311 301 331 311 346 men holding non-substantive qualifica• CPO 2 301 326 310 341 325 361 335 376 tions in the Seaman Branch. Accord• CPO 1 331 366 340 381 355 401 365 416 ingly, detailed specifications were writ• ten, covering all seaman duties, to be

Page nineteen considered along with the non-substan• tive specifications (eg., gunnery, tor• pedo-anti-submarine, radar plot, etc.) North of Sixty-Eight in appraising the value of all seaman trades. New Barracks Block Similar surveys were under way in Houses Sailors the Army and Air Force and the three in Aklavik services had the co-operation of the de• fence Research Board in devising an evaluation method for the various "There she is . . . right off your star• periods begin about the first week of trades. This was applied to all naval board bow, as the Navy says ... no October and April respectively, and last trades and the score allotted each bigger than a dime, but your home for a good two months each. The worst trade takes into consideration necessary the next few years." part of these times is that they mean knowledge, mental requirements, physi• This remark came from the Norseman no mail-call, which in itself can cal skill, scope of action and other fac• pilot as we settled for a steep bank and prove disheartening to those who look tors. The trades evaluation was carried a rapid descent to a resting place on the for that letter from the folks back home. out by a board of 20 officers and senior murky waters of Peel Channel, be• The social activity here is not as men, representing every branch in the side the settlement of Aklavik. It was limited as one would think. Dances are Navy, all of whom had extensive ex• a long and tiring trip, but here we were held regularly and are thoroughly en• perience in naval trades. The Naval at last. Right smack in the northwest joyed by all who attend. Curling is Job Analysis Committee, which directed corner of Canada's great Northwest also a popular pastime and Aklavik the work, then submitted a report and Territories. boasts the most northerly organized bon- recommendations on the evaluation Aklavik, translated from the Eskimo, spiel in North America. Another cog results. in the wheel of entertainment is the means "The meeting place of the Bear" local radio broadcasting station CHAK, The question which immediately arose and is located in the Mackenzie delta on "The Friendly Voice of the Arctic", was how the results were to be used. a horseshoe bend of the Peel Channel, which broadcasts nightly on a frequency Each trade had been assigned its own which is a branch of the Mackenzie of 1,490 Kcs. It is one of Canada's point value and the easiest plan would River itself. Sixty-nine degrees north, most northerly broadcasting stations and have been to establish cut-off points 135 degrees west is the position. beyond which a trade could not advance. does a splendid job. The town's population consists of Es• The trouble with this was, for ex• There are two churches in the area kimos, Indians and whites, numbering ample, that Trade "A" might be rated and an oddity is the fact that the ser• approximately 1,080, 175 and 261 respec• at a maximum value of 74 points while vices on Sunday, which are broadcast tively. The native population lives both Trade "B" was valued at 76 points. If over CHAK, are conducted in three dif• in town and the immediate area, and the cut-off point for Trade Group IV ferent languages, Leucheux, Eskimo and relies mainly on trapping and fishing happened to be 75, the two-point differ• English. as means of livelihood. Seasons here ence in evaluation could result in a in the "Land of the Pale Blue Snow" So far I haven't mentioned a thing difference of hundreds of dollars in are divided into two parts—one of long about our new barracks block. The trades pay over a man's career. Actu• nights which includes two months of building houses a large and well- ally, the two trades would be worth al• complete or near complete darkness; the equipped galley, to say nothing of a most identical pay. other, a period of long days, with two spacious messdeck and recreational Under the system which was adopted months of unbroken daylight. space. The galley and messdeck are effective October 1, 1953, the best men located at one end of the building, As for our temperatures in both sum• in all trades will have an opportunity while the remainder is taken up by the mer and winter up here, well, I'm of reaching Trade Group IV. The mini• two-man cabins, furnace room, laundry afraid that you are due for somewhat mum times for advancement have been room, showers, etc. of a surprise. In spite of our northerly set to reflect the evaluation scores Construction of the building took a location, we are not snowed-in all the (high-scoring trades will advance more good part of the short summer, but it year around. True, we do see quite a bit rapidly than low-scoring trades), modi• was completed toward the end of Au• of snow during the winter months, but fied slightly in some cases by branch gust, and the early part of September ordinary cold weather at this time of requirements. In a small number of saw it opened in grand style with a year is between 20 and 30 degrees be• cases transfers to related trades will be banquet and dance for all hands. Tables necessary to attain the higher trade low zero, with the bottom dropping out were set up in the messdeck and the groupings. of the thermometer every now and then married personnel and their families to register 50 to 60 below. More sur• The new trade specifications have also joined us in a hearty and well-prepared prising still is the relatively high tem• involved the amendment of training chicken dinner. There were a lot of perature of 50 to 70 above during syllabi or the production of new ones. satisfied-looking faces and few loose The training syllabi will be published mid-summer, when we are plagued with belts after the final course. mosquitoes and black flies. in a separate volume, BRCN 3001(B). The tables and chairs were then re• Contact with the outside is naturally moved and, while the evening was still quite limited. Canadian Pacific Airlines young, a dance got underway. We didn't runs weekly scheduled flights into Ak• have Tony Martin and his orchestra or Editor's Note: The pay rates listed lavik from Edmonton, but the schedule such, but we had many of the latest in the table accompanying the foregoing is interrupted twice yearly by "Old Man dance tunes. article are those effective December 1, Weather". During freeze-up and break• It was an evening of fun that at last 1953, as announced by Defence Minister up of the river it is impossible for an made us feel thoroughly at home in Claxton on November 20. aircraft to pay a visit to Aklavik. These the Arctic.—C.P.L.

