HMCS Margaret Brooke in Key West February 29
US Navy photos of Margaret Brooke in Key West Feb 29th 5 – RCN 0
“Up to 16” P-8A Auroras for Canada Turns Out to be 14
The U.S. Navy has awarded Boeing a $3.4 billion contract to begin manufacturing 14 P-8A Poseidon aircraft for the Royal Canadian Air Force and three additional P-8s for the German…
HMCS Mastodon
HMCS Mastodon was built by W. Simons & Co. Ltd. Renfrew, UK in 1910 as a Bucket Dredge under Canadian Registry 129529. She was a steel hull measuring 200.3′ x…
State of the Polar Bear 2023: W. Hudson Bay Polar Bear Numbers Have Not Declined Since 2004
By Susan J Crockford PHD 2023 marked 50 years of international cooperation to protect polar bears across the Arctic. Those efforts have been a conservation success story: from a population…
NATO Ships Join UK Carrier Strike Group
NATO warships have joined HMS Prince of Wales for the start of exercises off the UK coast. The carrier and her task force practiced sailing in close formation and learned…
STRIKFORNATO Takes Command of UK Carrier Strike Group in Steadfast Defender 2024
For the first time ever, the 65,000-tonne ship hosts the UK Carrier Strike Group battle staff as she takes center stage in Exercise Steadfast Defender 2024. The aircraft carrier, crewed…
Unifor MWF Local 1 Member Killed at Halifax Shipyard
Unifor is mourning the tragic loss of a MWF Local 1 member at the Irving Halifax Shipyard. The worker died February 19th following a workplace incident that is currently under…
NATO: Meet Canadian LT (N) Kary-Anne Poirier
1. Where are you from? Thetford Mines south of Quebec City, located in the Appalachian Mountains with a population just over 26,000. It is named after the town of Thetford…
HMCS Niobe (II)
By late 1940 nearly all RCN destroyers based in Britain on loan to the Royal Navy, and the RCN corvettes were expected in Britain a few months later. But there…
Bronswerk Group Sea Trials of AOPS HVAC
Irving Shipbuilding, The Royal Canadian Navy and Bronswerk Group conducted cold and warm climate sea trials aboard AOPS HMCS Harry DeWolf and AOPS HMCS Margaret Brook (Spring & Summer of…