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Vol. 6 No.6

1AICROWSNESTTHE ROYAL CANADIAN NAVY'S MAGAZINE APRIL, 1954

LADIES OF THE MONTH

CONTENTS

RCN News Revieyv , ,., , , , , ,.. ~ .

Four Ships for NATO

Officers an,d Men, , .

The Prilne Min,istei~'s Visit

A Bit About Radar " .

A Tragedy,; ~h.at Didn.'t Hap]Jen.

Stripey .

Entertainment Centre

Afloat and Ashore : " " " ..

The Bulletin Board

The Navy Plays .

Under the Red Duster (Book Review)

Lower Deck Prol11.otions

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Four new-construction, Canadian-builtminesweepers of the Royal Canadian Navynow fly the French Tricolour, followingtheir presentation to the French Navy atHalifax on April 7 under the NATO MutualAid agreement. The names under whichthey sailed as units of the First CanadianMinsweeping Squadron will not be forgot­ten, however, as each ship's bell bears theoriginal Canadian name as well as the newone aHotted by the French.

The period immediately preceding thetransfer.brought Canadian crews into closecontact with their French successors asthey explained the operatiqn of unfamiliarequipment to the new ships' companies.

The presentation was. made by DefenceMinister Brooke Claxton and the four shipswere accepted by His Excellency HubertGuerin, French Ambassador to Canada.

On the opposite page, from foregroundto rear, are La Dunkerquoise (formerlyFundy), La Pailnpolaise (formerly Thun~

del') , La Bayonnaise (formerly Chignecto)and La Malouine (formerly Cowichan).(DNS-11978 )

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Cover Photo - No sensible ground hog would undertakehis kind's annual stint of weather forecasting on February 2 atChurchill. .f\ month later, however, winter had moderated suffi­ciently for Wren Elizabeth Mary Rivers, of Edmonton, to emerge

---- -~--~-from-her igloo and "sub" for the furry weatherman. Lower Slob­

bovians please note that residence in igloos is not compulsory atnorthern RCN radio stations. (0-6458)' ,.

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HMCS Huron returns from the For East.

Four members of 881 Squ,adron are shown just before taking off from Shearwater in an Avengeraircraft for. Patricia Bay, near Victoria, to take part in Exercise Orange Blossom. The four are(left to right) AB William Hamilton, PO" Harvey Mills, ldg. Sea. Harry Sully and AB Carl laming.(DNS.11914)

Helicopter BringsPatients Ash_ore

Landing on a space on board- shipnot much bigger than her landing gear,an RCN helicopter on March 24 broughtthree men from the United States Mili­tary Sea Transportation Service Ship,General II. F. Hodges, ,65 miles off Hali­fax, to the RCN hbSpital at Stadaconafor medical treatment. Of the threemen, one was described as being in"critical condition".

The General Hodges was en route toCasablanca when the three men werestricken and the ship diverted to Hali­fax to land them. It was decided, how­ever, that it would be faster to fly themen off by helicopter and a Sikorsky,piloted by Lt.-Cdr. Jack H. Beeman, ofMontreal and Dartmouth, N.S., took off.Also on board were a doctor, SurgeonLieut. Robert E. Stewa1't, of Toronto'the navigator, CPO William Shorten',of Calgary and Dartmouth, and crew-

man AB Sydney Seymour, of Hamiltonand Dartmouth.

With barely room' for her whirlingblades, the helicopter' was set down onthe forward gun platform of the Gen­eral Hodges 50 minutes after take-offand 15 minutes later she was airbornecarrying the patients. Within 50 min­utes Lt.-Cdr. Beeman set his "whirly­bird" down on the parade ground, atStadacona, not five feet away from thewaiting ambulances. Ten minutes laterthe patients were being examined atthe RCN Hospital.

The total elapsed time of the mercyflight from take-off at Shearwater toarrival with the patients at Stadaconawas two hours and five minutes.

Far East ShipsIn AIS Exercises

The Canadian destroyers Cayuga(Cdr. W. P. Hayes) and Crusader (Lt.­Cdr. W. H. Willson) joined the U.S.aircraft carrier Rendova and sevenAmerican destroyers in a series oflarge-scale anti-submarine exercises inFar East waters.

Sweeping southward from Japan'sHonshu Island to Okinawa, the fast"hunter-killer" unit carried 'out a sus­tained five-day attack on "enemy" sub­marines operating in the area.,

The Canadian destroyers did well.The Crusader carried out nearly 40 at­tacks on the underseas craft, and theCayuga was a submariner's nightmare­she was credited with holding her sub'­marine contacts longer than any otherdestroyer in the unit.

The main "hunter-killer" operationfollowed three days of primary anti­submarine exercises off a United

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Nations naval base in Japan, in whichthe crews of destroyers, submarinesand aircraft "worked up" to top fight­ing form.

During the main exercise, anti-sub...marine aircraft and helicopters fromthe Rendova teamed up with the des...troyers to search -out and attack theenemy subs that attempted to torpedothe carrier and nullify the unit's effec-tiveness. '

The Cayuga and Crusader formedpart of the destroyer screen protectingthe carrier, took their t\ll"ns operatingin v&rious positions on the screen andacted as plane guard for the carrierduring several of the Rendova's day andnight flying operations, They were alsomembers of numerous surface attackunits detached t~ Hdestroy" submarineslocated by the carrier's aircraft, and onseveral occasions commanded the at-tacking force, .

The destroyers 'and aircraft carriedout continuous day and night ~ttacks

on the submarines and, simulatingl·war­time conditions, all ships were dark... ·ened during night operations. Midwaythrough the exercises the destroyersfuelled from the carrier.

It was' the largest, but not the first,anti-submarine exercise for both theCayuga and Crusader since they begantheir current tours of duty in the FarEast. Between regular patrols toKorean waters, Canadian destroyershave been carr;ying out almost continu­ous exercises with other units of theUnited Nations fleet.

Fundy's HCNCareer Brief

A brief commission was in store forHMCS Fundy when she "was cOIllmis~

sioned on March 19 under.the commandof Lt.-Cdr, A, H.Slater at the SaintJohn Drydock Company yards in S~int

John, N.B.- .She joined the Eirst Canadian: Mine.,.

sweeping Squadron at Halifax on March24 and, on· April 7" was. turned. over tothe French Navy~ along with three sis­ter ships, 'under the NATO Mutual. AidAgreement.

Avengers FlyTo "Pat" Bay

Twelve Avenger aircraft ·of 881Squadron winged their way acrossCanada in early April from Shearwaterto join in three weeks of exercises withWest Coast ships.

The Avengers were to operate fromPatricia Bay, airport for the duration ofExercise Orange Blossom, as. the opera...tion was designated. Participating war...

ships were to include the Ontario, theSioux and the recent West Coast arri­vals, the anti-submarine frigates NewGlas'gow and Stettler.

Two purposes of the exericse were tofamiliarize Esquimalt-based ships in

- operating with RCN aircraft and topractice 881 Squadron in operatingaway from its home base,

The movement of the air ·squadron tothe Pacific coast involved the transferof nearly 140 men, plus maintenanceequipment. Fourteen officers and 22

.men made the trip in the Avengers; 14men, with tool kits and spares, travelledin an RCAF Dakota Hmother ship", andanother 68 officers and men, journeyedvia TCA.

Prime Minister .Tltan){s Services

Gratitude for the assistance ren..dered by melnbers of the Canadanarmed forces during his flight aroundthe world was the subject of a letterwritten by Prime Minister Louis St.Laurent to Defence Minister BrookeClaxton.

Mr. St. Laurent wrote:I'On the completion of my recent

trip around the world, I wish to con..vey my sincere thanks and' apprecia ..tion to all those concerned in theDepartment of National Defence fortheir efforts in m~king the tour asuccess.

"The service rendered myself andlny party by the officers and crewof the RCAF C..5 was magnificent inevery sense of the' 'word and fullyin keeping with the highest traditionsof the Royal Canadian Air Force.

UNp ,less outstandin~I' were the ar­r.angements for the visits to the brig...~dcrl? ~n Gennany and Korea, the ..airbases in Europe I and the destroyersquadron in Tokyo, On each occasion,the careful planning and smooth car...rying out of the program ensured thatthese ,visits were of particular valueal)d~ interest. Without the able assist...and~.· ...of .all three· services and. in par..

'Ucular, the outstanding contribution ofthe' officers and men of' Air.' ',TransportCOlnmand, the tour could' not 'haveachieved what it has in developingCanada's relations with the countriesvisited.

"I should be grateful if you wouldp,ass on to those concerned' my ap..preciation and thanks .for a job. welldone."

Chief of Naval Staff'J?isits West Coast

. fJ;he, annual inspection of ships andestablishments of the Pacific Commandwas carried out by Vice...Admiral E.R.MainguY,Chief of the I'faval Staff,fromMarch 16 to 24 inclusive. l

His itinerary included visits to HMC,Dockyard, Esquimalt, the naval air fa-

cility at Patricia Bay, ships in harbour,Naden, R.oyal Roads and shipyards.

Admiral Mainguy attended drill nightsat Malahat, the Victoria naval division,and Discovery, the Vancouver division.

.During his return trip to ottawa, hevisited Winnipeg where he presentedthree Sea Cadet corps with new coloursat a p~rade at Chi1Jpawa, the Winnipegnaval division. The following day heobserved the polio hydrotherapy pro...gram which is being carried out inChippawa's pool for victims of lastyear's polio epidemic in Manitoba,

flll,rOlt BllCksHeavy Seas I

HMCS 'Huron returned home on St.Patrick's Day, after nearly eight monthsin Korean waters and 11 .months awayfrom Halifax, to be greeted by hundredsof relatives~ friends and well-wishers.

Rough seas dominated most of the re­turn trip, which was by way of theSuez Canal and Gibraltar, and delayedthe veteran destroyer by more than 12hours. Fron1 the Azores the ship bucked.gales almost continually.

"In fact," said the commanding of­ficer, CommanderT. C. Pullen, of Oak­ville, Ontario1 "the weather was ·sobad that one day when we' passed closeastern of the world's largest ship, RMSQueen E.lizabeth. we noticed that shewas taking green water aboard at times."

The Huron is under refit and duringthis time the officers and men haveproceeded on leave or are undergoingcourses.

. Reservists toAttend Jubilee

Captain R. 1. I-Iendy, RCN(R), com­manding officer of York, the Torontonaval division, will be senior RCN (R)representative at the Jubilee Review byHer Majesty Queen Elizabeth II of theRoyal Navy Volunteer Reserve in Lon­don on June 12.

The RCN (R) will be represented inthe parade by 29 melubers of the Re­serve under the command of Lieut.Frederick Wallis White, RCN (R), ofCarleton, the Ottawa n~val division.

The two Wren officers and thre'eWrens in the contingent will travel toand from the United Kingdom by RCAFtransport flights. The remaind'er willsail from Halifax in 'HMCS Micmac onMay 31, arriving at Portsmouth onJune 9.

The RNVR was 50 years old in June1953, but observance of the jubilee waspostponed for a·' year in order not tocOhflict with Coronation ceremonies.

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Four';' Ships for NATO

Officiating at the ceremony for the transfer to France of four Canadian-built" new-constructionminesweepers at Halifax April 7, Defence Minister Brooke Claxton met captains of the four ships,both RCN retiring and French relieving. Here, Mr. Claxton shakes hands with Lieutenant de" vaisseauAndre Perrin, Paris, France, commanding officer of La Malouine, formerly HMCS Cowichan.

The speeches over, the ships' com­panies, Canadian and French, marchedto" the jetty and formed up abreast theirships. To the playing of an orchestratedarrangement of. "Sunset", the Navy'sevening hymn, the Canadian colourswere hauled down, and the strains of"La Marseillaise" marked the raising ofthe French colours.

With the French Tricolours hoisted,the massed band played "God Save theQueen" and "0 Canada", in a stirringfinal tribute to the ships. The guard,band, and the Canadian ships' compan­ies marched off, marking the end of theceremony.

As a final act on his part, Mr. Clax­ton boarded La Dunkerquoise, seniorship of the group, to visit Capitaine decorvette Pierre G. F. Top, Toulons,France, in charge of the French con­tingent. La Dunkerquoise, formerly theFundy, is named after the famous with­drawal of the British army from Dun­kirk.

However, the minesweepers will neverlose their Canadian identity entirely,since every time the man on the watchstrikes the ship's bell in one of them,he will strike the bell that carries theformer Canadian name on the reverseside.

In his address, Mr. Claxton said:Sunday, April 4, marked the fifth an­

niversary of the North Atlantic Treaty.In the fourteen NATO nations the daywas marked by suitable ceremonies andspeeches ...

Six years ago, in February, 1948, thatgallant and tragic country, Czechoslo­vakia, was the latest of a large numberof nations to be taken behind the IronCurtain by Communist aggression. Byone means or another Russia was stead­ily expanding Communist territory and

fact that the Minister had once servedin the army, he seemed to have a greatdeal of feeling for the Navy and a greatdeal of understanding of naval affairs.

In his opening remarks, Mr. Claxtonsaid that his experience in the army asa sergeant.:.major had given him enoughappreciation of the effort made by themen taking part to realize what awonderful turn-out they had made.It was, he said, the finest naval paradehe had seen "in this or any othercountry". As a gesture of thanks he re­quested that the men of the two naviesinvolved in the turn-over be given a"make-and-mend".

He went on to enlarge on the purposeof NATO, and to express gratitude tothe French nation for their part in thealliance. He also stressed Canada'sdetermination to make "the organizationa successful one. In closing, Mr. Clax­ton turned and, indicating the four shipsnestled against the jetty, presented themto Mr. Guerin.

Mr. Guerin made a short speech ofacceptance, in which he thanked theCanadian nation for its part in the pastin affairs affecting France, and acceptedthe ships on the part of the Governmentof France.

Canadian 'SweepersTurned Over to

France

ALL~ED i? ~act and united in friend­shlp, wlth common bonds of langu­

age and purpose,Canada and France,two of the nations in the North AtlanticTreaty Organization, gave further" evi­dence of the strength of the alliancewhen Canada;s Minister of NationalDefence, the Hon. Brooke Claxton,presented four new-construction, Can­adian-b,-\ilt, 152-foot minesweepers toHis Excellency Hubert Guerin, FrenchAmbassador to Canada.

The presentation ceremony took placein HMC Dockyard at Hatifax on April 7with a guard, a massed band fromHMC Ships Stadacona and CornwaLLisand the retiring and relieving crews ofthe two navies parading before the re­viewing stand. Hundreds of spectatorscrowded into the area to watch thepresentation and listen to the stirringmusic of the 66-piece band.

Rear-Admiral R. E. S. Bidwell,FlagOfficer Atlantic Coast, addressed the as­sembly, from a specially built standfilled with civilian and military digni­taries, including His Honour the Hon­ourable Alistair Fraser, LieutenantGovernor of Nova Scotia. In his addressAdmiral Bidwell introduced Mr. Clax­ton, and remarked that, in spite of the

Communist poWet>/'W·"gtYod many peo­ple feared we were only one step awayfrom a cold war becoming a hot war.

Western union was then formed asa bulwark of freedom for the West.

The idea of expanding this in a NorthAtlantic Alliance was first suggested in.September, 19407, in a speech at theAssembly of the United Nations in NewYork by our own Prime Minister, RightHonourable Louis 'St. Laurent.

The free democracies of the Westernworld saw that if they did not standtogether they might fall separately.They declared in the preamble of theNorth Atlantic Treaty:

"Tney are determined to safe­guard the freedom, common heri­tage and civilization of their peoples,founded on the principles of dem­ocracy, individual liberty, and therule of law; they seek to promotestability and weli-being in the NorthAtlantic area; they are resolved tounite their efforts for collective de­fence and for the preservation ofpeace and security."Those were the words that were

,spoken and written down five years,ago. Those,'words have been translatedinto action and today the North Atlan­tic Treaty Organization is a reality.

What each country does to build upits strength is not only a contributionto the collective strength of NATO, but,also contributes to its own defence."Canada has made notable contributionsto the strength of NATO and those con­tributions have been supported by vir­tually all Canadians, irrespective ofpolitical party, racial origin or geo-

. graphical location. We all recognizethat not only is this being done forthe defence of Canada but also it isbeing done for the preservation ofpeace itself.

The developrilent of new weapons ofgigantic destructive power makes it ourparamount taska~d' duty to ,do what­ever must be done to preserve peace.

That is the object of the North At­lantic Treaty Organization.

