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WELCOME TO THE
HMCS VANCOUVER Family Brief18 Sept 2016
Cdr Clive ButlerCommanding Officer
HMCS Vancouver
14 September 2016 was Halfway Day for HMCS VANCOUVER:
Halfway done the trip, halfway around the world,
and halfway home!
Halfway Day
Esquimalt, BCDeparted: 13
June
Pearl Harbor, Hawaii
Guam
Darwin, AUS
Directed Workups in the SOCAL
area
RIMPAC
BILATEX
Crossing the Line
Ex Kakadu
Where We’ve Been
Goodbye Pearl Harbor
5
Transit to GuamTraining
6
More Training
7
And more Training
8
VAN Gets Fit
9
SwimEX – Marianas Trench
10
SwimEX
11
Banyan
12
Welcome to Guam
13
Guam
14
15
BILATEX
16
Crossing the Line
17
Crossing the Line
18
RAS HMAS Success
19
Darwin
20
Darwin Multi-Nation Sports Day
21
Sports Day
22
Darwin Divisions
23
Awards
24
Medals
25
Medals
26
Promotions
27
Promotions
28
1.5 tons of mail
received in Crete!
Interesting Facts!We have steamed over 15,000 nm on
Westploy so far, and over 35,000 nm since January!
In the old days, sailors would get a swallow
tattoo for every 5000 nm they
sailed—that’s 3 swallow tattoos
worth!
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We ate what?!?
Ketchup: 300 Bottles
Eggs: 51, 300 Bacon: 71,250
SlicesPeanut Butter:
285 JarsCheese Whiz: 48
JarsPOP: 13, 272 Cans
More fun facts!VANCOUVER has consumed
1,853,050 litres of fuel
Blackfish 12, our Sea King
helicopter, has flown over 233 flight hours in
87 sorties
And…58 people have celebrated a
birthday since we’ve been
gone!
Biggest Loser participants have collectively lost
33 lbs so far