National Defense 1*1 Defence nationale New Insert! Maritime The Journal welcomes Engineering CNTHA News Journal CANADA 's NAVAL TECHNICAL FORUM June 1998 Looking Back: The story of how the DDH-280s began Also: • Forum: Clearing the Air on Alternate Service Delivery • Simulation and Training in the Canadian Navy Canada HMCS Athabaskan Extended Work Period: Port Weller Diary - A detachment commander's journal Maritime Engineering Journal Established 1982 JUNE 1998 DEPARTMENTS Editor’s Notes by Capt(N) Roger Westwood .............................................................................. 2 Commodore’s Corner by Cmdre J.R. Sylvester ...................................................................................... 3 FORUM Some Concerns with Alternate Service Delivery by LCdr Robert W. Jones ..................................................................................... 4 Points to Consider on ASD by Capt(N) I.D. Mack.......................................................................................... 4 Systems Engineers as Leaders Director General by LCdr Sean Midwood ...................................................................................... 5 Maritime Equipment Program Management FEATURES Commodore J.R. Sylvester, CD Looking Back: How the DDH-280 Began by Hal Smith and Shawn Cafferky...................................................................... 6 Simulation and Training in the Canadian Navy Editor by LCdr S.W. Yankowich .................................................................................... 11 Captain(N) Roger Westwood, CD Director of Maritime Management and Port Weller Diary Support (DMMS) by LCdr Robert W. Jones ....................................................................................15 Editorial Adviser East Coast MARE Graduation Mess Dinner Speech Cdr Don Flemming by Capt(N) (ret.) Sherm Embree .......................................................................21 DGMEPM Special Projects Officer GREENSPACE Production Editor / Enquiries The Hydromem™ Bilgewater Treatment System Brian McCullough by LCdr Mark Tinney .........................................................................................22 Tel.(819) 997-9355 BOOK REVIEWS Fax (819) 994-8709 Cadillac of Destroyers Technical Editors Reviewed by Roger Sarty ...................................................................................24 LCdr Mark Tinney (Marine Systems) The Maritime Defence of Canada LCdr Marc Lapierre (Combat Systems) Reviewed by Lt(N) Greg Alexander ..................................................................24 Simon Igici (Combat Systems) LCdr Ken Holt (Naval Architecture) NEWS BRIEFS ............................................................................................................25 Journal Representatives NEW INSERT! CNTHA News — Newsletter of the Cdr Jim Wilson (MARLANT) Canadian Naval Technical History Association......................................................29 (902) 427-8410 CPO1 G.T. Wall (NCMs) Our Cover: (819) 997-9342 HMCS Algonquin in 1979. The design for Canada’s four Iroquois-class destroyers Art Direction by built during the 1970s grew out of politically doomed plans for a “general purpose” CFSU(O) Creative Services frigate. When Iroquois was commissioned in 1972, she became the first destroyer-sized ship in the western world to have all-gas-turbine propulsion. (CF photo) Translation Services by Public Works and Government Services The Maritime Engineering Journal (ISSN 0713-0058) is an unofficial publication of the Maritime Engi- Translation Bureau neers of the Canadian Forces, published three times a year by the Director General Maritime Equipment Mme. Josette Pelletier, Director Program Management. Views expressed are those of the writers and do not necessarily reflect official opin- ion or policy. Mail can be sent to: The Editor, Maritime Engineering Journal, DMMS, NDHQ, MGen The Journal is available on the DGMEPM Pearkes Building, 101 Colonel By Drive, Ottawa, Ontario Canada K1A 0K2. The editor reserves website located on the DND DIN intranet at the right to reject or edit any editorial material. While every effort is made to return artwork and photos http://skeena.d-ndhq.dnd.ca/ in good condition, the Journal can assume no responsibility for this. Unless otherwise stated, Journal ar- ticles may be reprinted with proper credit. A courtesy copy of the reprinted article would be appreciated. MARITIME ENGINEERING JOURNAL JUNE 1998 1 Editor’s Notes Welcome CNTHA News! Partners in the naval technical support effort By Captain(N) Roger Westwood, CD Director of Maritime Management and Support — Editor his is my first opportunity to his committee, volunteers his time and the present soon becomes the past. In address the Maritime