Building up the strength of NATOhas beyond question or doubt been oneof the factors that has purchased forus five years without a major war. Thepolicy has succeeded. In another field,the United Nations standing together inKorea stopped aggression there and pre­vented its spreading elsewhere. Inbuilding up the strength of the NorthAtlantic Treaty Organization we haveprovided a deterrent to aggression. Thegreat expenditures that have had to beborne have been the price of ensuringpeace. A prudent man insures his home

'and the fact that he has no fire forfive ye/lrs does not lead him to stop

paying th'C'''premium',,-oT cancel the in­surance.

It is the same with NATO and atth~ meeting of the North Atlantic Coun­cil at Paris in December, the fourteennations reaffirmed their determinationto proceed with the policy and the pro­gram to which they had set. their hands.

At Paris the Council"reaffirmed its conviction that peaceand security must be the paramountaim of the North Atlantic TreatyOrganization. It recognized that tlwincreasing strength and unity of theNorth Atlantic powers, which mustbe steadily reinforced, nad provedto be decisive factors in maintain­ing peace and preventing aggres­sion. Nevertheless, the threat tothe Western world remai11s andmember count1'ies must be ready toface a continuance of this threatover a long period. The Atlanticcommunity must therefore be pre­pared to keep in being over a periodof years forces and weapons whicnwill be a major factor in deterringaggression and in contributing tothe effective security of the NATOarea."

'Canada has taken a proper share inthe work of NATO and in contributingto its strength.

This participation has taken manyforms:

1. From the Prime Minister's firstsuggestion in September, 1947, untilthe present date, Canada has takenan active and constructive partin working ,Qut the, terms of theTreaty and 'in setting up the or­'ganization.

2. We have worked with others tobring about the, standardization ofprocedures, communications, charts,maps, weather reporting and wea­pons.

3. We have met every commitmentby making available the forces wehave agreed to provide at or be­fore the planned target date. Theseforces now include 36 ships of theRoyal Canadian Navy committed toNATO for the defence of our coastalwaters and the protection of con­voys across the North Atlantic; the.First Canadian Infantry Brigadeequipped, trained and ready in Ger­many and an Air Division of twelvesquadrons of Sabre fighters whichare I believe second to none in theair defences of Wes~ern Europe.

4. We have established a great planof air training which has providednine different North Atlantic coun­tries with a total of 2,700 trainedaircrew with another 900 under­going training today.

His Excellency Hubert Guerin, French Ambas­sador to Canada, expresses the thanks of theFrench people for Canada's NATO gift of fourminesweepers. (HS-30095)

5. We have also provided mutual aidin the last four years for a total

. of more than $850 million (includ­ing the cost of aircrew training).

The latest additional contributions ofMutual Aid is the reason for our meet­ing here today.

Some four years ago we decided todesign an entirely new type of mine­sweeper and when the designs .weresufficiently advanced, we placed ordersfor fourteen of these in various Cana­dian yards.

Six minesweepers have now beencompleted and four of these you seebefore you.

They are:HMCS Cnignecto, built by Marine In­

dustries Limited, Sorel, P.Q.;HMCS Cowichan, built by Davie Ship­

building and Repair Co., Lauzon, P.Q.;HMCS Fundy, built by Saint John

Drydock Co. Ltd., Saint John, N.B.;HMCS Thunder, built by Canadian

Vickers Ltd., Montreal, P.Q.We decided to make these available

as part of the Mutual Aid Program inorder to meet a shortage in other NATOcountries of this important type of craft.Following this decision six more mine­sweepers of an even newer design wereordered from Canadian shipyards:

Shipbuilding is an important and his­toric industry in the Province of- NovaScotia and in the City of Halifax. De­fence is one of the biggest operationscarried on in Nova Scotia. Throughoutits existence as a great maritime cityHalifax has been identified 'with the

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A Canadian and a French sailor are seen below decks in La Paimpalaise, formerly HMCSThunder, one of four new-construction, Canadian-built minesweepers officially turned over to Franceat Halifax April 7. Ldg. Sea. James Wan nap, Galt, Ontario, right, discusses the panel board inthe generator room with QM Jean Guiziou, Finistere, France. (HS-29991)

The four Canadian minesweepers turned over to the French Navy under the NATO Mutual AidAgreement still bear their RCN names on the reverse side of their ships' bells. Herbert Lowe,machinist and engraver at the Naval Armament Depot, Dartmouth, inscribes the name La Dunker­quoise on the bell from HMCS Fundy. The interested onlooker is Enseigne Raymond Lequel Lennec,French naval officer from Le Havre, France. (HS.29936)

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sea and with the armed forces. In theHalifax are'a today th.e total number ofservice personnel and civilians engageddirectly on defence matters totals over13,000, and with their wives and child­ren make up a total of about 30,000.

These minesweepers are of entirelynew design, with the major design andengineering effort being done in Can­ada. Since the end of the Second'World War the RCN has done an extra­6r-dinary job to design five new war­ships and many new types of smaller

. "Vessels, all of which are now underconstruction in Canadian shipyards. Ithas been a great credit to the RoyalCanadian Navy and to the shipbuildingindustry and supporting industries.

Altogether contracts have been placedfor the construction of 8,7 ships andauxiliary craft and for the completemodernization of forty-two other ships.That is a big program involving an ex­penditure of something like $300 million.

So far 18 new ships have been de­livered while the modernization of 24ships has now been completed. Withthe ships now in commission, togetherwith those in reserve and otherwiseavailable to the Royal Canadian Navyin the event of war, the Navy can nowmake ready for war service, within ashort time after mobilization, over 100ships, not including civilian-mannedauxiliary vessels.

We offered these four minesweepersto NATO and the Standing Group re­commended that they should be allo­cated to France.

For us it was a particularly happychoice. Canada has always had an es­pecially close relation with France asthe country of origin of those hardypioneers who crossed the seas 300 yearsago to push back the wilderness andbring their culture and civilization tothis new land and where first settle­ment in the new world was in thisprovince.

To do this the French had to begreat sailors and we think still ofJacques Cartier and Pierre LeMoyneD'Iberville.

I am particularly happy that partici­pating in this ceremony today is a dis-

tinguished representative of his greatcountry, His Excellency Hubert Guerin,who in addition to being a representa­tive of a friendly country is himselfa great friend of Canada and if I maysay so, someone whom I regard withgreat. affection and respect.

It happens that we have a personalinterest in one of these ships, HMCSChignecto, in that my wHe had thehonour of sponsoring this ship when shewas launched at Sorel, P.Q. in June1952.

There she used the time-honouredformula "I christen thee HMCS Chig­necto. God bless this ship and all whosail in her."

Little did she know that she wouldbe here today passing this ship on toa great friend.

:f.rrittst say she does not take kindlyto thiS idea of our passing on what sheregards as her own special ship but, ifit haS to be passed on, she does notknow any better person or place for it

'to go than to her friend the FrenchAmbassador and his beautiful country.

Mr. Ambassador, in the name of Can­ada and of the Royal Canadian Navy,I now hand over to you, as the repre­sentative of France, these four shipsconfident in' the knowledge that theywill be well manned and well used forthe defen'ce of France, for the defenceof Canada, for the maintenance of ourgrand alliahce and for peace itself.

OFFICERS AND MEN

On those days when it's mild enough to venture out.of-doors, the Wrens serving at Churchillradio station find themselves in a genuire winter wonderland. left to right are Wrens Betty JeanKelly, Betty Rivers, Norma McCallum and Juanita June Totten; Sub-Lt. Barbara Schmidt, and WrensJune Patricia Buchanan, Doreen Patterson, lily Arnold, Phyllis Chandler and Ruth lorraine Brown.(0-6457)

Appointments ofOfficers Listed

The following officer appointmentshave taken place or will take place inthe near future:

Cdr. J. V. Steele, to HMCS Comox incommand and as Senior Officer Mine­sweepers Pacific. Formerly at Head­quarters as Director of Naval Standard­ization.

Cdr. Breen P. Young, to Penetang oncommissioning, in command. Formerlyat HMC Dockyard, Halifax, as Queen'sHarbour Master and Master ~ttendant.

Lt.-Cdr. K. A. Stone, to HMC Dock­yard, Halifax, as Queen's Harbour Mas­ter and Master Attendant. Formerlyat Headquarters on staff of Director ofNaval Intelligence.

Acting Cdr. G. A. C. Scarth, as NavalAttache to Sweden and Finland. For­merly at Headquarters as Naval Mem- .bel', Joint Intelligence Staff.

Lt.-Cdr. E. C. S1. J. Green, to staffof Flag Officer Atlantic Coast as StaffOfficer (Intelligence). Formerly NavalAttache to Sweden and Finland.

Cdr, A, H. Abrams returned to RN.Formerly in Magnificent as Commander(Air) .

Acting Cdr. (P) V. J. Wilgress, toMagnificent as Commander (Air). For­merly Staff Officer (Air) at Niagara.

Lt.-Cdr. (P) Michael Wasteneys, toNiagm'a as Staff Officer (Air), Formerlyin VF 871 in command.

Lt.-Cdr. (P) J. W. Logan, to VF 871in command. Formerly in Micmac.

Lt.-Cdr. (P) J. W. Roberts, to Buck­ingham on commissioning, in command.Formerly 30 CAG in command.

Lt.-Cdr. G. R. Smith, to James Bayin command. Formerly on staff of Re­serv;e Training Commander, West Coast.

Lt.-Cdr. R. H. Leir, to Fortune incommand. Formerly in Sioux as ex­ecutive officer.

Lt.-Cdr. Roderick D. Hayes, RCN (R),to Brockville in command. Formerlyat Star.

Capt. (E) A. B. Arnison to staffof Commodore Superintendent AtlanticCoast as Base Superintendent, Sydney,N.S. Formerly Principal Naval Over­seer, Quebec Area. .

Lt.-Cdr. (P) J. J. Harvie, to EmpireTest Pilot Course, South Farnborough.Formerly at Shearwater.

Shpt. Cdr. E . .T. Gilhen, as PrincipalNaval Overseer, Quebec Area. FormerlyOfficer-in-Charge, Reserve Fleet Group,Sydney, N.S.

Captain (E) E. N. Clark, to staff ofFlag Officer Atlantic Coast as CommandTechnical Officer. Formerly in CapeBreton in command and as Officer-in­Charge, Apprenticeship Training.

Cdr. (E) D. H. Fairney, to CapeBreton in command and as Officer-in­Charge of Apprenticeship Training.Formerly on staff of the Flag OfficerAtlantic Coast as Assistant CommandTechnical Officer and Command En­gineer Officer.

Cdr. (E) D. T. Forster, to Quebecas Engineer Officer. Formerly on staffof Engineer-in-Chief.

Cdr. (E) H. B. Bolus, to Naden asEngineer Officer and Officer-in-Chargeof Mechanical Training Establishment.Formerly in Quebec as Engineer Officer.

Capt. (S) T. F. T. Morland to staffof Commodore Superintendent AtlanticCoast as Manager Supply, Atlantic Coast,and as Officer-in-Charge Naval SupplyDepartment, Halifax. Formerly atHeadquarters as Deputy Supply Officer­in-Chief.

Lt.-Cdr. A. H. M. Slater, to Trinityon commissioning in command. For­merly Fundy in command.

Lt.-Cdr. E. J. Semmens, to Ungavaon commissioning in command. For­merly Chignecto in command.

Lt.-Cdr. J. L. Panabaker, to Resoluteon commissioning in command. For­merly Thunder in command.

Dozen PromotedFrom Lower Deck

Twelve chief petty officers and onepetty officer serving in the regular forcewere promoted to acting commissionedrank in recent promulgations.

The total included five men at Nadenwho were promoted to the rank of act­ing commissioned ordnance officer.They included former control armour­ers, Chief Petty Officers R. V. Courtney,K. J. Province and A. R. Lee, andformer gunnery armourers Chief PettyOfficers W. E. Bell and W. M. Pitts.

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Knitting ClubFounder Dies

The fQunder of a knitting club Whichmade warm gar~ents for men of theRoyal Canadian Navy during the Sec­ond World War, Miss Eleanore Kinni­burgh Anderson, of 51 Alhambra Ave­nue, Toronto, died recently at the ageof 75.

The organization which she founded-w:as known as the Alhambra· KnittingClub. It met reguarly at her, home,with members knitting for men -of theRCN during the war and sUbseq~ently

f,or deep sea .fishermen.Born at Reading, England, she was

the daughter of the late Rev. WilliamAnderson, a Baptist minister, aI1d asister of the late Harry W. Anderson,one-time editor of The Globe, Toronto.

RCNCadets forBig U.S.

oExercise

Twenty-fi.ve cadets of the RoyalCanadian Navy and RCN (Reserve) willtake part in an annual amphibious as~ .sault exercise with midshipmen of, theUnited States Naval Academy on June19 at a U.S. naval amphibious trainingbase in Virginia.

The landing, near Camp Pendleton,"vill be made by 2,000 U'nited StatesMarines and 586 Midshipmen while14,000 men in 35 ships offshore providethe landing craft and furnish logisticaland gun-fire support.

The landing exercise, which termina­tes "Operation Tramid '54", is primarilyfor the benefit 'of 775 'midshipmen fromthe Naval Academy at Annapolis, Mary­land, and for the Canadian naval cadetswho will train with them. "Tramid" isthe military abbreviation for "trainingof midshipmen". About 500 cadets fromthe U.S. Military Academy at WestPoint will be among the observers.

The midshipmen and cadets will "hitthe beaches." with seasoned U.S.Marines, under the protection of aircraftsimulating ·the strafing 'and bombing orbeaches. Paratroopers will re-ipforcethem."

Before the full-scale operation, theU.S" ,rhidshipIIH~~:.'and Canadian ·ca'detswill have taken-:;both classroom instruc­tionand training afloat in all ph~ses· ofamphibfousWarfare. The ashore train­ing 1s given at theU.~. Naval Amphi­bious Base at Little Creek, Virginia.

Naval AssociationElects OfJi~ers

Last year's secretary, Bob Grahamhas been elected president of the Peter...borough Naval Association for 1954;. sue...ceeding James Hamilton.

21 year~

Calg~ry, Alta.i!Ja,uvary a, 1933',FtMCShips Naden, Van­.;'couver,Skeena, Armen­tieres,. '. Fraser, Stadacona;Avalon II, "Restigouche,St. Catharines, Givenchy,Cayuga, Iroquois, Nootka,La Hulloise, Haida, York,Shearwater,' Magnificent.Mention - in - Despatches,Long Service al).d GoodConduct Medal. 'March 2, 1954.

RetirementsCHIEF PETTY OFFICEREDWARD LLOYD HALL

C1LR237

Awards:

Rank:Age-:Length ofService:Hometown:JoiJ;1~d:

Served in:

you get an award like this, for doingwhat you like doing."

"4S a naval officer," he ,continued,"I Would like to thank the !'T;a,vy :Leaguefor. the fine work they ar'e doing, be­cause we receive into the Navy somevery fine rnaterial.

"Also as a citizen, I would like toadd that I think a graJ;1d job is beingdone for these boys in teaching themdiscipline, particularly through their seatraining,- for it is at sea that the b~stapplications 'of discipline a~e to befound.

"On retirement, I hope that I will beable to associate myself in 'some waywith Sea Cadet work, for I believe theSea Cadet Movement to be a step inthe right direction toward the better­ment of 'this country."

During the course of the luncheon itwas announced that arrangements havebeen finalized by the Navy .and ·theNavy League for the participation of22 Sea Cadets from all across the Do­~inion in overseas cruises this summer.

AW,ards:

20 yea~s

Victoria, B.C.March 12, 1934HMC Ships Naden, Van­couver, Fraser, Comox,Pembroke, Armentieres,Prince Robert, Stadacona,Cornwallis, Restigouche,Avalon, Niobe, Peregrine,Crescent, Unicorn, On-tario, QU'een, Chippawa.Long Service and GoodConduct Medal

Retired: March 11, 1954.

CHIEF PETTY OFFICERJOHN EDWARD FITZGERALD PARKERRank: C1EM3 (NQ)Age: 43Length' ofService:Hometown:Joined:Served in:

Retired:

Cookery ClassResults Listed

Ord.Sea. Morris P. Cassibo led the87th "CK1" class when final e'xamina­tion results were announced at Nadenat the end of the month. Runner-up inthe final assessments was Ord. Sea.Bernard R. Laporte~Theformer earnedthe ·creditable average of 85· 4 per cent,while the latter's mark was only oneper cent lower.

