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Lead Line Naval Association of Canada Vancouver Island Newsletter Lead Line Naval Association of Canada Vancouver Island Newsletter September 2018 • Volume 33, Issue 5 HMCS ORIOLE'S EARLY HISTORY Read the story on pages 10-11 INSIDE President's Message ............................................................2 New patch reminiscent of 1940s war art ............................7 Letter to the Editor ...............................................................3 In Brief ....................................................................... 8 Veterans' Corner ............................................................. 4-5 Kayak trip supports HMCS Sackville .......................... 9 HMCS Calgary tests new freshwater ballast ......................6 HMCS Oriole's early history .............................................10 PRESIDENT'S MESSAGE CHALLENGES AND OPPORTUNITIES AHEAD As our fall program gets One of the first is a serious information on upcoming underway, your Executive look at this publication. This luncheons and our special is dealing with a number of assessment is not limited to Rainbow Dinner. Both are ex- challenges, challenges not NAC-VI but also to Starshell cellent opportunities to share confined to NAC-VI but ones and the many small newslet- and celebrate what we do. felt by NAC branches across ters produced by branches I also recommend you go the country. Put simply, these across the country. Our Na- online and check out www. are the ones brought on by a tional Executive Director is SKR18.ca, an excellent web- diminishing member base working with our Editor to site that shares information brought on by attrition. find ways to create synergy on the Sea King Retirement New members and the new with our efforts and to build celebrations scheduled for energy they bring are not re- value in our product. Look Bill Conconi this fall. All are welcome to placing those of us aging out. for more on this as the fall become involved. Further We are rich in experience and unfolds. stands out that the best way information is available from wisdom but poor in our abili- Our Membership Director, to build our membership is Director Peter Bey if the web- ty to actively take on the many Bill Macdonald is working still through personal contact. site doesn't answer all your opportunities that come our with Bill Thomas, NAC-T The math is simple; if each of questions. way to educate the public and National Membership us brings in one new member, Finally, as we consider our about and support our navy. Director, to build new tools we double our membership. challenges, we also celebrate This reality is leading your and new approaches to help Invite someone to a lunch or the many opportunities com- Executive to examine many with the challenge of declin- share NAC News with them. ing our way, I look forward to options to build our mem- ing membership. As we have Talk with your friends. We all sharing this voyage with you. bership and expand our base surveyed NAC members have it in us. Your Aye, while controlling our costs. from across the country it See elsewhere in this issue Bill UPCOMING LUNCHEONS September 27 - $30 Commodore Angus Topshee, MARPAC Fleet Commander, will speak. October 25 - $30 Speaker TBD. All luncheons are at the Royal Victoria Yacht Club, 3475 Ripon Road (Cadboro Bay) Doors open at 11:30 a.m. Lunch is served at 12:15 p.m. Confirm your attendance and convey any dietary concerns to Diana Dewar, [email protected] or 250-655-6788. 2 • LEAD LINE & LETTER TO THE EDITOR Dear Editor, early to mid-1960s (approx) the Seaman ing Seamen and 2 and 3 badge Leading I was attracted to your article ‘Stripey’ Branch included the following trades: Seamen became Petty Officers 2nd Class by Dr. Bonar A. Gow found on page 10 Gunnery, Torpedo, ASW/Asdic/Sonar, and 2 and 3 badge Petty Officers became and 11 of the latest Lead & Line, July Radar, Physical Training Instructors—my Petty Officers 1st Class or Chief Petty Offi- 2018 edition. I would like to add to the trade at the time—and when it was creat- cers 2nd Class and the Chief Petty Officers information provided by the author. ed, the Quartermasters. became Chief Petty Officers 1st Class. In the picture it shows a 3 badge AB, I joined the Canadian Navy in 1951 With the unification of the Canadi- affectionately known as ‘Stripey’, opening and although there were still 3 badge ABs an Forces in 1968, the Canadian Army the breach of the corvette’s main weap- around, they were few and far between. pushed to have its honorary Master Cor- on. The caption under the picture says it They had been disappearing rather rapidly, poral rank become a substantive rank was a gunner or possibly a torpedo man, due in part to the post WWII rank chang- with the appropriate pay incentive; DND —those trades were not interchangeable. es. Prior to 1947, there was only one level of