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Crowsnest Magazine I. _ ,I ;f , ! , ! f "I 'J I" i i, I .I.. "j ~ I 1hCROWSN EST Vol. 5 No.1 THE ROYAL CANADIAN NAVY'S MAGAZINE NOVEMBER, 1952 LADY OF THE. MONTH Down the ways at the Burrard. Drydock Company's North Vancouver yard goes l-fer CONTENTS Majesty's Canadian Ship SKEENA, the first major warship to be launched on the West Page Coast of Canada since the end of the Second RCN News Review 2 World War. A destroyer escort, the SKEENA succeeds to a famous name. One of the six destroyers with which Canada entered the war, HMCS Niagara 4 the first HMCS SKEENA served with distinc­ tion on the North Atlantic convoy routes, in the Western Approaches to the British Isles A Handy Man 7 and in sea operations supporting the invasion of Europe. Officers and Men 8 The second SKEENA was christened by Mrs. Clarence Wallace, wife of the Lieutenant­ Governor of British Columbia. As can be seen Man of the Month 13 in the photo below, Mrs. Wallace made a perfect pitch in breaking the traditional bottle of champagne over the vessel's bow. (Photos l 'Maggie Holds a Party 15 E-20087, 2-0086). Lower Deck Promotions 16 Spectacular Show 18 Affoafand Ashore ..' ", . 20 . The Navy Plays ... 26 Down;;.;...But Not Downhearted 31 .. Cover Photo - The photogi"apll,er didn't have any trouble SUBSCRIPTION RATE coaxing smiles from these sailors. Crew members of HMCS Ontario, they were happily looking forward to shore leave in The Crowsnest may be sub­ scribed for at the rate of $1 for 12 the popular port of Seattle, Washington, when he snapped the issues. picture. The Ontario visited Seattle during one of her summer Persons desirous of receiving training cruises. Now the ship is on an extended voyage around their own private copies by mail South America. Left to right in the photo are Petty Officer should send their orders, accom­ Peter Doyle, Ordinary Seamen George Glazier, William Goyman, panied by cheque or money order made out to the Receiver General Thomas McCauley, and Harvey MacPherson, and Able Seamen of Canada, to:- Robert Ramsey, Nick Schneider and Orval Coulter. (Seattle Post-Intelligencer Photo byEd Watson). THE QUEEN'S PRINTER, 75 ST. PATRICK STREET, OTTAWA, ONT. Page one R.G.N.· News Review HCN Sustains First Iroquois was the first enemy fire to disorganized enemy resistance in the Korea Battle Casualties fi'nd its mark. landing sector and South Korean On Thursday, October 2, the Royal Not many days earlier the Iroquois troops accounted for about a third Canadian Navy sustained its first had directed a sea, land and air of the communists' more than 200 battle' casualties of the Korean war. raid on a west coast beach which casualties. The only casualties suf­ cost the enemy more than 200 killed Killed when an enemy shell struck fered by the attackers were a handful Iroq~lOis and wounded and which knocked of wounded. liB" gun turret of HMCS out a score of gun emplacements, were Lieut.-Cdr. John L. Qumn, The withdrawal began about six mortars and heavy machine guns. o'clock and the two warships laid Able Seaman Elburne A. Bailde and The main attack on the beach at Able Seaman WallaceM. Burden. down heavy fire behind the troops. the southwestern end of Hwang-Hae Several companies of, Chinese com­ They were buried on October 8 with province was made by a force of two full naval honors in the British munist reinforcements were caught companies of South Korean .troops on the roads among the rice paddies, Commonwealth cemetery at Yoko­ which sailed in junks to their ren­ hama, Japan. suffered heavy losses and never joined dezvous point. battle. Several men suffered injuries, but A diversionary raid was made by only two cases required hospitaliza­ Naval aircraft from the carrier a third company, with HMS Belfast USS Sicily arrived over the area in tion ashore. (cruiser) providing covering fire. On October 2 the Iroquois and the final stages of the ciperation and, The assault began about two taking their;.' directions from the USS Marsh (destroyer escort) were o'clock in the morning. The Belfast bombarding a section of North Iroquois, wiped up all last attempts and the Iroquois pounded gun, mor­ at harassing fire on the withdrawing Korean railway along the east coast tar and' troop positions along the forces., The aircraft topped off their shoreline. The exposed trackage had coast as the assault junks moved m. previou~ly part in the raid by knocking out a been pounded by UN w31r­ When the land attack began at dam and destroying several gun ships and the commuOlsts were trymg four o'clock the warships lifted their to restore it to service. bunkers. fire to blast roads leading to the Later in the same patrol, the The Iroquois and the Marsh