Others who 'passed the course, heldin HMC Supply School, Esquhnalt,were Ordinary Seamen Francis R.McPhee, Robert C. Ramsay, KennethR. Mitchell, Kevin P. Bryne, Roger M.Godin, Gordon T. Hodgetts, Donat J.Parent, Herbert H. Ewart, George E.Hea~ns and Eugene R.'Witt.

Navy League Hoiwurs /Rear-Admiral Bidwell

The Navy League of Canada paidRear Admiral R. E. S. Bidwell, FlagOfficer Atlantic Coast, its highest hon­our when it presented him with the"Award for Service" on March 13.

The award is given for a record ofmeritorious and outstandiJ;1g contribu­tions (a) on behalf of those who servethe Queen and country' at sea, (b) forthe training of Canadian youth. in goodcitizenship through the medium of theRoyal Canadian Sea Cadets and (c) forhelping to interest, educa~e and informthe people of Canada of the vital roleof seapower in the development of thecountry.

C. K. McLeod, Montreal, NationalPresident of the Nq.vy League,· madethe presentation to Admiral Bidwell ata luncheon in the Halifax headquartersof the Royal Nova Scotia Yacht Squad­ron. In his address, he commendedAdmiral Bidwell highly 'for his interestin the Sea Cad~t movement, and for thevaluable contribiItions he has made totheir work."

Admiral Bidw~ll, in ,rep~yi:q.g·to Mr.McLeod's remarks,' said, "It's not often

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Promoted to acting commissioner gun­ner (TAS) were three TAS instructorson courses in the United Kingdom,Chief Petty Officers Edward J.Bonsor,Brian J. Brown and Douglas R. Ingram.

,Promoted to acting commissionedboatswain (PR) were two plot instruc­tors, Chief Petty Officers Edward C.Percival and DallasB. Rogers, who arealso on, course in the UK.

Three earlier promotions includedCPQ Lindsay Hew. Pollock, to the rankof ~ommissioned'm,aster-in-arms; CPOJ. R." ,MacKenzie, to acting commissioned.engi~eer (AE), and PO George, A.Stone, to acting commissioned -storesofficer.

VisitTokyo

William Hayward of Cayuga, and om..cers and men from the three destroyersformed up on the dock to await thePrime Minister,

As Mr. St. Laurent arrived, his carescorted by a U.S. Army motorcyclecorps, he was met by Captain Charles,who introduced the Prime Minister toCdr. Hayes and Lt.-Cdr. Willson. Heinspected the· guard of honour, walkedpast the ships' companies and was con­du'cted to a flag-bedecked dais wherehe spoke briefly to the sailqrs in Englishand French.

The Prime Minister told the sailorsthat the Canadian Navy had achievedan enviable record of service in Ko­rean waters. He said that during' hisaround-the-world trip he had manytimes cause to be proud of Canada~ butat no time was he more proud; thanwhen he visited Canadian sailors, sol­diers and airmen. Following the 'PrimeMinister's address Captain Charles ledthe ships' companies in three cheers forMr. St. Laurent, who in turn led inthree cheers "for Canada".

The Prime Minister was then con­ducted to Captain Charles' cab~n onboard the Haida, where he signed the'guest book and' chatted informally withthe three commanding officers. Shortlyafterward, he was taken to the Haida'swardroom where he met the officersof the three ships, and signed the Cay...uga's and Crusader's guest books.

As he left the Haida he obliginglyposed for picture-taking sailors on thedeck, and paused to shake hands withmany of the men.

Before the ships sailed' later in theday, the commanding officers and offi­cers attended a luncheon in honour ofthe Prime Minister, sponsored by theCanada-Japan Society, at which Mr.St. Laurent 'was the guest speaker, andthe commanding officers and executiveofficers .were guests at a reception givenby the Prime MinIster at the CanadianEmbassy.

Both officers and men took advantageof the visit to see the sights in Tokyo.A favourite spot for the men was theMaple Leaf Club, operated by the Can­adian Red Cross. Parties were also or­ganized for the men at Ebisu Camp, andmany took advantage of the sightseeingtours available to them.

All agreed that the Tokyo visit wasboth a thrill-climaxed by the PrimeMinister's inspection-and a welcomerelief from patrols and exercises.

The Prime Minister'sto HMC Ships In

The destroyers Haida, Cayuga andCrusader highlighted their current toursof duty in the Far East by a four ..dayinformal visit to Tokyo early in March,during which time they welcomed thePrime Minister, then on a three-daystate visit to Japan.

The Haida, which had just completedher second Korean patrol in the YellowSea, rendezvoused in Tokyo Bay withthe Cayuga and Crusader, both freshfrom exercises with other units of theUN fleet, and all three entered Tokyoon the morning of Monday, March 8.

As the ships came alongside theirberths' at Shibaura Dock, they weregreeted by a U.S. Army· band andscores of spectators. Brigadier R. E.A. Morton, Commander Canadian Mili­tary Mission Far East, and Capt. M. N.Tufnell, RN, British Naval Attache,were the first on board the Haida towelcome the ships to Tokyo.. Shortly after their arrival, the com­

manding officers of the three ships,A/Captain John A. Charles (Cancom­desfe and CO of Haida) , Cdr. WilliamP. Hayes (Cayuga) and Lt.-Cdr. Wi!...liam H. Willson (Crusader) paid om...cial .callso~ ''the Canadian ambassadorto Japan, His Excellency R<?bert W.Mayhew, and on Sir Esler Dening, theBritish. ambassador. During the re­mainder of the visit calls were· madeon United Nations and British Common­wealth commanders, including Vice-Ad­mirai R. P. Briscoe, USN, CommanderNaval Forces Far East, and General J.E. Hull, Commander-in-Chief, UN Com­mand Far East.

On Tuesday afternoon the ships' com­panies were hosts to about 120 officersof the Japanese Coastal Safety Forceand the Maritime Safety Board. Thevisiting officers, many of whom wereformer members of the Imperial Jap­anese Navy, were conducted on a tourof all three shil?~'

The commanding offic,ers and officersof the ships were guests at a receptionin their honour by Brigadier Morton;were hosts at a reception for 120 diplo­matic and military officials, and wereguests at a reception and dance at Ebisu ..Camp, the Commonwealth 'leave centre. '

On Friday morning Prime MinisterSt. Laurent paid an hour-long visit tothe ships. All three -destroyers, freshlypainted and ship-shape, were dressedoverall for the occasion. A 60-manhonour guard,- composed ,of men fromall three ships and commanded by Lieut.

other officers elected include: Ce­cil McClennan, vice-president; Charles(Pete) Meridew, s-ecretary; Tom Brad­ley, treasurer, and John D'Angelontonio,Eric Kimball, Bill Moore, Bob Robert­son a~d Ken Remnant, members of theexecutive committee,

The association decided to donate$100 to the Legion's Poppy Fund forwelfare work among ex-servicemen. Amembership drive will be held amongnaval veterans. The association's pres­ent enrolment is 55 members,

Prize AwardedTo Top Cadet

Cadet Ross Hermiston, of Stirling,Ont., was selected best second yearcadet at Queen's University NavalTraining Division, at the final winterdrill at Cataraqui. Cdr. A. G. C. Whal­ley, commanding· officer of the navaldivision, awarded an appropriate prizeto the commerce student.

Officers NamedTo Venture Staff

Lt.-Cdr. Paul E. Buisson will becomefirst lieutenant-commander of HMCSVenture, Esquimalt establishment wherecadets enrolled in the RCN under thenew "Venture" Plan will begin trainingon September 20.

Other officers who have been ap­pointed to the staff of Venture on com­missioning this summer include: Instr.Lt.-Cdr. Alphee T. Boudrea~, Lieuten­ants Peter M. Birch-Jones, Brian Bell~

Irving, Bryan L. Judd and David W.Atkinson, Lieut. (E) Frank J. Daytbn(engineer officer), Lieut. (S) John D.

.Agnew (supply officer), Lieut. (S)Charles P. Ilsley (captain's secretary),and Acting Cd. Gunner Robert A.Smith.

As announced previously, CaptainRobert P. Wel1and has been appointedto command Venture, Cdr. RaymondPhillips will be, executive officer, andInstr. Cdr. George L. Amyot will bedirector of studies.

New Faces Seen'At A.ldergrove

Recent arrivals at Aldergrove RadioStation have included PO K. H. Stry­cker from Naden and Ldg. Sea. J, W,Ell~s from the Porte Quebec.

Among the depar,tures were Ldg, Sea,G. E. Whitehead to the Porte Quebec;Ldg. Sea. E. J.Sheplawy to Naden; Ldg.Sea.P. J. Maxwell toStadacona; Ldg..Sea, G. F. Freeman to the Comox; Ldg.Sea. Alexander Lazaruk to the JamesBay, and Ldg. -Sea. E. J. Bellefontaineto Cornwallis for duty in the Communi­cations School.

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CLIFF

~ YELL COMING BACK

A Bit About Radarby D. L.R.

RANGE = TIMI: TAKEN X SPE'ED OF SOUND IN AIR, .2 , '

YELL GOING OUT

.(-.~--------RANG'E---""----"

ME

T· .HE. EFFECT of radar on the. eventualoutcome, of Hitler's War was enor­

mous. Practically everyone realizes this,"and ,radar has become almost a house­hold word. However,. in the· first fineflush of enthusiasm the pendulumswung too far; those ¥(hohad once said,

I "These new toys are all very well, but"they'll never be asgond as the human

eye!" began to think that the' eye wasobsolete and theft radar could be

f'depended upon utterly, almost to thestage where it was no longer !really

\ necessary- to think. In the Services ittook only a few:unfortunate mistakes tobring home the falsity of such a conclu­sion, and· a great deal of effort has beenput into training people to understandthe, real capabilities and limitations of

i; radar. The purpose of this piece is to~ present a simple outlIne of the way inl.~ whIch .radar works, and the limitations

to which it is subject, for the benefit ofthose who have neither the need, thetime nor· the wish to delve into amps,'ohms and indices of refraction. To thosewho may be offended by mY' ·gross over­simplification of a fascinating subject,I shaH,apologize, in advance.

All of us in our childhood· (and 'someof us even later) have, stood in themouth of a tunnel .ornear a cliff andhollered like mad, for the' simplepleasure of hearing· the echo roll' back.In the case: of the cliff, most of us found

: that we .could tell the· direction in wp.ich

it lay by listening; and, after a few ele­mentary physics lessons we discovel1edwe had only to divide the time from thestart of the yell 'to tlie start of the. echoby two, to find out how far away the cliffwas (see diagram 1). Now this is theprinciple of sound ranging.which is used'by sea captains on the West Coast whenin one of their frequent fogs; it is theprinciple used' by asdic for' locating sub­marines and other underwater nuis­ances; and it is the principle used byradar, except· that instead of soundwaves we use radio waves. For an ex­planation of what a radio wave is Irefer you to Professor Einstein' or someother gentleman of slightly greaterknowledge than myself; .and anyway itisn't important· here except for two"things. The first is that a radio wavetravels at the speed of light, 162,000nautical miles a second. The second isthat if it hits something as it goestrundling out into space, some of itsenergy is reflected and will come backto the starting point, just as sound orlight will.

Consider your local· radio st8:tion fora. moment. Here the transmitter ispushing out a constant stream of radiowaves at a horrifying number of' timesa secon.d. This steady stream is calleda carrier wave, and it produces that lowmoan you hear when you tune in at6: 55 in the- morning; before .the stationhas let loose with Hiram Blotz and his

Smoky Mountain Gazoos.· 'Hira~ h~m­

self is carried on waves of a differentfrequency which are mixed up with thecarrier wave and sent out. When yourreceiver picks up the stream it sorts outthe two, cuts out the carrier wave andleaves Hiram to do his worst. Hiramin this case is unimportant, so we willget rid of him and think of the carrier.The carrier wave will be reflected fromlarge solid objects in the same way asany other wave, and if we had a re­ceiver near the transmitter we couldprobably pick up the reflections. Butm,ost of them would be drowned. by thecontinuously transmitted carrier waveand anyway since the carrier is con...stantly going out, the reflections wouldbe constantly coming back, so that weshould not be able to say when anyonebit went out or how long, it took to re­turn. For finding the range of theobject, then, this idea is a busted flush,although we :ql.ight be able to determinethe direction In which it lay by having'a directional aerial like those used inradio direction finding.

The obv~ous answer is to interrupt thecarrier wave, so that it transmits a shortpulse of energy, and then wait until theecho returns before transmitting again.We will then know the exact instant atwhich the pulse started. Measuring thetime· taken for' the echo to come back,dividlng that time by two and dividing

- the result into 162.000 will tell us the

"

I ~.'

-I:NTERVAL P'ULiS;E...-- ."",A~;_ .... ......,~;,.

~.... •ABOUT 2000 }JuSEC.=324 MILES ~'ljJ,SEC.=

324 YARDS, j ,

INTERVAL PULSE

LONG INTERVAL BETWEEN PULSES (324 MILES) 'GIVES E·C::HOES TIM'E TO GO ASFAR AS 162 ,MILES AWAY AND BACK BEFORE BEING SWAMPED BY FOLLOWING 'PULSE.

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SHIPS AND LOW ~ FLYING AIR·CRAFT WILL NOT BE DETECTED.ALSO OF COURSE, THE POWEROF THE BEAM AT 60 MILES ISONLY !4 OF THAT AT 30 MILES,SO EVEN AN AIRCRAFT IN THEBEAM MAY NOT REFLECTENOUGH' ENERGY TO BE DE·TECTED.

60M

30M

curves. beamEarth

BEARING DISCRIMINATION

Since torgets at sqfTle ronpo oie In beom atsome time, they produce 0 slngln echo on ~ls­

ploy.

There is one natural limitation to use­ful range which man's ingenuity is un­likely to get round. Like light, radarbeams travel in straight lines (unlessyou bring the Theory of Relativity intoit). The Earth, on the other hand, hasbeen fairly conclusively proven to beroundish, shaped more like an orangethan anything. As a result the radarbeam only travels for a short distimcealong the surface of the earth, then goesshooting off into space (see diagram 3).So, as long as aircraft continue to flyfairly low or ships to remain on the sur­face of the sea, we will never extendthe range of surface radar very much.The answer seems to be to put the setinto an aircraft and fly it well up. Asyou 'can imagine, this is technically'difficult and incredibly expensive, butit has been done.

Let's go back to the business of beamwidth. We said that we cannot havethe beam too wide OJ; we lose range, andwe cann9t have the beam too narrowor' it will not .strike anything except byluck. So we settle on a compromis~width (remembering that beam widthmeans the width in the vertical as wellas the horizontal plane). At this stagewe run into the problem of bearing dis-'crimination's (see diagram' 4). This ismuch the same as one of the problemsof human sight. If two widely seplj,ra-"ted objects of the' same colour areslowly brought together there comes atime when the eye can no longer dis­tinguish them apart. in fact, they look'like one large solid object. If they arefar away, this may happen before ~hey

aCtually touch one another at all.Exactly this happens' in the case ofradar, and the distance apart of theobjects at which this occurs depends,directly on the beam width. If thebeam width of the set is, say, sixdegrees of arc, the~ any two objectswithin that beam and at same rangewill appear to be a single object.

At much of a range the actual ,meas-'ured distance between the two targetscould be quite considerable; at fifteenmiles, for instance, they could be as

·.i.:"

sal, which is very awkward, especiallyif they are to be fitted in ships. Also,though it is possible to achieve greatranges, the beam becomes so narrow'that only by luck will it ever hit any­thing as it hunts around the sky, likepinning the tail on the donkey. So thatmethod has its limits; a too narrowbeam is not a good thing.

Finally, we can increase the sensi­tivity of the receiver by careful design"so that it will pick up very weak signals,such as might be reflected by a distanttarget, hit· by a weak beam. This is apromising line because an increase ofsensitivity by this means does not im-:­pose limitations on power supplies;transmitters or aerials, nor does it makethe receiver a thing of iaptastic size.However, it does make a receiver highlycomplex, thus increasing material andmaintenance problems.

range of the reflected object in nauticalmiles (see diagram 2). If we use ahighly directional aerial to receive theecho we can also tell in which directionthe target lies. We now have a radarSl;!t. What morl;! can we want?

As a matter of fact, we need quite alot more. And the sort of things wewant are a good deal more difficult toget than were the original range andbearing. So difficult, some of them, thatin spite of the fact that radar has beenactively developed since 1937, we arenot nearly satisfied, Compromises havehad to be made. I shall try to explaina few of them.