concurred. Keeping with the Canadian This person would have been a gunner, Petty Officer and Chief Petty Officer. The Armed Forces policy, where all branches of which there was an abundance. The Department of National Defence decreed of the CAF would all have the same num- gunners of the day were the foundation that each arm of the Canadian Armed ber of paid substantive ranks, the Master members of the Seaman branch. When Forces would have the same number of Seaman rank was born. the Quartermaster branch was formed in ranks. This, in turn, equalized the rank Little known fact: many of the two and approximately 1947, the structure of the and pay levels for enlisted personnel in the three badge ABs coming out of WWII seaman branch changed. Many gunnery Navy, Army and Air force. This resulted in were AB(NT). The NT meant they had no personnel became corner-stone members the creation of ranks Petty Officer 1st and assigned trade, and a person could not be of the new Quartermaster branch. The au- 2nd Class and Chief Petty Officer 1st and promoted without a trade. Most of these thor refers to the Boatswain trade, which 2nd Class. This initiative brought about seamen automatically became part of the came about as a result of renaming the the end of the three badge ABs. There were Quartermaster trade when it was created. Quartermaster trade in the early-1960s exceptions of course, but almost overnight, Yours aye, (approx). From prior to WWII until the 2 and 3 badge Able Seamen became Lead- J P Hugh Sproule NAC-VI Executive Committee President Bill Conconi [email protected] 250-652-1634 Past President Michael Morres [email protected] 250-592-8897 Vice President Rod Hughes [email protected] 250-472-8905 Secretary Mike Brossard [email protected] 250-544-1425 Treasurer Diana Dewar [email protected] 250-655-6788 Membership Services Bill Macdonald [email protected] 250-661-3731 Director at Large Peter Bey [email protected] 250-652-2225 Director at Large David Cooper [email protected] 250-472-8905 Director at Large Patrick Hunt [email protected] 250-384-2930 Director at Large Steve White [email protected] 250-652-8215 Director at Large Al Kennedy [email protected] 778-440-3930 special appointments Editor Carmel Ecker [email protected] 250-661-1269 Historian Stan Parker [email protected] 250-734-3360 Webmaster Eric Griffiths [email protected] 250-537-0608 Naval Association of Canada – Vancouver Island (NAC-VI) mailing address: P.O. Box 5221, Victoria, BC, Canada V8R 6N4 LEAD LINE • 3 & VETERANS' CORNER KEY RESOLUTIONS AFFECTING VETERANS FROM 2018 LEGION NATIONAL CONVENTION New ideas and new resolutions mark Veteran Family Resource Centres. until the survivor requires them. the outcome of the 2018 Royal Cana- • Directive for the president of The • The Junior Canadian Ranger pro- dian Legion’s 47th Dominion Conven- Royal Canadian Legion to call upon gram will be recognized as being el- tion, which wrapped up in Winnipeg, the government to make the position igible for financial support from the Manitoba, at the end of August. of the VAC Ombudsman a permanent Poppy Funds of The Royal Canadian “I am pleased with the level of discus- and independent position, enshrined Legion. sion we’ve had on issues related to our in law and reporting directly to • Recommendation that the Legion veterans’ best interests,” said outgoing Parliament. strongly urge the federal govern- President Dave Flannigan. “We have ment to legally recognize Ocean passed several resolutions that we hope War Graves that would put the loss will help move things forward.” of a sailor on the same standing as Some of the key resolutions affecting the loss of soldiers and airmen and veterans carried at this meeting include: women. • Recommendation that Veterans Af- Passed resolutions will appear at fairs Canada (VAC) enact legislation Legion.ca in the weeks to come. to open Military Family Resource • Recommendation that VAC enact The Legion’s Dominion Convention Centres to all veterans and their legislation that would result in VIP is held every two years at varying lo- families, not just medically released benefits being offered to the survivor cations across the country. During the veterans; and that the centres be after a veteran’s death; and that these event, the organization’s policies and renamed the Military Family and benefits could be held in suspension programs are determined. GET YOUR TICKETS FOR THE RAINBOW DINNER This formal naval dinner will commemorate the arrival of HMCS Rainbow in Esquimalt on Nov. 7, 1910, the first ship in the Royal Canadian Navy to serve on the west coast. During dinner, a brief history of Rainbow will be given. Following dinner Bob McDonald, presenter and writer of CBC's Quirks & Quarks, will speak. The talented Tom Vickery, former member of several CAF Saturday, October 20 Bands, will play the piano during the reception and dinner.
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