Page twenty "Jt's the Spirit game 34-26, but a report indicates con• Admiral R. E. S. Bidwell, Flag Officer That Counts" ditions were more suitable for water Atlantic Coast, a boxer himself in days polo. The final result, despite all these gone by. He presented the awards in• Hong Kong was luckier than Manila efforts by the Athabaskan, had Sangley cluding special prizes to Ord. Sea. Ken• or Kure for Athabaskan softball play• Point winning a tennis match. neth L. McNorgan and Ord. Sea. Donald ers for it was the scene of their sole As the "Athabulletin" summed it up: E. Milks. Finale to the evening's enter• victory in six games played in the Far "It's the spirit that counts." tainment was a fencing match between Eastern ports. CPO Reginald Pitt and CPO Raymond In Hong Kong, the team nipped a Sheena Division Ellison. 14- 13 win over the Kowloon Warriors, a Portuguese team. Against Sangley Boxers Score Point (Manila) they dipped 14-8 and Skeena Division, with 34 points won York Captures 15- 6. Against US Military Port of the inter-divisional boxing finals at Indoor Opener Manila (USAF) they were downed Cornwallis in September. Rainbow and York officers made an auspicious de• 15-2. USCGC Forster took the team Kootenay Divisions were close astern but in their opener of the indoor base• 12-9 in Manila. with 32 and 30 points. ball season by drubbing the Governor "This was a much more evenly Winners were as follows: Ord. Sea. General's Horse Guards 7-1 on Octo• matched game than the others and Paul J. Archambault (flyweight), Ord. ber 28. showed good ball all around", according Sea. Philip M. Gabriel (bantam), Ord. Several weeks of practice under coach to the final edition of the "Athabul- Sea. Rock J. Rivard (feather), Ord. Hank Hanson paid off. Lieut. (S) letin". "The team was later humbled by Sea. Robert W. McLay (light), Ord. Sea. D'Arcy Quinn as winning pitcher had the Canadian Army in Kure to the tune Leroy Hurst (welter), Ord. Sea. Lome the Horse Guards handcuffed most of of 15-8". Hurst (middle), Ord. Sea. Robert E. the way. Lieut. (L) Derek Bate set Sangley Point beat Athabaskans 65-22 Murray (light-heavy), and Ord. Sea. the pace at bat with a homer and four at basketball and the Philippine Navy James D. Williams, (heavyweight). runs batted in, while Sub-Lieut. (S) took another contest 43-39. The Cana• The bouts were fought during the an• Ross Brown and Cadet (S) Ron Gray dians triumphed, however, in a return nual inspection of Cornwallis by Rear- garnered a pair of singles apiece. The "team excelled defensively, especially Sub-Lieut. (S) Lome Lodge and Lieut. Jake Howard at short stop and third base respectively. In their second game on November 7 they threw a scare into the perennial champions, the Irish, by forcing the latter into an extra inning before los• ing 9-8. Again Quinn pitched steady ball and deserved a better fate. Derek Bate got a pair of doubles, Lieut. (E) Bruce Gilbert batted three runs in and Lieut. (L) Dave Bate hit two singles.

Supply School "B" Cock of Barracks Supply School "B" team won Naden's summer Cock of the Barracks trophy with a total of 63£ points. The program wound up with the interpart soccer championship. This went to MTE, who eked out a 1-0 win over the Supply squad by virtue of a penalty shot in the second half. MTE had lost only one of the scheduled seven games. The win placed them in second spot with 55i points for the summer trophy and the combined TAS-Electrical team Rear-Admiral R. E. S. Bidwell, Flag Officer Atlantic Coast, presents the Cornwallis Inter-Divi• followed closely with 54. The remain• sional Boxing Trophy to Ord. Sea. Lornie Hurst, Amhersiburg, Ont., captain of the winning team ing teams finished in this order: Supply from Skeena Division. Hurst won his own bout with a first round knockout over Ord. Sea. K. McNorgan, London, Ont., of Rainbow Division. (DB-3436) School "A"—52, Naden Cooks and Writ-

Page twenty-one ers—50, Medical, Communication and take the next three games. Shearwater ND School—42£, Stores and Stewards then eliminated Windsor two straight in — 40, Gunnery and Ordnance — 37£ a two-out-of-three series. points. They also downed Walton and Green• The winter Cock of the Barracks field in straight games and rode a nine- competitions started on October 19 with game winning streak after taking the eight teams competing. Volleyball, playoff trial. hockey, badminton, and bowling make up the pre-Christmas schedule with Cornwallis Swim basketball, -22 shooting and a second Program Recoils half of hockey beginning in January. HMCS Cornwallis is nigh to being synonymous with water sports, but the Tractor Section program has backfired. Tops Softball League Water polo tournaments, plus the The Interpart Softball League sche• monthly swimming meets, have turned dule at Shearwater finished with Trac• out so many experts that the training tor Section on top, with only one loss establishment's own swimming and during league play. They met Supply water polo teams have been unable to in the finals. beat the competition it sends to the fleet. Tractor Section eliminated Works As part of the new entry training and Bricks in two straight by the scores program, the P and RT department of 9-0 and 35-5. Supply eliminated arranges two knockout water polo SNAM in two straight by the scores tournaments a month. There is stiff of 14-12 and 16-10. competition and maximum improve• Proud possessors of a coveted trophy are ment, therefore, in ability. This was members of this new entry swimming team at proved recently in the Atlantic Com• Shearwater Nine "Cornwallis". Members of "Huron" division, the mand water polo championships when aquatic stars captured top honours in a recent Has Good Season Ord. Sea. Patrick Ambrose, who left swim meet held at the naval training establish• ment. Front row, left to right: Ordinary Sea• Shearwater had a successful season Cornwallis in August, scored the last men Albert Blanche, Hamilton, Ont.; Earl Mor• in baseball and advanced to the pro• moment winning goal for Stadacona in rison, Montreal; Paul MacBean, St. Catharines, vincial finals against New Waterford, a hard-fought 9-8 battle. During Ont., and Wayne Morgan, Hamilton. Back row: Cape Breton. August, 320 men participated in this Ordinary Seamen Gordon Rafter, Hamilton; Ralph They eliminated Halifax Shamrocks rigorous sport at Cornwallis. Collins, Vancouver; William Armstrong, Medicine Hat, Alta.; Gordon Johnson, Toronto, and Joseph in a three-out-of-five game series. In September's tourney, the highly- Winters, Welland, Ont. (DB-3321) Shamrocks took the first game 6-3 only touted Restigouche team dropped in to have Shearwater come back and the semi-finals to young apprentices of Champlain Division who went on to beat St. Laurent 9-8 for the New Entry Vice-Admiral E. R. Mainguy, Chief of the Naval Staff, was awarded the first certificate presented championship. Restigouche took the at Cornwallis under a new system of swimming proficiency awards. He earned it. Still dripping New Entry swimming meet by a safe wet in a seaman's white duck uniform, Admiral Mainguy is shown receiving the certificate from Lieut.-Cdr. H. E. Taylor, officer in charge of the Cornwallis Physical and Recreational Training School. margin, however, winning 36 points to Captain James Plomer, commanding officer of Cornwallis, is an onlooker. (DB-3506) Skeena's 25 and Vancouver's 17. Cornwallis also sent a team to the Nova Scotia Outdoor Meet in Halifax where Ord. Sea. Thomas V. Ange won the 100-yard breast stroke event and Ord. Sea. Wilbert J. Starr placed second in the 100-yard free style. CPO Albert Trepanier of Cornwallis, who is presi• dent of the Nova Scotia Amateur Swim• ming Association, presented trophies to the winning teams—Stadacona's men's team and the Waegwoltic Ladies' Swim• ming Club.