Obviously, the first thing that wewant from a warning radar is maximumrange. However, this must be balancedagainst the necessity of being absolutelysure that an object will be detected at ,a useful range. In other words, possible .detection at a great range must beweighed against certain detection at alesser range. This problem arisesbecause of the nature of a radar beam,which obeys the same laws as light. Theintensity of the beam varies inverselyas the square of the distance from thetransmitter, so that if one object is twiceas far from the transmitter as .anotherit will only be struck by a quarter asmuch energy. This imposes a limit t'othe useful range, since to extend it muchwould require enormous masses of gen­erating equipment and so on, in orderto increase the power.

Then again, the range can be in­creased by making the beam narrower.As you will realize, it is difficult to con­fine a thing like a beam to narrowlimits, something like putting yourfinger over a tap and try'ing to clean theother end of the sink with the spray:The early radar sets, because of theiraerial design, had wide beams and sotheir range was limited. It has beenfound that, roughly speaking, if thebeam width is halved the range isdoubled, when the power and the fre­quency remain the same. This is fine,except .that the physical proportions ofaerials designed to do this become colos-

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Ran!18 Scale,Swivelling at Centre.

DIAGRAM OF PPI, SHOWINGTARGETS, ETC" AND ROTATIONCF BEAM I N TII.'E WITH I<:.

A TYPICAL DISPLAY

therefore increases the probablflty ofdistant targets not sending back enoughto make an inipression on the receiver.So-balance again! In 'gunnery sets, therange limitat~on is accepted for thesake' of accuracy.

The last major difficulty we meet isin ensuring range accuracy. This isdifficult to obtain for two reasons. Thefirst lies in the fact that the pulse hasto be generated, built up and sent outthrough a mass of circuits and compon­ents, so that a time lag is built up whichdiffers for each set. The second, andlarger, lag occurs because it has beenfound extremely difficult to ensure that

. the display side of the set, which showsthe actual picture to the eye, com­mences to operate at exactly the sametime as the pulse leaves the aerial. Thecombined effect of these two errors is tomake the set show a range which is toosmall. It can be corrected for all prac­tical purposes by shifting the scale offwhich the range is read by an equalamount.

Sometimes is· is important that the setbe able to detect objects which are v~ryclose, as for instance in the case of aharbour defence set looking for midgetsubmarines to poke their noses up. Hereagain the pulse length is most important,because you naturally cannot expect thereceiver to pick up an echo while thetransmitter is swamping it with power.In fact, the set is arranged so that the

o

• (1)

SHIPSPULSE LENGTH 16S'

324'1{ APART,-A-----------, ,--A---,

Showinfl Ho·w Tarpets Need /3 e Only ~ Pulse Lenpth Aport.

f'\I\J\MJ\MJW •i~t

RANGE DISCRIMINATION

It will be soen that energy to Clod froftl 2ndtarget must travel 330x further than that to and,from lst torqet. Sinc9 that distance is oreat",than pull!'e length, tho set will bit able to dis.criminate betwoen tho two ech"Oos.

at a speed of 162,000 miles a second,which is equivalent to 324 yards in amillionth of a second. This length oftime, a millionth of a second, or musec,is the yardstick for radar work. Sup­pose, then, that our pulse of energy isbeing pushed out by the transmitter forone musec; it will occupy 324 yards ofspace, so that two targets which are thatdistance or less apart and on the samebearing will both be reflecting energyat the same time. You would think thatif that were the case they would both 'arrive back at the r,eceiver at the sametime, and so appear as one echo. That isnot quite so. In actual fact, the targetsneed only be half the pulse length apart,162 yards in this case, to be distinguish­able. This is, of course, because theenergy must travel back as far as itwent out, which means that the pulsepassing one target and striking another,say, 165 yards further on will havetravelled 330 yards farther' than thepulse reflected from the first target.Since this distance is greater than thepulse length, 324 yards, the two pulseswill return to the receiver and appearon the screen as separate echoes. Theonly way to reduce the discriminationdistance is to shorten the pulse lengthand this is done in sets such as are usedfor accurate navigation at sea, wherediscrimination is of great importance.But if the pulse length is shortened itmeans that not as much energy is re­flected from the individual target, and

INCOMPLETE ECHO GIVES INCORRECTCENTRE BEARING

Target any.where in beam produces a blipon the display across -whole beam, there­fore as 6 beam sweeps across target, totalwidth of "blip will be 12

G• This 'must be

bisected to give correct bearing, and eVen

then may be wrong.

BEARING ACCURACYDirection of Ii- movement .' >·l.

----- t-" .... /;··_,\!>-One lm~ulse ~ Next,impulse

'I f~\:\ : ~ Ship I .\ I I I\ I I I, I I I\ : I I'\ I I ,\ I I ,\ 'I :I I.

Beam \F-~~: /" .\ ~~ Beam,'. ,\\ :,'

fi-'1,

{mUCh as a mile and a half apart withour six-degree beam-width set and stillappear to be a single large echo. This

,sort'of error is obviously not acceptablewhere great accuracy is' required, suchas in gunnery fire control systems, andin , such, ..cases a very narrow beamwidth is used and other principles areemployed as well.

The next difficulty we met is that ofobtaIning bearing accuracy. Taking ourhypothetical set again, a single targetwould appear on a display as an echo12 degrees wide. As that would meana target three miles long at 15 ·milesaway, which' is v,ery. unlikely, someerror has crept in .;(see diagram' 5). Onewould think that the solution would beto divide the echo and use the centre ofit as,the correct bearing. This is donein ·practice, but it is unfortunate thatyou 'cannot depend an one side of a

.radar beam being reflected as stronglyas the other. Since this is the case, thebearing can,. be, and often is, in errorto quite a great enough· extent to be tooiria.ccurate for gunnery purposes.

Having balanced the bearing businessas well as possible we are confrontedby the matter of range discrimination(see diagram 6). How close together

.can two targets on the' same bearing beand still be recognized as separateechoes? Well, it depends on the lengthof that pulse of energy which is thebasis of the whole idea of radar. As wehave said, electro-magnetic waves move

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Three commodores examine the general purpose indicator of the Royal Canadian Navy's early­warning radar, demonstrated recently at Montreal. They are (left to right) Commodore H. N. Lay,Assistant Chief of the Naval Staff (Warfore), Commodore W. L. M. Brown, Assistant Chief of theNaval Staff (Air) and Commodore W. H. G. Roger, Electrical Engineer-in-Chief. (Photo courtesy Edi­torial Services, Montreal.)

Powerful Ship RadarShown at Montreal

receiver does not operate while thetransmitter is pushing out the pulse.This being SO,' the ''trfi'nimum rangeobtainable is at least one pulse length,since the receiver is shut off for thatlength of time, In our example, then,the minimum range is at least 324 yards.In addition to this, however, it has beenfound that enough power leaks into thereceiver through various channels toswamp it while the transmitter is oper­ating. Like anything else, the receiverhas to clear its head and gather its witsabout it once the surge of power hasstopped, and this additional delay,known as receiver recovery time, maybe as much as half the pulse length. Infact, with a high-powered set having apulse length of one musec (324 yards)

Tests were conducted at Montreal inMarch of the most powerful radar setyet to be produced in Canada for theRoyal Canadian Navy.

First to be completed under an' ordertotalling approximately $3,500,000, theset was mounted in the plant of themanufacturer, the RCA Victor Com­pany of Canada Ltd., while undergoingevaluation trials in which three Sea

the minimum range is likely to be ofthe order of 400 yards. Once again thesolution is 'to'Ctlt ddw1'f'the pulse length,so sacrificing range. It also helps if thepower can b~ reduced, since the receiverwill not be so badly swamped.

I hope I have been able to show yousomething of the principles and difficul-·ties involved in planning a radar set,The principles are fairly simple, butthe technical work involved in produ­cing a good set is very great, Duringthe Second World War the British werefaced with the alternative of eitherdeveloping radar or pursuing researchon the atomic bomb; in all that greatindustrial country there was neither thescientific nor industrial capacity to doboth,

Fury aircraft, temporarily based at Dor­val, served as targets.

Known as the AN/SPS-12, it is anair search radar operating at ultra highfrequencies and capable of detectingaircraft at ranges in excess of 100 miles.Sets will be installed in certain newconstruction ships of the RCN.

On March 18, a demonstration of theSPS-12 was attended, by officers of the

RCN and representatives of the Depart­ment of Defence Production, Amongthose present were Commodore H. N:Lay, Assistant Chief of the Naval Staff(Warfare), Commodore (L) W, H. G.Roger, Electrical Engineer-in-Chief, andCommodoreW. L. M. Brown, AssistantCliief of the Naval Staff (Air).

Connected to the operating AN/SPS­12 were three different types of planposition indicator (PPI) displayingrange and bearing data supplied bythe main set. These were the AN/SPA­4A, a lightweight unit designed to servechiefly as a high definition surface warn­ing display (manufacturer, RCA Vic­tor) ; the VK-5, standard RCN air warn­ing display (Canadian WestinghouseCompany) and the VK-3, an air warn­ing display (Canadian General ElectricCompany).

SIX NATIONSAID IN SALVAGE

It didn't look like a major salvage jobwhen a U.S. landing craft sank, bottomup, off the island of Paeng-yong-do onthe west coast of Korea, but before itwas completed ships and personnel ofsix nations were involved.

The operation was complicated lJYrough seas, cold weather and lack ofsalvage gear. The landing craft washauled ashore on the third day of thesalvage attempt. In the meantime, thefollowing had taken part:

A U.S. tug, which provided a diver;a Japanese-manned America~ LST,which carried men and equipment;' anAustralian frigate, which contributed awire to raise the craft; a South Koreangun-boat, which towed the wreck toshallow water; a U.S. Marine Corpsamphibious craft, which hauled thelanding craft ashore; the Canadian des­troyer Haida, which provided men andequipment for ship-to-shore communi­cations, and a British naval officer, whoconducted effective liaison between theassorted ships and personnel.

870 SQUADRONDE.ACTIVATED

Sea Fury squadron 870, which hadbeen serving with the Naval Air Facilityat RCAF Station, Summerside, P.E.!."was de-activated on March 30.

The de-activation of the squadron re­duced to one the number of squadronsat the Naval Air Facility. Remaining is880 Squadron Q~ ,Avenger ,aircraft,which spent April in' Bermuda on exer­cises. The squadron' 'was to return toSummerside early in May.

The de-activ;;i'tion of VF 870"is, a:temporary step in line with the RoyalCanadian Navy's announced 'plan fprintroducing jet-propelled aircraft. ' '

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ONE OF THE most drama-packed. incidents of the Athabaskan's long

service in the Korean war theatre oc­curred after the shooting had stopped,and it built up the Canadian destroyer'scredit with the United States Navy andMarine Corps to the extent of 700pounds of ice cream.

The incident was the rescue of threeU.S. Marine Corps airmen last August.Eight months earlier the Athabaskanhad re~cued a jet pilot from the carrierPhilippine Sea after his plane hadcrashed near the destroyer. The ex­change rate was then set at a quantityof ice cream equal to the weight ofthe flyer-in that instance 185 pounds:The Athabaskan had to leave before.she could collect.

The triple rescue came while theAt/J,abaskan was serving as plane guardfor ,the USS Point Cruz. A Corsair air­craft of the famous United StatesMarine Corps Polka Dot Squadroncrashed on take-off and both the Atha­baskan and the carrier's helicopter spedto the scene. Cameras were busy click­ing on board the Athabaskan and inher sea boat which was lowered almostto the water as the "chopper" beganthe rescue attempt.

Marining a wide assortment of cam­eras were CPO Douglas Laurie, PORichard W. Dickson, PO George Tattonand PO Douglas Alderson. They laterpooled their private negatives to pro­duce the accompanying sequence ofphotographs.

The first picture shows the Corsairpilot being raised from the sea, afterthe crewman had gone down into thewater to put the injured pilot into thehoisting sling.

Something went wrong with the 'cop­ter's engine and the next scene shows

The Function ofDiS'cussion

There is a North-of-England wordthat was, adopted by ships of the RoyalCanadian .Navy in the days .of theSecond World War amd applied to theman who w'as always; complaining. Theword :is "nattelt". The Oxford Dic1lion­ary detinesthe word as: ~ verb, meaning"to fret. to nag". It has; llhe connotationof a one-way conversation.

Discussion, as the term is understoodin the service, is the very antithesis qfnattering and is anything but a one-wayconversation.. Qu:ite simply it IS anexercise in the good 'manners of con-versation. ' .

We discuss in an orderly but informal

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the rotor almost stopped and the Cor­sair pilot descending again into the sea.

The helicopter hits the water witha monumental crash and chunks of.debris fly through the air. As the ma­chine remains momentarily afloat, thehelicopter crew scrambles out and hur­ries to release the Corsair' pilot fromthe rescue ·harness. Seconds later the

way because we want to find out theconsensus about an issue, because ourown opinions are perhaps not verydefinite and need clarification. We or­ganize the discussion so that everyonemay have a chance to make himselfheard. At the end we weigh thearguments for and against the point atissue and arrive as near as may be ata possible solution to the .problem.

Discussion is an exercise. in self-dis­. cipline. We learn to control the impulseto dictate to others, to refrain 'frommonopolizing the conversation.

The development of democracy andthe development of primary and second­ary education have gone hand-in-handin the last hundred years because werecognize that democracy without. aneducational system to train citizens tounderstand what democracy is all aboutis valueless.

"', machine upends and sinks.By this time the Athabaskan's sea­

boat, with PO Egnace Shushack incharge, is only a few yards away andcomes up to pluck the three flyers fromthe water. Then the ship's rail iscrowded as the rescued trio are broughtaboard ... (Standing by, but not shown inthe picthre series, Was the Athabaskan's

The discussion method is an exercisein democratic procedure. We readabout a given topic but we do not neces­sarily read the same material as otherpeople in our group. We exchangeideas, based on what we have read, andwe find ourselves in a better positionto appreciate the difficulties, ~for

example in the way of admitting cer­tain countries to the United Nations or,of solving the economic and social prob­lems besetting an underdevelopedcountry). When we have finished ourdiscUssion we decide on what ought tobe done with due regard for minorityopinion.

Discussion is also a safety valve. Any­body who has ever stood at London'sHyde Park Corner and heard the dis­cussions that take place there is boundto have been impressed by the extremeviews, the grievances and the propa-

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motor cutter, under PO Reginald Mc­Gruskin. It towed the seaboat back tothe ship.)

The next two pictures show the in­jured Corsair pilot, who had suffereda badly strained back, being transferredby jackstay to the Point Cruz.

The final scene is of the aircraft car~

rier steaming on her way, her men

ganda that he has 'listened to as well asto the wise moderation of some of theparticipants. The British themselvesregard this open forum as a safetyvalve. They say it is much better forthose Who want to talk to get it out oftheir systems in public than to bottle itup, go underground and work up to anuncontrollable and devastating explo­sion.

The discussion hour is a school ofresponsibility. In Western society weadmit that we differ amongst ourselves.Irrespo~sible people can, and sometimesdo, exploit these differences. But in or­ganized discussion hours everything as­sumes its proper perspective and irre­sponsibility finds no place there.

Above all, for the services the discus~

sion hour is a school for developingleadership. The officer who leads his

cheering the Athabaskan for a goodjob well done.

The Athabaskan billed the Marinesfor 515 pounds of ice cream, the amountrepresenting the estimated weight of thethree men, not. counting flying clothingor salt water.

As in the first rescue, the ships hadto part before the ice cream could be

group can develop further that poise inthe presence of his men that is an es­sential attribute of command. It pro­vides him with an additional opportun­ity for evaluating his men.

In short, while a discussion leadermayor may not have much to 'learnabout a subject under discussion, he canuse the discussion hour in a very prac­tical way to develop his own latentqualities as a leader and an administra­tor.

The Bureau of Current Affairs in itspamphlet "Group DiscussiOli" says thatthe function of discussion on currentnational and international affairs a,ndon the problems of effective citizenship,is to enable the Canadian service manto become a better sailor, soldier or air­man. Knowledge, the pamphlet goes on,leads to self-respect (synonymous with

collected, but the Marines assured theAthabaskan by signal that the debtwould be paid in full and with interestif they ever met the Canadians ashore.