fi~ed , peninsula and slow down any move­ Workm~ Iroquois captured an enemy junk on the target for an hour. ment of enemy reinforcements. Fire and turned it over to shore author­ parties were scattered. and the rall from the Iroquois had completely line took a heavy blastmg. ities. The two ships ended' their bom­ bardment and turned to head out to Canadian Destroyers sea. At this moment shore batteries Strike Enemy Targets o'pened fire on the Iroquois and All three Canadian destroyers serv­ almost at once a full salvo bracketed ing in the Korean theatre struck the ship. ' ' blows at the enemy during September The destroyer made smoke and took and October. evasive action, but one enemy shell Operating in' the Yellow Sea, found its mark. Lieut.-Cdr. Quinn, HMCS Crusader scored a hit on a and AB Baikie were killed instantly. beached sampan, south of Chinnampo, AB Burden was critically wounded on September 19. and died a few hours later in the HMCS Nootka, operating along ship's sick bay. Three other men another section of the coast, engaged were wounded by shrapnel and shell enemy guns on September 23 but splinters and seven received minor made no claims. Three days later C~& ' the Nootka laid 4T rounds on troops As the two ships withdrew, the and gun positions west of Sogwanni, Iroquois poured steady fire from her with undetermined results. main armament at the shore battery On September 27, the N ootka, and silenced it. continuing her west coast operations, Damage to the ship w:as sligh~ and fired seven rounds at, a sampan. did not affect her fightmg efficIency The next day she captured an armed in any way. The Marsh was not AB Arthur Wilkinson, of Victoria, com­ sampan in the Chodo area. munications number of "A" gun' on board fired upon. , HMCS Nootka, has his supper at his action In a west coast action on October The Canadian destroyers, on duty station during a brief lull between bo~~ard-" 1, the Nootka and HMS Cossack in the Korean' war theatre for more ments of North Korean coastal posItions,' (destroyer) fired at troops and gun than two years and'often worfdng Behind him is the gunlayer, Ldg. Sea. Joseph positions near Sogwanni. Pattenden, of Halifax. The Nootka is within easy shelling distance off scheduled to be relieved early in November The Iroquois, in the meantime, the shore, had previously expe~ience.d and to be back in Halifax before Christmas. had moved around to the east coast, near misses, but the shell whIch hIt (NK-1699). and it was inarLearly October action Page two , \ _._-"--_ .. -~-- ... - ..-- -.. --...--, \, there that she became the first Cana­ \ dian destroyer to suffer battle casual­ ties. The Nootka continued her west coast operations and, on October 12, joined with HMS Mounts Bay (frigate) and PC 703 in firing at shore gun positions. Defence Minister, Scientists Spend Day In "Maggie" More than four months from the June day when she sailed for United Kingdom waters to take part in Exercise Castanets, HMCS Magnifi­ cent returned to her home port of Halifax. In those fOUl" months, the Magnifi.: cent had taken part in three NATO exercises, penetrated the Mediter­ ranean as far as Istanbul, Turkey, experienced sOme of the roughest weather in her history and stuck some bright new feathers in, her hat for the performance of her airmen during the NATO manreuvres. B.ack from a fou!'-month ~ruise to European waters and the Mediterranean, I-:lMCS The latter two exercises in which Maglllficent berths at Jetty four III the dockyard at Halifax. (HS-22352). she took part were Mainbrace, off northwest Europe, and Emigrant, on Maritimes. During their three-day On being relieved by the Haida the homeward journey across the stay in Nova Scotia· they visited .early in November, the Nootka will Atlantic. HMCS Quebec also played HMCS Cornwallis, HMCS Stadacona make her way home via Singapore, important roles in Mainbrace and and HMCS Shearwater. the Suez Canal and Gibraltar, the Emigrant, returning home at the first of the Canadian destroyers serv- same time as the "Maggie". Ontario Passes Halfway . ing in the Korean war theatre to have returned by the east-west route. Eight days after her return, the Mark on S.A. Cruise The only other Canadian warship Magnificent put to sea for a one-day Halfway mark of HMCS Ontario's air-sea exercise, held especially for to have circumnavigated the globe is South America cruise was reached in HMCS Quebec, which was also the Defence Minister Brooke Claxton, the course of her visit to the Argentine members of the Defence Research first RCN ship to sail completely capital of Buenos Aires, late in around the continent of South Board and other distinguished Cana­ October.
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