Westsides Too Good for York They tried hard, but York softballers failed to stop Toronto Westsides from gaining their fifth consecutive Civil Service League championship. Yorkers won the first game in the best-of-three finals and prospects of wresting the cup from Westsides looked excellent. The Navy team lost the next two, but gained the distinction at least of being a finalist for the second year running. Supply Repeats Softball Triumph The Supply department won Stada- cona's inter-departmental Softball cham• pionship for the second consecutive year by downing the highly-rated MTEs in a tough best-of-five series. Supply took the first two contests 11-0 and 11-3. They took a reverse in the third session when MTE finished 11-6. The final game had both teams battling to the line, but Supply finished on the better end of a 12-10 score to take the title three games to one. The "scribes" had finished third in the regular playing schedule. They took two straight from Electrical School in the best-of-three semi-finals.

Sports Arranged For U.S. Warships A heavy program of sports was ar• ranged by the P and RT staff at Stada• cona for the numerous United States warships visiting port in recent months. A few of the sports and scores are Stadacona'5 Supply department copped the inter-departmental softball championship for the as follows: second consecutive season. Front row, left to right: AB Louis Carveth, PO Douglas Newton and Baseball—USS Chas. R. Ware 10, Sta- AB Charles Conrad; second row, AB Donald Choate, PO Charles Quirback, PO Mike Bidnock, AB dacona 17; Basketball—USS Hawkins Harvey Hunt, and Sub-Lieut. Joe Duffy (coach); back row, Commander (S) Ray Bowditch, AB Arn 39, Stadacona 40; USS Hickox 40, RCN Riches, AB Mikle Manak, PO Cliff Laytham and Cd. Wtr. Officer Arnold Steed (manager). (HS-27205) Cadets 61; Softball—USS Bennington 2, Stadacona 3; USS Hale 5, Stadacona 2; Tennis—Bennington, 3 sets, RCN Cadets How Canadian Football Won one set. Its Maritime Spurs Two Titles Won By Cornwallis In less than a decade Canadian foot• died in an Avenger crash that year. ball has caught hold in the Maritimes After five failures in the title quest, The Cornwallis softball team was tied — an English rugger stronghold — and the Shearwater team handed Stadacona for first place in the Annapolis Valley within very few years it promises to a humiliating 65-6 drubbing for the League schedule, but trounced all, in• be the top spectator sport there, due championship. The Flyers went on to cluding RCAF Greenwood, in the final largely to the Navy. defeat St. Thomas College, Chatham, playoffs. Big time Canadian football was in• N.B., 14-5 in a sudden death final for The baseball team didn't fare as well. troduced to the East Coast during the the first Maritime Canadian football The Navy nine reached the playoffs, but war when Navy teams with the cream title. again, as in the schedule, they suc• of "Upper Canada" talent fought his• The focal centres of the Canadian cumbed to the greater strength of the toric struggles on the gridiron of the game in the Maritimes have been Hali• team from nearby Bear River. Navy League Rec' Centre. fax and Moncton, N.B. Naval Radio The ladies' softball team outclassed After the war, the game stuck. A Station Coverdale, near the latter city, all competition in their valley league, Halifax District League was formed and entered a team in 1949 and since then winning handily, with only one loss in included Stadacona and the Dartmouth has provided players for a tri-service the schedule. Naval Air Station. Stadacona won the squad in the Moncton and District In the Cornwallis interpart league, first four years running until 1951 when League. chief and petty officers won over ship's Shearwater edged them from the finals. A concentrated publicity program, company 11-9 in a sudden death game The Flyers were grounded in turn in a smart bands (with Stadacona's band that went seven innings. muddy contest at Studley field 5 to 0 formations and Wren cheerleaders defi• by Dalhousie University Tigers. It was nite attractions) and half-time high Ex-Marine Wins in that season that Cornwallis fielded jinks have boosted the game in Halifax. Cornwallis Run the third Navy team, which expanded In the current season, at a Stadacona- The October cross-country run at the game into a Nova Scotia League. Dalhousie session, turnstiles clicked Cornwallis was won by Ord. Sea. Cyril The year 1952 saw the first game more that 3,000 times for a record Heaton, former Royal Marines corporal, under lights in Eastern Canada when Canadian football attendance in Hali• who was closely followed by Ord. Sea. Stadacona beat Shearwater 12-11 in the fax. No English rugger game in Nova George Elliott, running his first race and Mike Milovick Memorial Game in Dart• Scotia could claim as many spectators. not knowing he had to break the tape mouth to start the season. It was held In operation for the first time this to win. The time was 17 minutes, 2 to commemorate Lieut. (L) Milovick, season is a Nova Scotia Junior Football seconds. starry Shearwater quarterback, who League with teams from Stadacona,