The 700 pounds of ice cream are stillowing. The Athabaskan returned homefrom her third tour of Korean duty inDecember and is now undergoing 3­inch-50 conversion.

self-discipline) and self-respect leadsto better morale. Above all, the serviceman learns to appreciate the democraticregime under which he lives-a regimethat encourages freedom of discussion.-(Prepared for The Crowsnest by theBureau of Cu~rent Affairs)

FIREFLY AIRCRAFTSOLD TO ETHIOPIA

Fourteen Firefly aircraft, predeces­sors of the Avengers now used by theRCN for anti-submarine duties, havebeen sold to the Ethiopian governmentfor $100,000.

The Fireflies. were embarked in theMagnificent before her departure forPortsmouth, England, for modernizationof electrical and electronic equipm~nt.

The Fireflies were unloaded there fortransshipment.

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STRIPEY: A 'Tribute to a Vanished Race

"In his unassuming way he acted as advisor and confidant tothose of lesser experience . . ."

H E IS NOW only a memory, fastfading into the half-incredible

status of a legend. Soon, those whoremember him 'will pass in their turn,leaving only hearsay of dwindling con-'viction to vouch for his having been.Sailors in their cups will continue to

',tell of' him, to embellish and perfectthe epic of his exploits long after theyhave ceased to believe that there onceexisted a fabulous being called a Three­Bad.ge Able Seaman.

In those golden pre-war days everymessd,eck had its Stripey. He was heldin fatherly esteem by his messmates,and he wielded as much authority byvirtue of the ladder of stripes on hisarm as the average petty officer does.today. He knew everything and he had

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been everywhere, and in his unassum­ing way he acted as advisor and con-,fidant to those of lesser experience.Junior officers were. not above consult­ing him in matters of seamanship, forhe was a specialist long before the termwas thought of. His superiors coulddraw upon his vast fund of knowledgewithout embarrassment, sinceStripeywas a man of infinite tact and diplom­acy, with a way of telling people thingsin a manner that made them think theywere telling him. He knew he was in­valuable, but he never presumed uponthat knowledge, was never guilty of abreach of respect.

On the inessdeck, he performed bytradition many of. the duties which to­day fall to the Divisional Officer. Men

brought their' problems to him. Theysought his advice in their private affairs,arid laid bare their grievances to him.He was seldom at a loss. No matterwheth~r it was trouble with a girlfriendd'r 'a bad caSe of sea-sickness,Stripe:0 couid be consulted in confidenceand always came up with a wise andeffective solution. . "

He had an immense and infectiouspride in his mess and in his ship. Theywere ,never quite so good as his pre­vious;,mess and his previous ship, andhe had a sorrowful conviction that theNavy was going to the dogs. N.ever­theless he did his best to check the rot,and' he saw to it that his mess-trapssparkled just that vital little bit morethan .anybody else's; he shouted andthreatened and implored until his whal­er's'crew was the best in the fleet; andif his, gun was not first on the targetthere was the devil to pay. Ridiculewas his weapon, and such was the ex­tent of his prestige thabhis quiet ironiesand sarcasms could achieve more in theway of correction than a lifetime of"jankers".

He influenced also by example. Hiskit was immaculate and correct to thelast stitch. He knew re,gulations androutines like the palm ·of his hornyhand, and his' punctuality was some­times uncanny. No, matter what time,of day "fire stations" was piped, it some­how never caught Stripey in the shower:yet he showered more often than any­one else in the mess, and was swift inretribution upon those of unclean habits.He must have 'slept with one eye andone ear open, for he never missed any­thing that went on, and he was neverheard to plead the lame excuse that he"didn't hear the pipe".

Stripey's darning, dhobeying and sew­ing would put the modern housewifeto shame. He washed his whites in abucket with pusser's soap, and theycame out whiter than if they had beenbleached. He mended his own boots,he m~de rugs and model ships, he madeup his own and other people's periquetobacco (collecting a tot of rum fromeach "to flavour the tobacco") ,andsomehow still found time to tell inter­minable salty stories that were listenedto with wondering admiration.

And yet, with all these innate virtuesand acquired perfections, Stripey some­how never quite made the grade ofpromotion. His service certificate boreirrefutable testimony to the fact thathis c'onduct had been ever beyond re­proach, and his performance of his

.Spring can mean a lat of things-flowers, romance, spring fever-but to serious-minded peoplelike those in the photo section at HMCS Shearwater it can mean but one thing, namely springcleaning. Three of the staff, Cd. Officer John M. Turner, photo officer, PO R. W. Blakley and ABW. J. Parrell; were absent on detached duty and weight-lifter William Duggan, civilian photostatoperator, is oui of sight doing some strenuous repairs inside the bellows. At the top are POWilliam E. John and' broom-wielding Ldg. Sea. D. A. Peeling, PO R. C. Duiven occupies a centralposition. Left to right across the bottom are AB W. N. Gridland, Edgar (Tarzan) Westhover, filmlibrarian, and AB E. D. Manuel. It will be noted that the standard spring·c1eaning ratio of onesupervisor per cleaner has been carefully preserved.

duties was always eminently satisfac­tory. Such sins as he committed werenever discovered, or if discovered, wereexplained out of existence. His com­manding offlcers spoke highly of him,and he left the Service at last with aset of papers that would have gainedhim admittance at the Pearly. Gates.And yet ...

The truth was that Stripey had noambition. His way in the service wasone of fatalistic contentment, and hetrod it with good will and good humour,guiding the feet of others on the firstdifficult rungs of the climb to Ambi­tion's heights but never envying or de­siring to emulate their success. For.after all he enjoyed the respect andallegiance . (and not infrequently therum) of his messmates, without the ul­timate responsibility.

If Stripey survives at all today, itis in the pensioned seclusion of thechicken farm that was h~s conceptionof Paradise. One can only hope, withsomething of reverence in the wish, thatStripey's hens are laying well, and thatthe reality of poultry farming is asidyllic as the dream ...

But such is the perversity of human. nature that it is fairly safe to assumethat Stripey, as he gathers the eggs,pauses now and then to indulge in fer­vent dreams of the messdecks he willtread no more.-H.R.P.

ENTERTAINMENTCENTRE OPENED

AT NADENAn organization which' will co-ordi­

nate naval recreational facilities, bothservice and civilian-sponsored, with~n

the Pacific Command area has beenestablished with headquarters in HMCSNaden.

The purpose of the organization,which has been named the Naval En­tertainment Centre, is to act as a centralagency through which civilian groupsand individuals may direct offers ofentertainment or recreational facilities.to naval personnel; to co-ordinate andpromote recreational and entertainmentactivities within the service, and toinform naval personnel of availablefacili ties.

The plan is not new, but is a con­tinuation of past policy along more uni­form and standardized lines. It ishoped that the concentration within oneagency of the several groups formerlyconcerned with this phase of personnelwelfare will result in increasedeffici­ency in liaison between the Royal Cana­dian Navy. and local citizens.·

Evidence that the plan is workingwell may ·be found in the fact that dur­ing the Christmas and New Year holi­day period· 267 naval men accepted in­'vitations to be guests in the homes ofcitizens of Victoria and surroundingdistrict.

In addition to arranging for the ac­ceptance of the traditional hospitalityof the people of Greater Victoria, theCentre has arranged theatre parties,skii,ng trips, dancing and fencing classesand other forms of entertainment andrecreation. The Odeon Theatre has a

standing weekly invitation to out-pa­tients of the Naval Hospital at Naden,and the Totem Theatre;. producers oflegitimate stage shows, invited morethan 800 men to various productions ina period of two months. Local trans­portation and sightseeing companies areco-operating and arranging. low-faretrips to other cities and points of inter-est in the Pacific Northwest. '

The Centre publishes regularly abulletin which carries notices of forth­coming activities, suggestions for spend­ing leisure time, and other items.

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AFLOAT AND ASHORE

Members of .the Royal Winnipeg Ballet Company met the Royal Canadian Navy on boardHMCS Quebec. In Halifax, sailors in the cruiser were treated to' the sight of graceful lasses andthe sound of girlish' chatter as the ballet troupeexpl.ored every corner of the ship. Shown hereare the dancers assembled on the quarterdeck, after touring the ship in groups. (HS-29612)

PACIFIC COMMAND

HMCS Sioux

Since the turn of the year, the Siouxhas been kept busy working up hership's company. On January 12 sheleft Esquimalt, following a week of anti,.submarine exercises, to rendezvous withthe Ontario the following day and escorther on the first leg of her Australasiancruise, as far as Pearl Harbour. Thisproved to be quite a busy time, gettingthe ship tiddly for her stay in theHawaiian Islands, and at the same time

:carrying out evolutions with the Ontario.

On arrival in Pearl Harbour, bothships were greeted by hula dancers,complete with grass skirts and floweredleis, and then all hands settled down toenjoying the sunny tropical climate. TheHaidahad arrived the previous week onher way to Korean waters.. Everyonehad a most enjoyable stay in the is­lands, and having sped both the Ontarioand Haida <:in their separate ways, theSioux reluctilptly set course for whatwas then a coldand very wet Esquimalt.

The ship arrived in her home port inthe rain on Sunday morning, January31.

A ship's company dance, the firstsince the refit period, was held the Fri­day following return at the famousClub Sirocco in Victoria. With almosta hundred per cent attendance (dutywatch excepted) the dl,mce proved tobe a great success.

The following week was occupiedwith anti-submarine exercises in com­pany with HMCS Sault Ste. Marie andthe U.S. submarine Greenfish. The shipsailed on March 1 for Port Alberni.This began a cruise in summer-likeweather around one of. the most scenicplaces in Canada, Vancouver Island.

On leaving Port Alberni, the shipsteamed up the West Coast of the islandinto Nootka Sound for a brief lookaround (to the benefit of all camerafans on board) and then on to PortAlice. Here part of the ship's companywas taken on' a tour of the AlaskaPine and Cellulose plant in the after­noon, and that eveqing all who wishedto attend were entertained at a bridgeand euchre party by the townspeople.

Several valuable prizes were in evi­dence on sailing the following day forAlert Bay.

The people of Alert Bay proved everybit as hospitable as the previous hostshad been, and in honour -of the visit adance was held in the recreation centre.

From Alert Bay the ship moved toVancouver where· she spent the week­end, and those with homes in this west­coast metropolis made the most of it.HMCS Discovery opened the doors ofall messes to the ship, and many of thecity's high .spots were paid visits.

Leaving Vancouver astern, the Siouxthen entered Nanoose Bay, to carry outgunnery exercises and general drills fora week, on completion of which shereturned to Esquimalt on Friday,March 12.

Masset Radio StationPersonnel of this Queen Charlotte

Islands naval outpost held a smokeron February 6 as a farewell to Cd.Officer (SB) D. W. Smith, officer-in­charge, who has been appointed toHMCS Gloucester.

Mr. Smith has been succeeded byCd. Officer (SB) D. C. Filewod.

Members of the radio station staff.and their wives trod the boards onFebruary 23 and 24 in the village ofMasset when they presented a varietyshow. A can-can number by the wives,under the direction of Ldg. Sea. WilliamJackson, was undouptedly the programitem meriting top billing.

Hitherto unrevealed talents as vocal­ists were disclosed by Mrs. W. E.Butchart and Mrs. L. C. Laurie. Atumbling act, vocal quartette and a pan­tomine were other items on the pro­gram.

Members of the Masset· branch of theCanadian Legion presented a highlyrealistic portrayal of "The Shooting ofDan McGrew".

HMCS ElkThe Elk, formerly ML 124, has main­

tained a fairly activ·e pace during thepast few months. Highlight of her ac­tivities during the past month' was acruise to the northern waters of B.C.and the coast inlets.

The little ship left Esquimalt onMarch 5 and made her first stop atComox. The next day the Elk departedfor Duncan Bay, on the southern shore

of Seymour Narrows. March 7 saw herat Port Hardy, on the northern tip ofVancouver Island, where warm sun­shine was enjoyed.

Crossing Queen Charlotte Sound tothe mainland, the ship stopped atKlemtu, an Indian village. Here thecrew received an invitation to partici­pate in a basketball game with the localinhabitants but had to decline when theship's company failed to yield sufficientbasketball players.

The next stop was at Kitimat, site ofthe huge aluminum plant, where theship continued to enjoy balmy weatherthat had followed her from Victoria.Two days were spent at Kitimat, duringwhich tours were arranged of thealuminum company's development.

Leaving Kitimat, the EUc sailed forKemano, where the power is generatedto supply the mills at Kitimat. TheElk's crewmen were greatly impressedwith the development at Kemano., Thepower plant itself is built inside amountain. The water fall which sup­plies energy to generate the power istwice as high as Niagara and the tun­nel through which the water flows tothe massive power plant is 11 mileslong.

Homebound, the ship stopped againat Klemtu then on to Port Hardy, meet­ing unsettled weather all the way, rain,snow, hail and sunshine. Sailing viaPlumper Bay and Seymour Narrows theship reached Comox, where she stayedovernight due to a heavy snow storm.The Elk departed for Esquimalt onMarch 16.

Dis'turbed by the unfamiliar sound of women'sand children's voices in a man's world and bythe added fact 1hat he had to get into histiddley uniform, Swampy, Mark II, neverthelessaccepted the hubbub of the Huron's homecom­ing from the Far East with a certain amountof savoir faire. He is shown being reassuredby PO Raymond Bromley, of Toronto, that thingsare not always 1hus in the new, strange landof Canada.

With a crew numbering 12 men,HMCS Elk enjoys the distinction ofbeing the only one of HMC ships com­manded by other than a commissionedofficer, Her captain is CPO SydneyDobing, a member of the quartermasterbranch.

During the past month PO W. Y.Armit joined the ship from HMCSNaden.-J,E.B.

Aldergrove Radio StationThe biggest thing that has happened

at Aldergrove Radio Station in a longtime has happened. If personnel (andtheir families) have a peculiar, stiff­necked look about them, it's because­they have all qualified as sidewalksuperintendents, Trade Group IV.

This results from the personal atten­tion they have given the erection of thestation's new recreation building, fromthe moment the sewer trenches weredug. They saw the foundations welland truly laid and then watched theseven laminated wooden arches raisedskyward, and braced and bolted intoposition. That's when the cricks in thenecks developed.

The arches arrived wrapped in paperstrips, which became scuffed in han­dling. Aldergrove now boasts more"Irish pendants" than any other ship orestablishment in the Royal CanadianNavy.

Work is being done on the station'ssoftball diamond, but delays occasionedby an unusually wet spring make itunlikely the diamond will be in usebefore late May.

Married quarters has noted with con­cern the numerous "new entry" listingsfor Albro Lake Radio Station in a re­cent issue of "The Crowsnest", Whilethis has caused temporary worry, it isregarded as by no means a permanentstate of affairs.

ATLANTIC COMMAND

Shannon Park'One Sunday morning early in Janu­

ary, following the service at the Inter­denominational Church, the residents ofthe Shannon Park married quartersbade a final farewell to a popular padre.

Chaplain (P) T. L. Jackson, who formore than two years had served thespiritual needs of this naval commu­nity, was to take up a new appointmentand his parishioners were gathered to­gether to present him with a souvenir ofhis stay at Shannon Park. CPO N.Higham, on behalf of fellow residents,presented Pallre Jackson with a hand­some watch. Earlier that same morn­ing a fine brief-case was given to him

The Royal Canadian Navy has presented tothe Maritime Museum at Halifax a model ofthe S2Fl, a Grumman A!S aircraft which willreplace the Avenger ultimately in the RCN.Lt-Cdr. J. M, Clarke, Kearney Lake, B.C., isshown holding the model of the aircraft. (HS­29644)

as a token of affection from the mem­bers of the Sunday School class.

It was just before Easter, 1952, thatPadre Jackson came to Shannon Parkto see what could be done for the navalpersonnel and their families. He hadnot been officially appointed as Chaplainof the community, but what had beenintended originally as a visit turned intoa two-year tour of duty. In those twoyears he spent so much of his time andeffort for the good of everyone living inthe naval married quarters at bothShannon Park and Harbourview, thatthe residents took it for granted that 'Chaplain Jackson was their padre.

Help, advice and encouragement werereadily given, and the Padre was nevertoo busy to see anyone in need of as­sistance. Many who now reside in Shan­non Park are there solely through hisefforts. The Sunday School, which grewfrom a small gathering to a throng ofyoungsters approximately 300 strongduring this period, is but one church or­ganization that will miss Padre Jackson.

He has been succeeded at ShannonPark by Chaplain (P) A. G. Faraday.

HMCS GloucesterThirty men from HMCS Gloucester

marched in the tri-service parade whichwas held in conjunction with the open­ing of the annual campaign of theCanadian Red Cross Society in Ottawa.