Engineer- effort to the cause. The association re- other words, keep in mind as you do your Ting Journal readership as the ceives no budget from DHH, and in April day-to-day work that you are in the best Journal’s new editor. Before I get to the the CNTHA faced a dilemma when it had position to maintain an accurate historical current topic, the incorporation of the to take over responsibility for funding its record of significant decisions and activi- Canadian Naval Technical History Asso- newsletter. DGMEPM, who had been ties as they pertain to your area of exper- ciation newsletter into the Journal, I working behind the scenes to prepare for tise. Your conscientiousness on a daily would like to acknowledge the important this eventuality, quickly agreed to RAdm basis will ensure that the story of Cana- work of the Journal’s authors and edito- Saker’s formal request to bring CNTHA da’s ongoing naval technical effort will be rial staff in maintaining a first-class publi- News under the Journal’s funding um- faithfully preserved for generations to cation. As a faithful reader over the past brella. come. 15 years, I recognize that these dedicated It was a win-win decision if ever there Here’s to a long, happy association. individuals have ensured that the Journal was one. Apart from solving the continues to provide an essential forum CNTHA’s immediate publication funding for our community. I salute the efforts of crisis, our teaming-up like this serves sev- all those who have made a personal con- eral purposes. To begin with, the oppor- tribution to the Journal’s success and tunity for exchanging ideas and offering strongly encourage all members of our input to each other’s efforts has now community to participate actively in this grown. This may be most people’s first The Journal welcomes unclassified vital forum. exposure to the naval technical history submissions, in English or French. The Maritime Engineering Journal is newsletter, but CNTHA News subscribers To avoid duplication of effort and to pleased to welcome a new strategic part- have been receiving the Maritime Engi- ensure suitability of subject matter, ner to the publishing fold, in the form of neering Journal with their subscriptions prospective contributors are CNTHA News — the newsletter of the for over a year now. Already, we in the strongly advised to contact the Canadian Naval Technical History Asso- serving technical support community Editor, Maritime Engineering ciation. Beginning with this issue, have benefited from this exposure Journal, DMMS, National CNTHA News will appear as a regular through CNTHA-sponsored seminar Defence Headquarters, Ottawa, “feature” piggybacked in the centre sec- presentations and historical articles in the Ontario, K1A 0K2, Tel.(819) 997- tion of the Journal. Although our two Journal. (Our cover story on the begin- 9355, before submitting material. publications share close editorial ties with nings of the DDH-280s is a perfect case in Final selection of articles for one another, we will continue to maintain point.) publication is made by the Journal’s separate editorial decision-making boards. editorial committee. Letters of any The CNTHA, on the other hand, length are always welcome, but only It was nearly two years ago that the stands to reap huge dividends by having signed correspondence will be Maritime Engineering Journal first an- more direct access to the serving naval considered for publication. nounced DGMEPM’s “synergistic part- technical community. And here I appeal nership” with the newly formed Canadian to you. If you think you can contribute in Naval Technical History Association (see any way to the documentation of Cana- “Piecing together our technical history,” da’s post-war naval technical history with Editor’s Notes, October 1996). As we told stories, documents, drawings, photos — you then, the CNTHA was established to please get in touch with the CNTHA at support the Directorate of History and the numbers listed in their newsletter. Heritage’s effort to pull together the offi- But there is more to it than that. And cial version of Canada’s post-1945 naval this is where it all comes together. By po- technical history. sitioning the CNTHA newsletter as a The association is chaired by former high-profile insert in the Maritime Engi- Assistant Deputy Minister for Engineer- neering Journal, it serves as a permanent ing and Maintenance RAdm (ret.) Mike reminder to everyone serving in Canada’s Saker who, like virtually everyone else on naval technical support community that 2 MARITIME ENGINEERING JOURNAL JUNE 1998 Commodore’s Corner The Role of the MARE By Commodore J.R. Sylvester, CD Director General Maritime Equipment Program Management y now I think we have all had tion, human relations and administrative