Page twenty-three Shearwater, St. Mary's University and the Dartmouth Rams. Some clubs spon• sored junior teams in recent years but 1953 marked the first well-organized effort to exploit them. They also form good grist for the senior squads. Other Maritime universities are con• sidering Canadian football for the first time. St. Francis Xavier University is expected to enter either a senior or junior team next year. The FXs will be followed by other colleges, it is felt. Stadacona holds the lead in training gimmicks. Coach this year was Ord• nance Lieut. Don Loney, with ten years experience in the game, the last five with Ottawa Rough Riders. He was voted all-Canadian snap in 1949 and 1950 was awarded the Jeff Russell Memorial Trophy as the player with the best combination of courage, sports• manship and clean play in the "Big Four". In 1951 he was co-captain of the Rough Riders when they won the Grey Cup. Loney has brought a few Big Four tricks into his mentor methods. One is oxygen for winded players; another Partial disability due to a car accident wasn't an insurmountable handicap for Lieut.-Cdr. F. is offensive and defensive platoons, a Clem Pettit, offlcer-in-charge of Stadacona's P and RT School, who rode a bicycle around the Digby third is ten minutes of recorded band Pines golf course to win for the second successive year the Oland and Keith Rosebowl Trophy in music as pre-game therapy for the team. the 1953 Atlantic Command golf championships with a low gross of 90. Commander Raymond Phillips, Cornwallis, presents him with the well-earned trophy. (DB-3434) These, plus movies and photographs and a weekly open letter to the team stress• they have the advantage of expert He used the wheel to go around the ing important points for the next game, swimming instructors. course because of injuries he received have had their results. On September 3, 85 children of Shan• in a car accident some time previously. Stadacona rushed through the league non Park and Cornwallis housing com• His bad leg prevented a good swing schedule undefeated and swamped Dal- peted in 66 events. They were divided with a wood, so he used his No. 2 iron housie Tigers 39-0 for the title. into seven different age groups. Ribbons for driving. were awarded to the first three in each Lieut.-Cdr. Pettit won the trophy for Navy's Juniors event. Final score was Cornwallis 209, low gross, shooting a 46 and 44. Next Starry Swimmers Shannon Park 102. came Lt.-Col. H. L. Harris, RCDC, Sooner or later, every man in the Outstanding performers were Betty Stadacona, with 42 and 50. Royal Canadian Navy is expected to Dennis {15 and over), Stanley Peakman There were 36 entries, including two (under nine), who won five ribbons, have stamped on his personal documents nurses, taking part in the goodly repre• and Billy Leggatt (under 10), all of the symbols that mean he has passed sentation from Stadacona, Cornwallis, Cornwallis. Exceptional swimmers from his swimming test. Shearwater, and HMC Ship's. No handicap faces children of Navy Shannon Park were Janice Jackson Also finishing in first division was families living at Shannon Park or in (under 15) and Sharon Moore (under Lieut.-Cdr. A. H. Slater, Stadacona, with the Cornwallis housing project. They 12). After all this mighty exertion, the a low net of 72. Tied for second lowest have access to some of the finest pools young swimmers dined on turkey and net were Lieut.-Cdr. John H. Beeman, in Eastern Canada, those at the Stada• attended a show in the recreation centre. Shearwater, and Lieut. Charlie Rhodes, cona and Cornwallis gymnasiums and The competitions were organized in 1947 by CPO Trepanier to strengthen Cornwallis. the Navy Junior Swimming Team. Instructor Commander R. S. Martin, Fog Gobbles Up Assisting him this year in their realiza• Cornwallis, and CPO Robert L. Henry, tion was Chaplain (P) Thomas L. Jack• Tennis Balls Stadacona, tied for low gross, second son, Stadacona. division. Lieut. R. J. McClymont, Shear• Fluorescent tennis balls hold promise water, shot low net. Sub-Lieut. (MN) of a fortune for some aggressive West Coast salesman. Golfer Rides to Olive Gloster, Stadacona, had ladies' Petty Officers Roy Eldridge and Ken Title on Bicycle low gross. Nordlinger took on Petty Officers Allan Hidden hole low with a hole-in-two Horn and Harold Bingham for a noon- A bicycle helped Lieut.-Cdr. F. Clem hour tennis match on a foggy October Pettit, officer-in-charge of Stadacona's was won by Instructor Cdr. J. D. Arm• day at the Naden courts. P and RT School, to win for the sec• strong, Stadacona, and hidden hole high At start of play, they had a supply ond time in succession the Oland and went to Sub-Lieut. (MT) J. C. Ross, of six balls. Before they finished all Keith Rosebowl Trophy in the 1953 Stadacona. The special prize was but two had vanished into the Pacific Atlantic Command golf championships awarded to Sub-Lieut. (MN) Barbara "sunshine". at Digby Pines in late September. J. Barry, Stadacona.