Lt.-Cdr. G. B. Tamburello, USN, hasbeen appointed to Gloucester as advis­ory training officer and has taken upresidence in the married quarters.

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Looking understandably pleased obout things is this prize-winning trio of RCN Reservists anboard HMCS UnIcorn, in Sa'skatoon, They carried off the honours in the fifth annual awards ~ight

held recently in the Hub City training estoblishment. Left to right are: AB George Holdstock, winnerof the all·round proficiency oward; Wren Dorothy Lewis, winner of the prize for best Wren; andOrd. Sea. Charles Prentice, who was judged best of the new entries.

Their 16-week course completed, 10members of Class 41 are now serving atChurchill Radio station. They are AbleSeamen R. C. Bourdeau, R. J Chafe,K. A. Clarke, J. A. Douglas, H. R. Gar­r~t, R.' W. Hines, W. H. McGeein, J. H.Madden, R. L: Purdy and DonaldStevens,

The entertainment committee earneditself congratulations for a highly suc­cessful smoker in the ship's companymess on February 26.

Torpedo Anti-Submarine SchoolLieut. T. L. B. Hebbert has left the

staff of the Torpedo Anti-SubmarineSchool, Sta.dacona, to join HMCS Al­gonquin.

Lieutenants D. B. Babineau, A. A.Butchart and R. Dorken, of the TASSchool, have joined the Junior Officers'Technical and Leadership Course.

HMCS New LiskeardThe son and infant daughter of Lieut.

and Mrs. Allan Guy were christenedon board the New Liskeard on Sunday,March 14,by Chaplain A. G. Faraday.

Godparents for the son, David Allan,were Cd. Stores Officer and Mrs. A. J.Thornton, Edmonton, Alta.

For the infant daughter, Judy Lynn,Lt.-Cdr. and Mrs. N. L. Pendlebury,Saskatoon, Sask" stood up as godparents.

Following the service, a reception washeld in the wardroom of the ship.

Gunne'ry School

New additions to the staff of HMCGunnery School, Stadacona, on their re­turn from a gunnery instructors' coursein HMS Excellent, in England, are POErnest Watson, PO James Callington,CPO Thomas Starky and PO CyrilCoyle.

Floating CardsTrace Wind Drift

Cards in plastic envelopes have beenstrewn far out over the North Atlan­tic ocean by the Royal Air Force toassist the United Kingdom's NationalInstitute of 6ceanography in theirstudy of wind drifts-something whichha's an important bearing not only ort'navigation but also on rescue opera­tions and beach pollution by oil.

The first wind-drift card haS beenpicked up off the coast of Spain andits course and time of arrival fittedfairly well the Institute's estimate ofaverage Wind speeds and directions,

A reward of half-a.crown (about 30cents Canadian) or its equivalent inforeign money goes to the sender ofeach postcard received.,

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PO Edward Crooks has left the staffof the school and is serving in HMCSD'Iberville.

Top man in a Second Class Anti­Aircraft Gunnery Course and winnerof a Gunnery School commendation,with an average of 86·3 per cent in hisfinal exams, waS Ldg. Sea. Bruce Rob­inson. The class consisted of LeadingSeamen Murray Darrah, Douglas Ivany,Kenneth Kirk, David Smith, RonaldRobertson and Fred Byrne.

First in his class of 15 men qualify­ing for Third Class Anti-Aircraft Rateswas Ord. Sea. James Robson, with anaverage of 85· 5 per cent in the finals,Other members of the class were AbleSeamen Albert Beckwith, G~rald Bur­nett, William Dishman, David Deane,Edward Easton, William Kilbridge andJames Starchuk, Donald Scopie andKarl Kowalski; and Ordinary SeamenLaurie Little, Ronald Lea, Ian Morrison,John Macdonald, Rod Richardson,

Qualified as Third Class Layer Rateswere Able Seamen William Aylward,Robert Fletcher, Philip Parker, ThomasSmith, Joseph Montrueil and R~y Don­ovan.

Albro Lake Radio StationA smoker was held at Albro Lake

Radio Station in honour of CPO CharlesW. Bourgeois, on his leaving to join the'staff of Captain Patrick D. Budge, Chiefof Staff to CONDo This will be hissecond period of service under Captain

Budge, his last being on board theQuebec. In his new station, he willorganize the Reserve radio communica­tions training on the Great Lakes.

I

NAVAL DIVISIONS

HMCS UnicornThe fifth annual Awards Night at

Unicorn, the Saskatoon naval division,Saskatoon, saw Superintendent A. W.Parsons, officer commanding the dis­trict's RCMP Detachment, stress thevital role reserve personnel would playin the event of "another blow-up". TheNavy, he said, was.in all respects thesenior service-the service on which allothers depended.

Three members of the ship's reservecompany and five cadets from the Uni­versity of Saskatchewan Naval Train­ing Division were honoured ,in theceremonies.

In addition, Captain O. K. McClock­lin, commanding officer of Unicorn,pinned United Nations medals on twoveteranS of Korean service now sta­tioned aboard the Saskatoon 'trainingestablishment.

Presented with the UN medals wereCPO George Dyson, of Victoria, andLdg. Sea. William Ross, of Saskatoon.Former Ldg. Sea. Ralph Crawford, ofWatrous, Sask., recently retired fromthe RCN, was also to have been pre­sented with a UN medal but was un­able to attend.

In the awards to reserve person­nel, Able Seaman Oliver George Hold­stock received the all-round proficiencyaward, open to all members of the ship'scompany. Wren Dorothy Lewis receivedthe best Wren award. The award forthe best new entry went to OrdinarySeaman Charles Alfred Prentice.

Commander J. B. Mawdsley, UNTDComanding Officer, made the presenta­tions to award-winning cadets. Third­year Cadet' R. D. Yanow received theproficiency award for best all-roundcadet. Awards to first year cadetswent to Cadet A. G. Keith for naviga­tion, and Cadet D. J. Junk, for sea­manship. Cadet R. T. Upton won thesecond-year navigation award and thesecond-year seamanship award went toCadet E. C. Boychuk.

A colourful climax to the ceremonieswas the march-off of UNTD cadets re­cently promoted to the rank of sub­lieutenant. On orders from Cmdr.Mawdsley, Sub - Lt. R. J. Rushford,marched his new fellow officers, Sub­Lieutenants M. A. Bisal, D. L. Hicks,W. Kochanski and 1. F. Rogers, awayfrom their position with' UNTD 'unitsand across the deck to take their placeswith members of the ship's regular re­serve company.

HMCS YorkThe Toronto naval training division

is one of five establishments selectedto provide .specialist training in theSupply Branch for men and Wrens ofthe Royal Canadian Navy (Reserve),

it has been announced by CommodoreKenneth F. Adams, Commanding OfficerNaval Divisions.

York and Nonsuch in Edmonton willtrain writers' and storesmen for theSupply Branch while the other threeestablishments, Donnacona in Montreal,Discovery in Vancouver and Chippawain Winnipeg, will provide training forwriters, storesmen, cooks and stewards.

This new training program brings upto three the number of categories inwhich training is available at the To­ronto division.

VC 920, Toronto's own reserve navalair squadron, is on the lookout for youngmen to train as radio and radar oper­ators to man anti-submarine aircraft.

The reserve squadron believes thebiggest response will come from highschool students, as at least one full sum­mer will have to be devoted to flyingtraining. First chance will go to GradeXI students who will be able to startthis summer by taking at least twoweek's basic naval training. Flyingtraining will occupy the following sum­mer (1955) and wings will be awardedto those who pass the course prior totheir entering Grade XIII.

'The training syllabus will include in­struction on the operation and servic­ing of aircraft radio and radar sets,radio communications procedure andmorse code. The ground training willbe concentrated during the period be­tween September and May on a part­time basis at HMCS York and Downs­view Airport. The flying training willfollow this after school exam,S, at the

RCN's Air Station at Dartmouth, NovaScotia.

Those who win their "wings" will beable to stay in the Reserve and flywith VC 920 as regular members ofthe squadron the following year. Thesquadron is aiming for sufficient trainedpilots, observers and observer's matesto form complete aircrew teams to manGrumman Avenger anti-submarine air­craft. Training flights by squadron air­craft will take place during week-endsin the Toronto area. Flights to the EastCoast for exercises with the fleet areplanned for the future.

HMCS CabotOfficers and men of Cabot had im­

portant roles to play in Exercise TradeWind III, an exercise in naval, controlas it is put into effect over merchantshipping in wartime.

Officers participating were Lt.-Cdr.F. C. Anderson, Cabot's executive offi­cer, and Lieut. (SB) F. H. Bragg, ,Per­sonnel from Cabot' manned HC 268 forthe purposes of the exercise.

Courses and annual naval traininghave already begun for officers of thisNewfoundland naval division. Lieut.G. G. R. Parsons, training officer, hasundergone two short gunnery coursesat Stadacona. Others who left forcourses included Lieut. (E) R. G. A.Lawrence, Cd. Officer (SB) T. E. Gian­nou, Sub-Lt. R. C. Knapp-Fisher andSub-Lt. E. H. Winter. Surg. Lt.-Cdr.P. O. Gallagher joined the Stettler earlyin March for a training cruise.

Nonsuch, th!> Edmonton naval division, is justifiably proud of th!> division's band and choralgroup. A featur!> of one Sunday evening conc!>rt was the playing for the first time in public of amarch, ,"HMCS Nonsuch", writt!>n and conducted by th!> bandmast!>r, PO W. A. Halliw!>11. Bandofficer and sup!>rvisor of the division's musical programs is Li!>ut. (S~) D. R. JOMS. (Photo by DaveBain, Edmonton).

HMCS DonnaconaMore than 70 present and former

officers of the Montreal naval divisionattended a mess dinner on January 29in observance of the 30th anniversaryof the establishment of the RCNVR inMontreal.

The Montreal Half Company of theRoyal Canadian Naval Volunteer'Re­serve was established in 1923 and hadits first home in shabby quarters overa Chinese laundry-a far cry from thepresent quarters of HMCS Donnaconaon Drummond Street and a circum­stance that led the original quarters tobe dubbed in jest "HMCS Hong Kong".

The honoured guests at the mess din­ner included Commodore K. F. Adams,Commanding Officer Naval Divisions;Cdr. Guy St. A. Mongenais, command­ing officer, and former commandingofficers of th~ division. They wereCommodore Paul Earl, now NavalOfficer in Charge, Montreal; CaptainR. B. Warwick, Cdr. A. R. Webster,Cdr. D. J. Desbarats, Cdr. Harold Bea­ment, Cdr. P. A. Langlois and Cdr.John F. Stairs.

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THE BULLETIN BOARD

Snug in his inland home at Maple Lawn Farm, in Uxbridge, Ontario, leonarci H. Ball read ina Toronto newspaper an item about the collection of relics relating to Admiral lord Nelson",now,on display at the Maritime Museum in Halifax. Pleased to see such interest in' this coun'try', ·.Mr.Ball presented a teakwood snuff box to add to the collection in the Maritime Museum. The snuA'box is made from' teak taken from the HMS Victory, Admiral Nelson's 'flagship, and commemoratesthe battles of St. Vincent, the Nile, Copenhagen and Trafalgar. It" is shown above, ~econd from theloWer left·hand corner in company with relics loaned by the Navy league of Canada to the Museum.

Institution OffersWide Facilities

A library, containing what is prob­ably the finest collection of militaryliterature in existence, a lecture theatrefor the discussion of professional sub­jects, a military museum and a qUl;lr­terly journal are the facilities offeredto members by the Royal United Ser­vice Institution, Whitehall, London,England.

A brochure has been received fromthe Institution drawing attention to thefact that membership is open, withoutformality, to all commissioned officersof the active and retired lists withinthe British Commonwealth. Naval, mili­tary and air force cadets are eligible onthe recommendation of their command­ing officers.

Officers, on payment of the annualsubscription of £ 1 lOs, are entitled tothe full benefits of membership, includ­ing the four quarterly journals and uSeof the lending library.

The Royal United Service Institutionwas founded in 1831 and was originallycalled "The Naval and Military Libraryand Museum"'. The Royal Charter ofIncorporation, granted in 1860, laiddown the purposes of the institutionas "the promotion and advancement ofnaval and military science and litera­ture".' The scope of the Institution hassince been broadened to include theRoyal Air Force.

The library contains books by all thebest known writers and specialists onevery aspect of Commonwealth defenceand the conduct· of war, ranging fromthe latest publications to many rareold editions long since ol!t of print.

A large proportion of these booksform a lending library from whichmembers can borrow four volumes ata time. The purpose "of this to makeavailable to officers works of value forthe study of their profession.

Tn 'the lecture theatre, offi"ers hearsubjects of interest to the services ex­pounded by the best professional au­thorities. Listeners take part in opendiscussions irrespective of rank.

The Journal, recognized as the lead­ing publication of its kind, provides amedium whereby lectures and' discus- .sions reach members and messes allover the world. It also contains ar­ticles by officers and others with specialknowledge of professional scientific mat-

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t"ers, and of those aspects of internationalaffairs or other subjects which are ofparticular interest to the services. It isdesigned to give officers of each servicea better understanding of the others.

The Royal United Service Museum,which forms an integral part of theInstitution,. is housed in the historicalold banqueting house of the formerWhitehall Palace. Here are to be foundpersonal relics of famous commanders,trophies of great victories, models, uni­forms, medals and mementoes. Themuseum has been called "a veritabletemple of irreplaceable treasures ­symbols of the services' greatest achieve­ments and traditions".

Another section of the museum dis­plays modern exhibits, including modelsof wars.hips, armoured fighting vehicles,aircraft and weapons. Here also isshown a series of dioramas, depictingfamous episodes of military history,beginning with the landing of JuliusCaesar in Britain and including epic

battles which helped to found the Brit­ish Empire.

Detailed particulars of membershipsare available from the Secretary, RoyalUnited Service Institution, Whitehall,London, SWl.

CPOs ReceiveCow'se Preference

First prefer~nce is being given ChiefPetty Officers in the supply trades in ad­vancement to and selection for coursesleading to Trade Group IV, as that tradegroup has now become a. requirementfor supply branch advancement to ChiefPetty Officer First Class.

The courses are not compulsory, butthose who decline to' take them dis­qualify themselves from further, pro­motion until they qualify for TradeGroup IV. '

Commanding officers have been urged.in the interests of the service and theindividual, to make men available forthe courses.

The crew decked out in war paint and feathers and a Canada lynx (stuffed) snarling defiancein the bows, the In dian war canoe entered by the cruiser Ontario in the Royal Hobart Regat!a wontop honours in its class. The builders of the war canoe dodged the irksome task of hollOWing outa cedar log by constructing their craft around a ship's boat. (OT·1526)

Sell-Qui, CrowdAt Boxing Fic,sta

Shearwater put on six boxing boutsand three wrestling everits to a sell-outcrowd in the air station gym on Feb­ruary 3, In the feature presentation, AceMcCloskey, Halifax, 190, former Mari­time middleweight professional champ,decisioned Pat Phillips, former RCN:East Coast middleweight titleholder,

In the opener AB Ron Thibeault,Shearwate?', 145, TKO'd AB Al White­man, Stadacona, 149, in their debut toring warfare, Sea Cadet Basil Killgar,Shearwater, 147, was awarded the bouton low blows from AB E, Roberts,Stadacona, 140, AB Karl Kowalski,Stadacona, 147, decisioned AB Dan Kane,Shearwater, 147, AB Bob Matchett,Shearwater, 160, decisioned ex-sailorRon Grady, 155, Eastern Passage, ABFred Doucette, Stadacona, 154, got thenod over B. Leadly, Dartmouth, 160.

Ldg. Sea. Roland (Wildcat) West,160, won a single fall wrestling matchby a shoulder press on Ldg. Sea. Wil­liam (Kirk) Knatchbell, 172. In thesecond single fall vent, AB Ed Krul,190 outgrappled AB Tony Mattia, 190.

The lasf event on the card was atag' team match which gave excited

fans a rare show in and out of thering. In the ensuing debate both teamswere disqualified and the referee losthis shirt. William AB (Alaska Bill)Smethurst, 235, and AB Bill (Russian)Melnechuk, 175, battled AB Don (Son­nyboy) McNeill, 190 and PO (Danny­boy) McCowell, 210. All the wrestlerswere from Shearwater.

