For Cemeteries — No Stone Left Alone
There are over 216,000 identified veteran burials in cemeteries across Canada. It’s our goal to one day honour every one of those veterans with a poppy laid by a Canadian…
Russia Mocks Canada’s Feeble Arctic Defense
Ice melting and global warming woke up the Arctic neighbors of Russia. Either Barack Obama will call on the Americans to patriotize Alaska as part of an Arctic confrontation with…
Thales Canada Awarded Minor Vessel Support Contract
Thales Canada Inc., in a joint venture with Thales Australia Limited, has been awarded a contract to provide in-service support for the CAF Minor Warships and Auxiliary Vessels (MWAV) fleet…
US Warships Commissioned in Canada
Text and photos from navsource.org Frigates USS Asheville The second Asheville was laid down 10 March 1942 as HMS Adur (K 269) by Canadian Vickers Ltd., Montreal, Canada Launched, 22…
KRI Sultan Hasanuddin Conducts PASSEX With HMCS Montreal
Under the command of Acting Commander of KRI SHN-366 Lieutenant Colonel (P) Lustia Budi, KRI Sultan Hasanuddin from the ranks of Satkor Koarmada II, carried out a Passing Exercise (PASSEX)…
HMCS Trentonian Last Corvette Lost in Action
At 1:20 p.m. on February 22, 1945, as a convoy including ships from the Royal Canadian Navy (RCN) and the United Kingdom’s Royal Navy sailed out of Wales, the second…
Vancouver Shipyards Getting Land-Based Test Site
To further advance its shipbuilding capabilities, Seaspan has begun construction on a new Land-Based Test Site (LBTS) at Vancouver Shipyards that will integrate and test vital ship communications, navigation, and…
HMS Duncan Takes Charge of SNMG2
The Royal Navy has taken the helm of NATO’s principal force in the Mediterranean. Destroyer HMS Duncan is now flagship of Standing Maritime Group 2 – five major warships which…