Page twenty-four Book Review The Story of the "Charioteers" Canadian Naval Officer One of First to Ride "Chariot"

There was a hint of chagrin in the The blow was all the more bitter be• in the harbour with which they hoped memorandum which Prime Minister cause the Barham had been torpedoed to ignite the oil fuel released by the Winston Churchill sent to General Ismay and sunk on November 25 in the East• explosions." for the' attention of the Chiefs of Staff ern Mediterranean and the Prince of There was little wonder that the Committee on January 18, 1942: Wales and Repulse were lost off Malaya Royal Navy wished to even the score. "Please report what is being done to on December 10, just nine days before A midget submarine was already in emulate the exploits of the Italians in the human torpedoes struck. The Queen course of production, but now it was Alexandria Harbour and similar meth• Elizabeth and Valiant were, in fact, the felt that quicker results might be ob• ods of this kind. last two RN battleships in service in tained if the development of human "At the beginning of the war Colonel the Mediterranean. torpedoes was also started. The Royal Jefferis had a number of bright ideas Yet Admiral of the Fleet Viscount Navy called them "chariots" and they on this subject, which received very Cunningham, then Commander-in-Chief were designed to be ridden by a crew little encouragement. Is there any Mediterranean, who was thrown five of two in "frogman" diving suits. reason why we should be incapable of feet from the deck by the explosion The first "charioteers" (they did not the same kind of scientific aggressive beneath the Queen Elizabeth, was later know what they had volunteered for) action that the Italians have shown? to write: assembled for training in April 1942. One would have thought we should "One cannot but admire the cold• The first "chariot" put to sea on a trial have been in the lead. blooded bravery and enterprise of these run shortly afterward. Astride it were "Please state the exact position." Italians. Everything had been carefully Lieut. C. E. (Chuck) Bonnell, DSC, What Churchill referred to as the thought out and planned. Tins of cal• RCNVR, and Stoker Petty Officer "Jim" "exploits of the Italians", accomplished cium carbide were even found floating Warren. with "human torpedoes", had won the Lieut. Bonnell, a native of Toronto, ungrudging admiration of their victims, joined the RCNVR in 1938 and was even as had the feat of U-boat com• loaned to the RN in 1940. He won the mander Gunther Prien, who had slipped Distinguished Service Cross as com• into the supposedly impregnable anchor• manding officer of a motor torpedo boat age of Scapa Flow and torpedoed the which torpedoed an enemy supply ship Royal Oak. in the Channel in 1941. He served on As First Lord of the Admiralty, human torpedo duties from their be• Churchill had, before the First World ginning until he was reported missing War, rejected the idea of a one-man on active service on January 8, 1943. "human torpedo" as too dangerous for Stoker PO Warren won his commis• the operator and as a weapon unworthy sion and survived the,.war as Lieut. C. of a great power. During the Second E. T. Warren, MBE, RNVR, to collab• World War new weapons and new tac• orate with Sub-Lieut. James Benson, tics had to be adopted to meet new con• RNVR, in writing the story of the ditions and the effectiveness of new midget submarines and human torpe• methods of warfare outweighed too does under the title "Above Us the chivalrous considerations. Waves". At the moment when Churchill penned The officers and men chosen for these his note, powerful German warships lay strange undersea duties were a singu• hidden in the Norwegian fiords, pro• larly courageous and resourceful lot. tected from surface and underwater at• Four of them won the Victoria Cross; 64 tack by shore batteries and nets and others won decorations ranging from the relatively secure from air attack be• BEM to the CBE, plus 100 Mentions in cause of the high mountains surround• Despatches—and that out of a total of ing their lairs. 180 officers and men who actually set The successful Italian attack at Alex• The whim of a tall monarch has given out to attack the enemy. They dis• andria, plus a later abortive attempt on naval officers the exclusive privilege of abled the German battleship Tirpitz in British warships at Gibraltar, offered remaining seated when drinking to the her Norwegian hideout, sank an Italian a clue to an effective means of attack• Sovereign's health. This unique custom is cruiser at Spezia and put a Japanese said to have originated with Charles II, heavy cruiser out of action at Singa• ing the German warships, which in• who as a guest aboard one of HM ships cluded the powerful battleship Tirpitz. bumped his head on the low deckhead pore, plus carrying out numerous other The Alexandria attack on December of the wardroom as he rose to a toast forays which cost the enemy heavily in 19, 1941, was carried out by three to his health. This minor inconvenience ships, men and fighting resources. They caused King Charles to grant his officers human torpedoes, each manned by an had their failures and bitter disappoint• permission to be seated when he was ments, as well, which are recorded along officer and one man. The charges they toasted, and this singular custom has been placed heavily damaged the Queen maintained to this day. Other sources with the victories. Elizabeth and Valiant (battleships), the say the monarch concerned was William The authors consider that the attain• Jervis (destroyer) and the tanker Sagona. IV. ments of the human torpedoes and

Page twenty-five midget submarines would have been even greater had those in high places placed more confidence in them and given them an opportunity to show what they could do. Part of this diffidence, they suggest, was due to those in com• mand hesitating to subject the crews to what seemed like impossible risks. In other cases, it may have been stubborn resistance to innovations. The book, however, does not demand that it be read as a handbook of under• water strategy. It is a human docu• ment, abounding with passages of tense interest and high adventure and it is a worthy memorial to the little band of amphibious fighters who dared deeds of mighty valour.—H.M.C.

"Above Us the Waves" by C.E.T. Warren and James Benson; 256 pages, illustrated; Clarke, Irwim and Co. Ltd., Toronto; $3.15.