Officials included: Hon. referee, Cap­tain A, H, G. Storrs; referee, CPO AndyChartren; chief whip, PO L, J. Moro,timekeeper, CPO Mel Lumley, masterof ceremonies, CPO L. J. (Ginger)O'Brien; weigher, PO Bernard (Spud)Hughes, and judges, Lt.-Cdr. (S) E. J.Lloyd, Lt-Cdr. Charles Richardson andLieut. Ed. Wiggs,

Ontario RepeatsSailing V iciory

Sailing enthusiasts of HMCS Ontarioagain won the coveted Costello Shieldin a regatta with the Royal Suva YachtClub when the cruiser called there atthe end of March en route to Esqui­malt to close a three-month Australiancruise.

Canadian sailors first captured thetrophy when the Ontario visited theFijis early in 1951 in the early stagesof her first voyage to the Antipodes.

The shield, a highly polished tortoiseshell, is offered for competition eachtime one of HM Ships makes a peace­time visit to the capital of the islands.The Ontario has been the only visitingship to win. Particulars of each com­petition are inscribed on separate silvershields mounted on the shell and re­tained in the Suva clubhouse. The On­tario will get a replica for permanentpossession.

Coxswains of the boats with whichthe Ontari.o racked up a winning total'this year were: Captain D. L. Raymond,commanding officer of the cruiser; Lt.­Cdr. A. R. Pickels, Lieutenants E. B.Stolee, H, C. Tilbury and H. D. W,Bridgman, Lieut. (S) Robert Leckie,Cd, Bos'n P. S. Cox and MidshipmenR. T, Wilson, M. L, Verrier and JohnHarwood.

Harbour Ice11ocke,' Asset

While the WaHacebitrg remainedalongside at Pictou for her annual refitlast· winter, thick harbour ice was em­ployed with benefit to both shipyardworkers and the ship's company,

The refitters chipped and scraped theflare and outboard side of the ship withthe help of trestles placed on the ice.

The crew on the other hand, construc­ted a passable hockey rink accessiblefr~m'a jumping ladder rigged over thestern.

"The rink, coupled with recreationalfacilities offered by the community hall,provided adequate athletic outlets tooffset the lethargy normally encoun­tered by personnel during refits," Lieut.­Cdr. W', A. Manfield, new commandingofficer of the Algerine coastal. escort,related in his February report of pro­ceedings,

Unicorn TopsTwo-City Meet

Unicorn teams outpointed their south~

ern guests 32t to 17! when the Saska­toon naval division was host to a 30­member contingent from Queen inRegina recently ..for a week-end of in­ter-divisional sports.

Marksmanship, curling, volleyball andbadminton matches were played andthe total computed on the basis of fivepoints per victory,

pa~~ twenty-three

::'h.lb-Lt. M. D. Cameron led the;'I,'~niJ.;.

corn squad to victory in the marksman­ship competition with his 97 out of 100score. Wren Dorothy Bligh's 89 wastops for 'the visitors.

The badminton teams split 20 points.Queen's Petty Officers P. M. Doyle andNorman E. Richardson chalked up con­secutive wins over CPOs Bill Settlerand Stan Jamieson of Unicorn, whileSub-Lieut. Dorothy George and AB RonFerguson emerged from mixed doubleswith a pair of wins for the home teamfrom Sub-Lt. Edith Williams and ABBill Bellerose, of Regina.

Volleyball teams split the first twogames for five POitlts each, but Uni­corn's entry under Wren Dorothy Lewisedged Regina's, captained by Sub-Lieut.Alice Curry, to take the deciding points.

A Unicorn rink, skipped by Lieut.Norm McPherson, topped the Queenfoursome 10-:8 in the only curlingmatch completed. The second matchwas called a draw with the score tiedafter eight ends' when natural ice gaveway to a balmy chinook. The arrivalof the warm breeze also forced a call­off of a scheduled hockey game.

Lieut. Alex Rowney, training officerat Unicorn, made arrangements for themeet. Sub-Lt. C. D. McKenzie was incharge of the Queen party.

A return competition is proposed forRegina later this year.

From novice to marksman in less 'than theproverbial ten easy lessons is the record ofWren Dorothy Smith, a medical assistant atUnicorn. Under guidance of the training officer,Lieut. Alex Rowney (above), Wren Smith broughther score up from a beginner's 50 to join theSaskato~n division's exclusive "Over 90 Club"recently. She had no previous shooting ex·perience before showing up at Unicorn's newly.completed rifle range for the Sunday morningshoots. (Esquire Photo, Saskatoon.) .

PO Maurice Arbick, goalie for HMCS Bytown'sfirst season in the National Defence Hockey

. League in Ottawa, was chosen as the mostvaluable player of the four·team leag,ue. By·town lost in the semi·finals to RCMP after fin.ishing the regular schedule in, second place,(0-6441)

Bytown HockeyTeam Ousted,

Bytown was ousted from the NationalDefence Hockey League playoffs atOttawa il'} February by a re-inforcedRCMP team which sank the sailors 6-1and 5-0.

The Navy team, playing its first yearin Ottawa hockey circles, had finishedsecond in the regular league schedule,during which it had beaten the RCMPin every encouriter.

Bytown's goalie, PO Maurice Arbick,of Ottawa,. was selected as the four-teamleague's most valuable player.

The headquarters sailors journeyed toKingston on March 13 where they lostto Cataraqui's pucksters 6-3. The re­turn engagement was to be played atOttawa later that month.

Now that the initial step into head­quarters sport has been taken, Bytownplans to enter a team in the NationalDefence Softball league this season.Represented are RCAF (Uplands),Army Headquarters, and the RCMP­the same units. who made up thehockey league last winter.

Next year, Bytown will rene.WlllftO-Ei'keywars in an expanded league, composedof three RCAF squads plus a team 'eachfrom the Army and RCMP.

Sioux Excels inPuck En€ounters

The Sioux, her refit over, entered'hopefuls in all the major sports. Theship's pucksters beat the Sault Ste.Marie 8-1 on February 12 and twoweeks later downed Naden Miscellane­ous 6-2.

Sioux hoopsters made their seasondebut in Pearl Harbour against USSShea (destroyer minesweeper) and lost77-37. The next try, against Alert Bay,was better, the ship earning a 31-30decision after a close game.

The softball team lost 12-7 to theU.S. submarine Gudgeon in an out-of­season contest at Pea'rl Harbour. TheBritish Empire Games 'trials to be heldat Vancouver beckon and the Sioux hasproduced three track prospects, a box­ing candidate and two cyclists.

Sea Cadet ShootsPossible 100

Able Cadet George Rex Camp, ofRCSCC Victory in Montreal became thefirst Sea Cadet to fire a possible 100 thisseason in the Armed Forces Section,Province of Quebec Rifle Association.He is a regular attendant at Sea CadetheadCluart!=rs on Closse street, despitethe length of the trip from his home at12035 O'Brien boulevard, Cartierville.

Two champions battled to a draw in anexhibition bout during the C., E. Hand Trophytournaments in Stadacona gymnasium in Febr·uary. They were (left) Leroy R. Jones, ofHalifax, Maritime, professional featherweightchampion, and AB Freddie Deegan, who' holdsthe Dominion, Atlantic Command and Mari·time lightweight amateur titles for 1953. (HS·29423)

HMCS Shearwater captured the C. E. Hand Trophy for boxing on February 18, when they nosedout HMCS Stadacono by one point, with a score of 11-10. PO Mohamed S. Shah, left, captain ofthe Shearwater boxing team, is seen here as he accepted the trophy from Commodore E. P. Tisdall,Commodore RCN Barracks.

Shearwater TakesC. E. Hand TrOlJhy

Shearwater took the C. E. Handtrophy away from Stadaeona this yearby nosing out the Halifax-side sluggers11-10 in a boxing tournament on Feb­ruary 18 in Stadaeona gymnasium.

The highlight of the annual card wasan exhibition between AB Fred Deegan,135, of Stadacona and Leroy R. Jones,129i, of Halifax, in which they battledto a draw.

Jones is the Maritime professionalfeatherweight champ while Deegan holdsthe amateur Dominion, Maritime andAtlantic Command lightweight titles.

Eleven bouts were staged in all, fiveresulting in knockouts. Commodore E.P. Tisdall, Commodore RCN Barracks,Halifax, presented the trophy after thefights to PO Mohamed S. Shah, captainof the Shearwater team.

Cabot FormsRifle Team

For the first time since the commis­sioning of Cabot at St. John's Nfld., aDCRA team has been formed and in­terdivisional shoots organized. Team"A", consisting of the permanent staff,and Team "B", reserve personnel, areon the range every Thursday. Wrensin Team "Btl show an aptitude withrifles that has amazed Lieut. Greg.O'Grady, the range and gunnery officer.

Mild weather's arrival cancelled fur­ther hockey. The final outing hadCabot 'drubbed 8-3 by Parson's Garageof the City League.

An entry into the city league tabletennis tourneys is planned. Last ye<lr,Cabot's team was beaten only once, thattime for the championship. Basketballplans have been laid, new uniforms pro­cured and it is hoped that a strong teamfrom the division will play exhibitiongames with city teams before too long.

Onysko RinkUnbeaten in 'Spiel

Ordnance Lt.-Cdr. Bill Onysko skippedhis rink to a clean-sweep victory in theRCN Curling Club's closing bonspiel inHalifax on March 26 and '27. Elevenrinks competed 'in this first AtlanticCommand 'spiel.

Lt.-Cdr. Onysko's rink edged the run­ners-up, Dockyard Supply Department,by one point in an extra end after thegame had been tied,

Commodore E. P. Tisdall, CommodoreRCN Barracks, Halifax, presented prizesto the winning rinks at a club smokerheld in the chief and petty officers'mess at Stadacona.

Members of the winning rink were:Lieut. W. W. Palmer, lead stone; Instr,Cdr. J. D. Armstrong, second; Instr.Lieut. Terry Hicks, mate, and Ord. Lt.­Cdr. Bill' Onysko, skip. Number Two

rink consisted of Lieut. (S) S. F.Mitchell, AB A. E. Warman, CPO R.G. Skinner and Lieut. (8) A. C, Tassie.

Final standings showed that Lt.-Cdr.Onysko's rink was first with five wins,no losses, Lieut. Tassie's rink won threeand lost two and the rinks of T. J. C.Thomas, Gordon Belliveau and JamesWilkie were tied for third with threewins and two losses.

Committee officials were: Lt.-Cdr. T.J, C. Thomas, chairman; CPO RogerCurtis, treasurer and prizes; James Wil­kie, records and starter; Lieut. (S) A,C. Tassie, publicity and printing, andLieuts. A. L. Smith, Terry Hicks, andJames Wilkie, match committee.

Cornwallis WinsRetu.rn Match

CornwaHis won a return .22 rifleshoot at its own range in mid-March1825 - 1813 against Stadacona. WrenHelen Cameron, of Stadacona, fired thehighest individual score of 97. Earlierin the month, CornwaHis lost 1,745-1,824to the Halifax marksmen on the Stada­eona range in the first of the intershipchallenge matches.

In the second engagement, the visitorswon the senior class 472 to 46i, butCornwaHis won the intermediate,' juniorand Wren competitions. Scores were:intermediate - CornwalLis 460, Stada­eona 456; junior-CornwalLis 457, Stada~

cona 545, Wrens-CornwalLis 447, Stad­aeona 431.

Stadacona's senior "A" team broke a 17­year-old record of 487 out of a possible 500score when they posted 488 early in Februaryduring the race for the Halifax Garrison IndoorRifle League championships. The crack marks.men are, front row, left to right: CPO ArchieMoore, Commis,sioned' Gunner John Abrahamand CPO Douglas Clarke. Rear row: ChiefPetty Officers Jack Wolfe, Lyle Millward andHoward Oliver, (HS-29322)

Book Review

Under the Red Duster

-Deadlight

Ah me! ,That pens and paper were invented,To plague the souls of sailormen like we.

Come, fling the files to well-deserved perdition,And we'll aboard and beat to open sea.

Spring comes to Ottawa!The sap is stirring:

Trees don their verdant coats:Spring hats perch jauntily on fancy hair-dos:

The young men feel their oats.

"Touching the Adventures . . . Of' Mer­chantmen in the Second World War" . . .edited by J. Lennox Kerr. with a forwardby John Masefteld. a.M.; 256 pages; Clarke,Irwin & Company Ltd., Toronto; $2.65.

as every man who witnessed that heroicdeed must have felt, a glow of inspira­tion and defiance."

There is humour, too. "No Medalsfor Josephine" is the story of the cableship Faraday, the captain's canariesJoey and Josephine, and an attack bya Getman Heinkel III. The Way inwhich Joey and Josephine survive thisordeal has to be read to be appreciated.

It is fitting that the forward to"Touching the Adventures" is written,by John Masefield, sailor and poet. Themerit of this collection of stories is madeclear in Mr. Masefield's Words ... "Inthis book you will find mOEe of the realhistory of the war than will be putinto the history books."-C.T.

There is the record of the Jervis Bayand the day Captain E. S. Fogarty FE;!genwon the Victoria Cross. The story istold by Captain P. J. Davis who had' anawesome ringside seat aboard one of themerchant ships "in that floating city, theconvoy, under Captain Fegen's mayor­alty".The fight the Jervis Bay put upagainst a pocket battleship has beentold many times" but Captain Davispaints a glorioUs picture of her as hewatched her turn to engage. "I lookedaround for the Jervis Bay, and ... felta surge of pride when at last I pickedher out, steaming boldly ahead of theconvoy, her stern gripping deeper intothe water and ,smoke belching out ofher funnel. . She was heading desper­ately towards the raider to close therange of her smaller guns. At the sightof her steaming in to sure slaughterto save the rest of the convoy I felt,

And, too, the chairborne, deskbound saps are stirring­The poor benighted souls of Cartier Square,

Dreaming of ships and sparkling spindrift blowing,And cool salt-laden winds ruffling the hair.

Good shipborne sounds apd smells and sights assail them;Imaginations soar unchecked and free;

They feel once more the living deck beneath them.Thalassa! Moody: bountiful. The Sea!

OF THE HEROES of the SecondWorld War, the merchant seamen

were probably the least publicized. Yetthrough months of war they bravedmines, raiders, U-boats, wind and wavewith a quiet, dogged courage which be­came an inspiration to all men who godown to the, sea in ships. "Touchingthe Adventures . . ." tells us somethingof the life and exploits of these seamen,and the ships they served.

This book consists of 20 sketcheswritten by merchant seamen andblended into a whole by the editorialhand 6f J. Lennox Kerr. In simple

'but exciting narrative, these stories re­veal:'the fibre of the merchantmen. "WeWho Came Back" tells of a "dugout"seaman who, answering the call of na­tional duty after years of the beach,

, finds himself pacing a ship's bridge oncemore. This was not an easy thing todo, for as the author says:

"We had always been secretlyashamed of deserting the MerchantNavy ... In ;;111 of us was our secretpride in having been-we even likedto think we still were--seamen. Nowwe had to face up to the real, the,genuine, working seamen, and we were'nervous and diffident."

Peter Dawlish,' who contributes thisstory, reveals his struggle to convincehis master, his brother officers andcrew members of his competence. Hehad to convince himself that he hadnot lost the seaman's touch and in wrystyle he records an agonizing momentwhen charged with the task of hoistingDEMs gunnery stores aboard, eleIIl~nt­ary seamanship momentarily es,capedhim. ' , :~5" ,

"I stood there, a~ha~'t and ash~):ned,my neck and face getting hotter e{,~ry

second. I had forgotten how'fto shortena r,ape sling. I looked upward,raI;td sawthe shipmaster standing on the ,'lowerbrldge, watching me."

But that crisis passed and later, inthe Bay of Biscay, an encounter witha drifting mine restores, him to the re­spect of his shipmates. As Peter Dilw­Ush puts it: "I was back a~ain".

Much in this book tells of the hardershocks of war. The crash' of torpedoes,the wild scramble for the boats in thedarkness, the protracted agony of airattacks, the endurance of survivorsadrift in an open boat.

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LOWER DECK PROMOTIONS

A 'nock court martial wa, the means of acquainting supply personnel and other members ofthe ship's company at Donnacona, the Montreal naval division, with the workings of naval legalprocedure. The "accused", lieut. (5) Jesse Cohen (standing) was represented by defence counselCadet (5) Andre Bertrand, lieut. E. J. Lattimer and lieut. (5) D. ft. Wood, shown left to right. (ML.~40)

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Following is a further list of promo­tions of men :m the lower deck. Thelist is arranged in alphabetical orderwith each man's new rank, branch andtrade group shown opposite to his name.

AINSLEE, William A LSEMIALLDAY, Beverley J C2TD2ANDERSON, Alfred E LSEMIANDERSON, Frederick C LSEl'vilANTHONY, Maxwell S LSSWIARCAND, Paul A P2VS2ARCHIBALD, Hector M PIAW2

BABB, Edward W LSEMIBAKER, Carl R LSEM 1BALL, Richard R P1QR2BARON, Harold R PlRC2BARTLETT, Eugene A LSEMIBASDEN, Norman S P2BD3BEDELL, Kennetll A LSRPIBELLEROSE, William C LSEM 1BENTLEY, David L P2LRIBERNIER,. Marcel J P2NS2BEVAN, David 1' LSMAIBLAND, John 1' LSRPSBOHUCK, Joseph P2VS2BORLAND, Ronald J ,LSEMIBOUCHARD, Germain P1MA2BOUCHER, Alfred J P2CK2BOURGOUIN, Andre J LSCKIBOWMAN, Leslie W LSMAIBOYD, Robert H ,LSLRSBOYKOVICH, William ,LSEMIBROOKS, Cyrus A PlEM2(NQ)BROWNELL, Arnold H LSEMIBUCHAN, William LSEM1BULL, William S ,LSEMIBURKE, Wilfred H P1SH4BUTLER, Finlay J P2RCIBUTLER, Russell G LSNS1

CALDWELL, Ralph L P1CK2CAMPBELL, Bernard R LSEMICAYEA, Gilbert L. LSEMICHIHRIN, Michael. '" PlER3CHOUINARD, Guy J P2AW2CLAIR, Frederick G LSEM 1COCHRANE, Peter , .. P2SW2COULTER, Orval G LSEMICOWAN, Terrance A LSEMICRESSMAN, Robert 1' LSSWICRESWELL, Robert L LSEM 1CRUMP, Eric A P1MA2CURTIS, Edwin H LSEMI

D'ALLAIRE, Benoit J LSEMIDAWSON, Charles E LSEMIDENOMME, Louis W P2SW2DENUKE, Carl E LSEMIDEWHIRST, John V LSEM 1DICKS, Horatio H LSAASDOOLITTLE, Francis C P1ER4DOUCETTE, Allison J P2AAIDOW, Robert A , .LSEMIDOWHEY, Steve P2EM,.(NQ)DUGGAN, Donald C LSVSlDUNN, Leonard W P2CK2

EAGLES, William S LSEMIEARLE, Donald E LSEMIEASTERBROOK, William J '.' P2EM2ELLISON, Robert J LSEM 1ESPIN, George W LSMAIESTABROOKS, Rex Roo LSEMIETCHISON, Henry W LSEMIEVANS, Thomas J LESM 1

FARMER, William L P2AW2FAULKNER, Ralph B P2QRl'F:ERRIS, Robert L LSEMI

FLANDERS, Clayton E PlER4FORESTELL, Peter G , LSSWIFOURNIER, Robert J LSEM 1FREUND, Norbert M ,LSCS2

GADSBY, Edward L , .LSEMIGAMBLE, Melvyn A LSMAIGARSIDE, Charles T ,., LSEMIGILLISS, James F P2AAIGILROY, Charles A P2EM2(NQ)GLENEN, Roy C P1EM2(NQ)GOODWILL, Neil J P2EM2(NQ)GORDON, John S .. , LSEMIGOUCHIE, Gerald J LSEMIGRANT, Reginald P P2AW2GUISE, Ernest G P2CK2GUNN, Thomas H LSEMI

HAGEN, Lewis L LSAWIHAWBOLDT, Laurie B LSEMIHAWKHURST, William R P2EM2(NQ)HENDERSON, Colin E ..,. P2CK2HENDERSON, Simp30n S LSEMIHENSON, John C ,LSEMIHILL, David S LSVS1HILLIARD, Joseph A , .. LSEMIHOLLOWAY, Harold W P2NS2HOLMAN, Ernest L LSEM1HOLMES, William R, P2CK2HURL, Kenneth M P1NS2

IMESON, Norman A LSEMI

JAMES, Barry K LSEMIJOHNSON, John K LSEMIJOHNSON, MayneI'd V 1'1 EM2(NQ)JONES, Edward J " C2ER4

KAISER, Ivan G , .. P1NS2LAKINCHUK, Arthur W LSEMIKAUFMAN, John E LSPWI

KELLY, David W P2EM2(NQ)KESLER, Walter A LSEMIKIGHTLY, Kenneth A LSSWIKLOKEID, Ralph B P1SW2KNIGHT, RichardC P2BD3KOHARSKI, Nicholas LSEMIKOZUB, Thomas A P1CK2KWAPIS, Frederick T, LSTDI

LACASSE, Gerald E , LSEMILANDER, Thomas H , .. , .. LSEM1LAPIERRE, Guy J LSEMILAVERGNE, Vincent J LSEM1LAVIOLETTE, Paul J LSAWILECKY, Alexander A LSEMILEONARD, Osborne M ,LSEMILIDDICOAT, Allan D LSPWILINDSAY, John F ,P2EM2(NQ)LOCKYER, Robert D , .. P1CK2LONGHURST, Alfred T , P2AAI

McANDREWS, John R P2NS2McCARTHY, Joseph 1' LSNSIMcGILLIS, Leo P LSEMIMcGINNIS, Donald K , LSEMIMcHARDIE, Donald A ,P1SH4McINTOSH, Garnet L P2AAIMcKENZIE, Morris D LSSWIMcKINNON, Vernon E P2TDIMcLAREN, James A '" .P2SW2McLA UGHLIN, Irvin J P2AN2McLEAN, Denis M P2CK2NAcDONALD, Colin D LSMA2MACLEOD, Harry B P2EM2(NQ)MACVITTIE, Roy A LSEMIMATIACHUK, Peter C2ER4MEIR, Jerrold LSEMIMEIR, Ralph J , LSCKIMENU, Marcel L LSSWIMILLER, John Roo P2CK2MILLOY, Douglas F LSEMl,

MILLS, John : P1SH4MILLS, George A LSEMlMOREAU, Joseph R P2EM2(NQ)MORROW, Kenneth D , .LSQMSMOULTON, Douglas G P2AW2MULLETT,. Gordon LSEMlMUNSIE, pouglas G, P2EM2(NQ)MYERS, Edward C LSCK1

NORRAD, Donald C P2EM2(NQ)NYQUIST, Leonard J LSEMl

OLSVIK, James E , LSNSlONUFRICHUK, John LSEM 19'REGAN, Richard G ;LSEMlOSECKI, William R LSEMlOSHANEK, John A LSEMlOUELLETTE, Leo E P2SW2

PALMER, James P2CK2PALMER, Robert E LSMAlPARSONS, John E P2LRlPERRY, Arnold J LSEMlPERRY, David J , P2CK2PLANT, Gordon N P1EM2(NQ)POTHIER, Richard D LSEMlPRESSE, Lionel A P2NS2PRICE, Ellis T '. ' P2LA2PURDY, Robert C ~ '," .LSEMl

QUAIFE, JohnV LSVSl

RANDALL, Edward H ' C2QM3RAVEN, Donald.·~ P1PW3R,EEVES, Stanley F LSEM 1REID, Donald K ' P2QR2REID,'James W LSEMl-,

WEDDINGSLieutenant' (E)" James lGraham Clinton At­

wood, HMCS Shearwater, to Miss Janet Louis,Revelstoke: Tot;ridge,Plympton, England.

Able .Seaman Ronald Beatti¢, Gander RadioStation, to Miss,M. Greening, Port Bland-f9rd, Nfld. ,.

, Able, Sealllan Robert Browh. HMCS NewLiskeard, to' Miss Shirley Hall, Toronto. Onto

Able $~aman Victor .Cdrnut, HMCS Corn­wa~tis"tb Miss Lillian Mary White, Halifax.N~S." . '

Abie Seaman John Donald, HMCS NewLiske,ard, to Miss Winnjfred Butt,' Moncton,:N.B.

Able Seaman, Langdon W'. 'Gehman, HMCSNew Liskeard, to Miss Ruth Appleton, ,Wood­stock, ·Ont.

,Sub-Lieutenant Paul J. Godbout, HMCSThun4er, to l\1:iss, Carol Moran, Cleveland,Ohid;,U~S.A.

Able Seaman R. W. Hines. HMOS Glouces­ter, 'to Miss Edna Isabel .Joynt. ottawa, Onto

SUb-Lieutenant (E) James Allan Inglis.Royal Naval Engineering College, Devonport,to Miss Margaret Elaine Mercer. New West­minster. B.C.

Wren Betty .. Jean La.yton. Churchill RadioStati.on. to Able Seaman NorIl).an WUfred

'Kelly, Churchill.Wren Irene Martha LqWen; HMCS Bytown,

to Leading. Seaman Terence I;). Whalley,HMOS Gtottcester.

Lieutenant Richard Knox Niven,HMCSStadq.,cona, to Miss.,E~ithje Eleanor Bower,Shelburne. N.S. ' ,

Leading Seaman 'MaUhe,w Penny. '. GanderRadio Station. to. Miss. Elizabeth Mdrgan,Seal Cove, Nfld.

Able' Seaman Donald Reeves. HMCS N~wLiskeard, to Miss Margaret Massett". Kentville,N.S.'

Able Seaman Archie M. Ross, HMCS NewLiskeard, to Miss Mary Lavoie, 'Bathhurst,N.B.

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RIEGER, Valentine J LSVSlRIGGS, Bruce_A LSNSlROBERT, Wesley L LSEM1.ROE, Sherwood R LSEMlROSS, Kenneth B P2EM2(NQ)ROURKE, Albert L 'LSMl\lRUSSELL, Charles B P2CK2'RYAN, JamesE , LSRPSRYCROFT, Claire E LSEMl

SAVOIE, Yves J LSMAiSEVEGNY, Robert G ~ P1ER4SEWELL, Norman E P2CK2SCOTT, MorleyA P2AW2SHEPHERD, Arthur l\ LSEMlSIMMS,:Georg<; R J;..,SEMlSIMMS, Harold A LSEMiSLA.TTER, DonaldF P1QMlSMITH, Glenn LSEMlSMITH, James I LSEMlSMITH, Ralph W , LSEM 1SPAIN, Leopold N P2B D3STARR, Ronald E LSEMlSTEPHENS, Charles J LSS\i\TlSWANSON, Harry E C2ER4

TANAKA, Shasaku· LSPWiTAYLOR, Clarence J LSEMiTAYLOR, Francis M LSNSiTHOMPSON, Wilfred J LSEl\11TREFRY, Walter E ,LSEMiTUCKER, Peter LSEM 1

VAN \VELTER, Leslie M P2SW2VAUDRY, Raymond T LSPWlVEILLEUX, Joseph M P2CK2VERVILLE, Jean-Paul J LSSWi

WANNOP, James R LSEMlWESSEL, Frank E P2EM2(NQ)WEST, William J .. , . : LSEMlWHITE, William C P2VS2WIENS, Fr~nk N LSEM 1WILDE, Marnon K LSEMIWILSON, John S LSEMl\tVOELFLE, Francis F PICK2

RCN (R)WALLACE, Mathew LSAASIZZARD, Edwin C1MR3LAIDLOW, Robert, ~ ; PiAW2WALKER" Leslie ·C2MR3 ,WITHERS, ,Kenneth ' LSAASREID, Lloyd ' C2TDlHODDER, Eric LSQMSDOHERTY, Robert '.' .LSRPSCAMPBELL, Joyce WLAWlCOUSINS, Lewis P1QMSSTRELAEFF, Peter ' LSTDSHARTRICK, Robert ·.LSMAlLAIRD, Martin : ~ PIER3GALE, George LSNFlHAINES, Edgar LSEM 1KEWLEY, Gilbert. L.SARlLONG,RosweIL PiQMSCOMEAU, Russell ..•.•............ LSEMlSAULNIER, Norman ~ LSEMlZASLOWSKY,.William LSAWlJEANNOTTE, Paul C1ER4CAPPELLI, Giglio LSAA1KEEGAN, William '.. CiTD1MORRISON, Stanley P1CK2GALUSKA, Ronald ' LSAASDAWES, Edward e: : LSQMSSIMPSON, .Frank i>lRN3STEPHEN, George , ; C2MR3

,CHMILTSKY, George '. ,' '. LSAAlMcGREGOR, Leslie PiPB3SMITH, Nita WLAWi\VHITELY, Lawrence LSAWlDUQUETTE, Eugene LSCKlCOPETIUK, Raymond C2TD3OAKES, Carl P2AAi·CO:PELAND, Charles C1MR3SPEED, Harry PICR2

DAVIS, Walter - ·LSAASWAREHAM, Douglas PIPB2~OURKE-FREW,Herbert C1MA3MICHAUD, Leo.: , LSNS2

. CHAPMAN , Shelagh : WLCVlATKINSON, Geraldine .. , WLAW1KING, Herbert LSNSiSMALL, Ruth WAMAlSILLS, Harriet ' WLPWlMAYNARD, Edward P1PW2HUES, Helen " WLAW1BARBER, Robert LSAASGRAVELLE, Roger ; LSAW1MURRAY, John LSEM1GOVAN, Brian ' P21\W2WESTRAVER; Francis C2MM3SINGLETON, Helen WLAW1LAIRD, John ': LSi\.ASMONTGOMERY, Donna WLPWlALEXANDER, James CiMA3FARRAR, Frances WLSDSCAMPBELL, Kenneth LSCVlARNOLD, Frank C1EM3(NQ)DELPH, Ronald ABPWiBEAUDOIN, yves ABMAlLOHNES, John ABCKlDUNCAN, Elizabeth ;.W~AWlSMITH, Russell ~ ABNSlHOGG, Dorothy ,. WLPWlBURRY, Ralph , C~SH4

BIRTHSTo Ordnance Lieutenant-Commander B. J.

Ackerman, HMCS Naden, and Mrs. Acker­man. a son.

To Lieutenant (L) Derek Bate, HMCS ¥or,k,and Mrs. Bate, a son.

To Leading Seaman Len Cavan, HMCSQuebec, and Mrs. Cavan, a son. . The birthmakes Chief Petty Of]icer James Hann, HMCSMicmac, a grandfather.

To Lieutenant M. A. Considine. HMCSNaden, and Mrs. Considine. a son.

To Leading Seaman J. C. M. DeSalaberry,HMCS Bytown, an<;l Mrs. DeSaJaberry, a son.

To Able Seaman Norval Dix. Gander RadioStation, and Mrs. Dix. a son.

To Commissioned Officer (SB) D .. C. File ...wod, Masset Radio Station, and Mrs. Filew0d,a son.

To Lieutenant..Commander Earl A, Grant,HMCS York, and Mrs. Grant. a son.

To Lieutenant (S) 'Allen R. Guy. HMCSNew Liskeard, and Mrs. Guy.' a son.

To Leading Seaman W. T. Harling, MassetRadio Station. and Mrs. Harling, a daughter.

To Lieutenant T. L. B .. Hebbert,HMCSStadacona, and Mrs. Hebbert, a son.

To Leading Seamaz{ Daniel Kostuk, AlbroLake Radio Station, and Mrs. Kostuk, adaughter.

To Chief Petty Officer James Lawrence,Aldergrove Radio Station, and Mrs. Lawrence,a daughter. "

To Able Seaman Stephen Matthews, HMCSNew Liskeard, and Mrs. Matthews, a S9n.

To Lieutenant-Commander (SB)C.L. Mof­ford, HMeS Naden, and Mrs. Mo:fford" a son.

To Petty Officer S. J. Morency, HMCS Don­nacona, and Mrs. Morency, a daughter.

To Petty Officer William Murray., HMesNew Liskeard, and Mrs. Murray. a son.

To Petty Officer Ernest S. McMenemy, Al- ,broLake Radio Station. and Mrs. McMenemy,a daughter.

To Able Seaman A. S. Perry, HMCS NewLiskeard1 and Mrs. Perry, a dau'ghter. .

To Petty Officer Gordon J..:Roach. 'AlbroLake Radio Station, and Mrs. Roach•. a son.

To Leading Seaman Bruce Thompson, Gan­der , Radio Station. and Mrs. Thompson. adaughter.

To Able Seaman Maurice Vezina, HMCSNew Liskeard1 and Mrs. Vezina, a son.

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Printer to the Queen's Most Excellent Majesty1954