DOCTORS AT WAR

"Medicine, like the destructive arts, makes great strides forward during great conflicts." The symbolism of the ship's badge is explained to Sea Cadets visiting on board the Algonquin These words appear in Lieut.-Col. W. during her visit to Montreal. The visitors are Leading Cadets A. Gillis, John Mulcahy and M. R. Feasby's preface to Volume Two of Painter, all of Montreal, and their guide is AB E. L. Dalton, of Augustus, P.E.I. (ML-293) the "Official History of the Canadian Medical Services 1939-1945". The book Lieutenant B. N. Weber, HMCS Cornwallis, WEDDINGS to Miss Audrey Marion Manson, of Victoria. itself details the remarkable medical Ordnance Lieutenant Donald R. Whittemore, Sub - Lieutenant Robin Casgrain Allen, advances of the Second World War as HMCS Naden, to Miss Elaine Laura Ann HMCS Niobe, to Miss Joyce Gwendolyn Bonfield, of Ottawa. they were evident in the three armed Hutton, of Winona, Ont. services. Sub-Lieutenant John Arnott, RCAF Station. Centralia, to Miss Norma Brigden, of North Dr. Feasby, army medical historian Bay. BIRTHS toward the latter part of the war, and Surgeon Commander George William Chap• man, HMCS Naden, to Miss Florence Mary To Lieutenant (S) John D. D. Agnew. previously on active service overseas Kersey Grassick, of Nanaimo, B.C. Naval Headquarters, and Mrs. Agnew, a son. with the Canadian Army Medical Corps, Able Seaman David Leslie Fowler, HMCS To Lieutenant James Burns, Naval Head• is a medical journalist and lecturer in Shearwater, to Miss Rhoda Marguerite Fra- quarters, and Mrs. Burns, a son. lick, of Timmins, Ont. To Petty Officer Roger E. Campbell, HMCS physiology at the University of Toronto. Able Seaman John S. Gordon, HMCS Corn- Cornujallis, and Mrs. Campbell, a son. He is the editor and compiler of the irallis, to Miss Frances M. Isles, of Clements- To Able Seaman Roger R. Carriere, HMCS port, N.S. Cornwallis, and Mrs. Carriere, a son. present volume, entitled "Clinical Sub• Leading Seaman H. Hall, HMCS Portage, to To Leading Seaman J. A. Dibble, HMCS jects". The first published of the two Miss Roselyne McBride, of North Butter- Cornwallis, and Mrs. Dibble, a daughter. volumes, it will be followed at a later field, N.S. To Ordinary Seaman James F. Fleming, Sub-Lieutenant Sylvia Christine Humble, HMCS Cornwallis, and Mrs. Fleming, a date by one dealing with the organiza• HMCS Naden, to Alexander Thomas Satch- daughter. tion, development and campaigns of the well, of Victoria. To Leading Seaman Murray Long, HMCS CPO J. E. Jackson, HMCS Cornwallis, to Stadacona, and Mrs. Long, a daughter. medical and dental services of the armed Miss Helen Daisy Best, of Wolfville, N.S. To Petty Officer R. D. Makara, HMCS Corn• forces and the wartime contributions of Ordinary Wren Lucille Larouche, HMCS wallis, and Mrs. Makara, a son. civilian services. Cornwallis, to Ordinary Seaman Frederich To Able Seaman Ivan McLellan, HMCS Wright, HMCS Cornwallis. Stadacona, and Mrs. McLellan, a son. The book will be of particular value Sub-Lieutenant James Christopher Lawless, To Able Seaman Vincent H. O'Neill. HMCS to those in the medical branch, but gen• HMCS Sioux, to Miss Ruthmary Bracken- Cornwallis, and Mrs. O'Neill, a daughter. bury, of Ottawa. To Lieutenant-Commander J. L. Panabaker, eral readers will find much to interest Leading Seaman J. Lesk, HMCS Portage, HMCS Cornwallis, and Mrs. Panabaker, a them. Here, for example, is the story to Miss Dorothy Aubrey, of Eganville, Ont. daughter. Able Seaman Jerrold Meir, HMCS Porte To Commissioned Boatswain James Robin• of the Royal Canadian Navy's search Dauphine, to Miss Margaret Botterill, of son, HMCS Cornwallis, and Mrs. Robinson, for a remedy for seasickness, of its Windsor, Ont. a daughter. study of visual, auditory and nutritional Sub-Lieutenant (MN) Marion Evangeline To Lieutenant-Commander (SB) J. W. Scott, Peirce, HMCS Hunter, to Lieutenant-Com• HMCS Stadacona, and Mrs. Scott, a daughter. problems peculiar to the naval service, mander Gordon C. Brain, HMCS Hunter. To Lieutenant-Commander H. E. Taylor, and of the unrelenting research into Ordinary Seaman John Puchyr, HMCS HMCS Corntuallis, and Mrs. Taylor, a Cornwallis, to Miss Marjorie V. Joudry, of daughter. methods and equipment which would Smith's Cove, N.S. To Lieutenant Maurice A. Turner, HMCS increase chances of survival in the Sub-Lieutenant Bruce G. Richards, HMCS Discovery, and Mrs. Turner, a daughter. North Atlantic.—C. Cornwallis, to Miss May Langton, of Mont• To Lieutenant-Commander (L) L. R. Wag- real. ener, Naval Headquarters, and Mrs. Wagener, Lieutenant-Commander J. R. K. Stewart, a son. "Official History of the Canadian Medical HMCS Cornuiallis, to Miss R. E. F. Lauriault, To Lieutenant-Commander William L. Wat• Services 1939-1945", Volume Two, "Clinical of Wrightville, P.Q. son, Naval Headquarters, and Mrs. Watson, Subjects", edited by W. R. Feasby, BA, Chief Petty Officer Albert Trepanier, HMCS a son. MD; 531 pages, illustrated; published by Cornwallis, to Miss Pauline F. Fielding, of To Sub-Lieutenant (S) G. T. White, HMCS the Queen's Printer, Ottawa; S5. Annapolis Royal, N.S. Cornuiallis, and Mrs. White, a son.

Page twenty-six LOWER DECK PROMOTIONS

Following is a further list of promo• EDWARDS, William L P]EM2(NQ) MIRON, Jacques A LSEM1 tions of men on the lower deck. The ELLIOTT, William D LSEM1 MOORE, James D P1EM2(NQ) MORETON, James C P1EM2(NQ) list is arranged in alphabetical order, FARNDALE, Clarence E C2RC2 MOSLEY, Michael D P2EM2(NQ) with each man's new rank, branch and FORTUNE, Patrick J LSEM1 MURRAY, William P2EM2(NQ) trade group shown opposite his name. FOWLER, Clive LSEM1 MURRAY, William C P1SH4 MYERS, John F C1GI3 ARCHAMBAULT, Charles T.LSEM 1 GIBSON, Samuel M LSEM1 ASSELIN, Philippe P LSEM1 GILBERT, Keith D LSAAS NICKERSON, Douglas C.. . .P2EM2(NQ) GILL, James LSAA1 NORMAN, Raymond A LSEM1 BALL, John W C2PC3 GOODRIDGE, Victor C C1BD3 BARRETTE, Roger A LSEM1 GOOLD, John M P1ER4 O'CONNOR, Arthur W C2EM3(NQ) BATTLE, Jesse F P2MA2 GOSSE, Walter A P2EM2(NQ) OLSON, Robert O LSEM1 BELANGER, Jacques LSEM1 GREEN, David R P2EM2(NQ) ORCHERTON, Donald R. . . .LSEM1 BELL, John A LSQR1 GREENE, William. C2CA4 BELL, Walter E C2CA4 PAYNE, Malcolm D P1AA1 BILLINGTON, David I P2EM2(NQ) HAINSTOCK, Charles L P1EM2(NQ) PEACOCK, James W LSEM1 BODNARCHUK, Jerry P2EM2(NQ) HARGREAVES, William G-. . P2EM2(NQ) PLETSCH, Norman R C2EM(NQ) BOIS, Alphonse F LSCK1 HATELEY, Roy A LSEM 1 POPP, Herbert H ClEM3(NQ) BONNEAU, Beaulieu J. A.. . .C2EM3(NQ) HOOVER, David E LSEM1 POWER, John P P2EM2(NQ) BOULTER, Leigh O C2EM3(NQ) HOWLETT, James D LSTD1 PURCELL, John J C2CS3 BROOKES, Munro C C2TA4 HUMPHRIES, William G. . . .P2EM2(NQ) BRYSON, Edward J P1EM2(NQ) QUINN, William J P2EM2(NQ) BUCKLEY, Charles P2EM2(NQ) ISLES, Kenneth JVI P2EM2(NQ) RAWLE, Bernard W C1EM3(NQ) CAMPBELL, Ronald P LSEM1 JENNS, Gerald S P2EM2(NQ) REESOR, William C P2EM2(NQ) CARLSON, Alfred A LSEM1 RODGERS, Gordon V C1EM3(NQ) CARROLL, Ravmond M LSEM1 KACHALUBA, Raymond F. . LSEM1 ROSS, Donald W C2GA4 CARTIER, Wilfred J LSEM1 KERASIOTIS, Peter LSEM1 ROWAT, William A LSEM1 CHARTER, James T P2EM2(NQ) KIPP, John R P1EM2(NQ) RUSSELL, Percy F P1SW2 CHISHOLM, John A P2EM2(NQ) COYLE, Cvril F P1AA2 LACROIX, Emmett R P2EM2(NQ) SANGRET, Hugh A LSBD2 CROZIER,'Robert G LSEM1 LAMONTAGNE, Pierre J. , . .LSEM1 SENGER, John N C2CK3 CUNNING, Richard C LSEM1 LOCKHART, Douglas M P1EM2(NQ) SIGALET, John W LSEM1 CURRIE, William E P2EM2(NQ) LORENTZ, Elmer A LSEM1 SIMONSON, George R LSEM1 LYON, Robert A P2EM2(NQ) SKIFFINGTON, William B. . LSEM1 DAVIS, Garry J P2BD3 STEVENSON, Ronald C P2EM2(NQ) DAYTON, Arthur D P2EM2(NQ) MCCARTHY, Vincent R LSEM1 STEVENSON, Alfred J P2EM2(NQ) DENYER, Clifford J LSEM3 McDONALD, Bruce S LSRPS DESCHAMPS, Paul B LSMA1 McDORMAND, Gerald E P2EM2(NQ) TAYLOR, Kenneth L P2EM2(NQ) DEVEREAfJX, Leonard A. . .LSEM1 McNEIL, Cyril J C10T4 THOMPSON, Fenwick R P2EM2(NQ) DONNELLY, Robert E LSAA1 MacAULEY, Ernest M P2EM2{NQ) THOMPSON, William J P1ER4 DOYLE, Robert J LSTD1 MacDONALD, John C2TI3 TODD, Vernon LSMA1 DREW, Colin A C2GA4 MACKIN, William A P2EM2(NQ) TOMLINSON, Gordon E P1ER4 DUNCAN, Robert J P2EM2(NQ) MATTHEWMAN, Robert D.LSEM1 TROTTIER, Lefe J LSEM1 DUNN, Samuel R P2EM2(NQ) MESSERVEY, Murray J LSEM1 TURPLE, Edsel A LSRPS TYNER, Murray S LSNS1

Petty Officers' Leadership Course No. 44 began in Cornwallis on September 7, 1953, and com• VANZIELEGHEM, Andre O.. LSQRS pleted on October 16. Members were, front row, left to right: POs Robert L. Sharp, Walter Nsiison, Hector MacDonald, Instructor Liegt. Lawrence Farrington and PO William Fluskey (class Instructors), WESTON, Gilbert D LSEM1 POs Leslie W. Birks, Norman Williamson, and Gordon Lee. Centre row: POs William G. Hudson, WHITTAKER, Patrick V.. . . LSEM1 Robert D. Lockyer, Herbert F. King, James O. Stark, William E. McCaw, Alexander R. Forsyth, WILKS, Roy E P2EM2(NQ) Douglas L. Johnson and Frank H. Hindle. Rear row: POs Leonard V. Cook, Jean-Guy Normand, WILSON, William J P1EM2(NQ) Arthur D. Dayton, Ronald W. Kelly, Brian L. Hunt, Robert W. Hinds, William E. Robinson and John WOOD, Charles H LSRPS O'Donnell. (DB-3489) -YOUNGE, Merlin R P2EM2(NQ)

Micmac Completes Bermuda Work-Ups The Micmac sailed from Halifax on October 27 for working up exercises in the Bermuda area and an informal three-day visit to New York and Brook• lyn. The destroyer first sailed for Ber• muda October 23 but was forced to return the following day because of a leaking fuel tank. On completion of her working up exercises, she sailed from Bermuda for Brooklyn, arriving there on the morn• ing of November 10. She sailed again for Halifax on the morning of Novem• ber 13.

Page twenty-seven WHEN YOU'RE OLD of her main-deck, and carrying twenty- He acquired two acres of bush land, four long 24-pounders on that deck, cleared it by hand and planted some AND LAME with two 68-pound carronades, and six• 10,000 strawberry plants, during off- teen 32-pound carronades on her upper duty hours. And that's not all. He (Continued from page 18) deck, and a complement of 330 men. built a barn in true pioneer fashion. The other ships are the Wolfe (now the The siding was split from fallen cedar, we were we got up and started across. Montreal), a ship corvette, of 20 guns, which was dragged from the bush and There was no wind but the bridge chiefly 32-pound carronades, and 120 edged with an axe. The complete cost swayed from side to side in ever in• men; the Royal George (now the of the barn was $41, of which $35 went creasing arcs, with Lieut.-Cdr. Pana• Niagara), of eighteen guns, 32-pound for flooring and $6 for nails. baker helping the motion along. One carronades, with a long 24-pounder on The barn was "commissioned" at an slip . . . But we made it and then headed a pivot abaft, as in each of these ships; old-time dance during which 60 guests for the water hole. Here a wire her complement 120 men. Two brigs, had the time of their lives and proved stretched across a pond from high on the Star and Charwell, the former of the sturdiness of PO McKay's first a tree trunk to a low spot on a dam 14, the latter of 16 guns; the largest building venture. on the far side. The only problem was 100, the other 90 men. Two schooners, The McKays, who also include Arnold, to get up to the steel block which the Magnet and Netley, of 10 guns each, three, and Cheryl, one, at present live assured us of swift passage down the and 75 men. Ten or twelve gun-boats in the Aidergrove married quarters. wire. A slip meant a dunking. The (none of them covered over), one car• water was cold. Once across, our rifles were laid aside, we stumbled out along rying a long 18-pounder and a 32- PACKAGING METHODS pound carronade; the others a 32-pound a pier, strapped on life jackets and SHOWN plunged 20 feet down, down, into the carronade each. The establishment is icy water, down, down, bottom. Then for three lieutenants to be on the gun• Standardized methods of preservation we swam to the other side, crawled out boat service, each to have a division of and packaging of service stores and and the assault course was over. four boats, commanded by midshipmen. equipment were featured in the Depart• ment of National Defence display at the And that's what gave rise to Mr. From the time of my joining the 2nd Canadian National Packaging Ex• Hayley's original remarks. Princess Charlotte I never quitted the position, in Toronto in November. The 24th Officers' Divisional Course, ship or barracks. The interval between The Armed Forces demonstrated how which represented nearly 150 years of her launching, till we went to sea, was they preserve and package articles naval service, had had the course. but eleven days, three of which were ranging in size from washers to jet occupied in heaving down the ship, to engines. get the cleats off her bottom. The re• While the display was a tri-service SAILORS sult of our attack upon the enemy's effort throughout, each service spot• Fort Oswego you already know.* ON SNOWSHOES lighted the packaging of a piece of * The town and fortifications of Oswego, equipment peculiar to their service. (Continued from page 16) N.Y., were, after a spirited action, captured The Navy had on show a 40mm am• by the Lake Ontario Squadron of the Royal Navy and HM Provincial Marine on May 6, munition pack with quick release lid, [Chrysler's] Farm, where Colonel Mor• 1814, but were recaptured on May 31 by U.S. developed by Naval Ordnance. The rison defeated General Wilkin's Army, forces.—Ed. method of packing flame thrower spares with a mere handful of men. and components was exhibited by the On the twenty-second of March we Army. reached this place: the officers and The RCAF produced the largest single seamen of the squadron were drawn out MAN OF THE MONTH item of the show with its presentation to receive us with three cheers; we (Continued from page 6) of a jet engine container. The two-ton were lodged in a block-house, and al• pack, with a J-47 jet engine cushioned lowed four days to recruit. I was then inside on shock mountings portrayed appointed to the gun-boat service (as Dartmouth, N.S., and a year later to the care taken by the Air Force in pre• was Lieutenant Russel), under Captain Coverdale, near Moncton, N.B. serving and shipping jet engines. Owen. In a few days I joined the In August 1947 he joined Aidergrove The Joint Service Committee on Pre• Princess Charlotte, of 42 guns, com• radio station for the first time and dur• servation and Packaging, this year un• manded by Captain William Howe Mul- ing the year he spent there met der the chairmanship of Lieut.-Cdr. (S) caster, as first lieutenant. The Regent and married Florence Verna Prasloski. L. J. Matthewson, officer-in-charge of and her were on the stocks, planked up, Shortly after the wedding he was the Warehousing Division at Naval and their decks laying. The Regent is Headquarters, was responsible for the drafted to the frigate Antigonish. Fol• about eight feet longer than our 38-gun arranging and setting up of the Defence lowing a communications conversion frigates, having fifteen ports on each display. side of her main-deck, and guns on her course in 1950, he returned again to gangways, so that she carries twenty- Aidergrove. He has held his Petty Of• eight long 24-pounders on her main- ficer First Class rating since August SAVINGS BOND QUOTA deck; eight 68-pound carronades, two 15, 1952. EXCEEDED long 18, and eighteen 32-pound carron• One of the things which had im• The Pacific Command exceeded its ades on her upper deck, with a comple• pressed PO McKay during his previous Canada Savings Bonds campaign quota ment of 550 men. The Princess Char• sojourns on the Pacific Coast was the by $44,300. Final results, totalled in lotte is about the length of a 32-gun unfinished state of British Columbia, November, showed that total sales were frigate, but eighteen inches more beam, something he felt he should undertake $427,000, which represented 111-6 per pierced for thirteen ports on each side to remedy. cent of the command's objective.

Page twenty-eight NAM LORE CORNIER NO. 15 OPP CRUISERS

THE JAPANESE CRUISERS NTONE' G^TIKUMA' MOUNTED ALL 8-8 IN. GUNS ON THE FORECASTLE-THE QUARTERDECKS WERE MINATURE FLIGHT PECKS-

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