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En route, in the vicinity of Oona River, the ship was stopped as per orders to investigate a report of a local resident having found a torpedo. This was at the end of the month and was to prepare her for a winter cruise, which began on 1 February, 1929, when she sailed to Astoria, Oregon, and the 75 miles up the Columbia River to Portland. Naval Historical Section, Naval Headquarters, Ottawa, Ontario, A call was paid to Manzanillo on 4 April, 1930, and to San Diego on the 7th. Calgary was laid down on 15 June 1991 at MIL Davie Shipbuilding, Lauzon and launched on 28 August 1992. On the following forenoon, the President’s personnel representative arrived in the port to escort the officers to the Capital. There was more fog when she proceeded at 1400 so she took refuge in Duncan Bay to the south. They stated, however, that the armaments required would have to be paid for. From Colón, the ship proceeded to Bermuda where, on the 21st, she met CHAMPLAIN. Lieutenant-Commander R. I. Agnew, RCN, assumed command of VANCOUVER, while Commander C. T. Beard, RCN, became Commanding Officer of CHAMPLAIN. She arrived at Esquimalt on the 22nd. Savings, indeed, had been effected for him since, when they had been transferred, there had existed no longer any necessity to maintain them in reserve. She was not to enter the Atlantic that year, but was to stop at Magdalena Bay as she had in 1929, and spend two weeks at exercises. After the NADEN men had been set ashore at Comox, all the ratings from the ship’s company, with the exception of a cook rating on light duty, were landed in two watches for one week’s musketry course. One of the US yachts, Nancy, reported the loss of a man overboard. Bill Sanson, right, originally from Whycocomagh, at the change of command ceremony where he officially took over as commanding officer of HMCS Shawinigan in Halifax last month. Proceeding across Hecate Strait to the Queen Charlotte Islands, she entered Skidegate Inlet and came to anchor in Queen Charlotte City. The following morning, at 0830, the aircraft left to patrol the area of Queen Charlotte Sound westward of Calvert Island. They felt that extended cruising in tropical climates in these ships was detrimental rather than beneficial to their engine-room complements. But, of course, during the intervening period while the ships were being built, the Canadian Navy could not discontinue its work. At 0110 the 27th, while taking off ratings to the cruiser, the skiff struck a log and capsized. On 3 July, the citizens of VANCOUVER presented a silver-plated ship’s bell to the Commanding Officer for the ship, and a sterling silver serving tray for the wardroom. To mark the date, HMCS Vancouver’s Commanding Officer and Coxswain took the time to serve ice cream to the duty watch! These damages were made good on arrival at Balboa. The Commanding Officer of the US coastguard cutter Snohomish, who was in charge of the course, requested VANCOUVER to detach to look for the yacht. She was built as part of the Canadian Patrol Frigate Project. Canadian libertymen were brought back from shore direct to Durban in a large tender used for visiting liners, and were returned to the destroyers in the cruiser’s motor cutter. SKEENA was then ordered to re-embark its platoon and the Commanding Officer and his Executive Officer were accommodated in San Salvador in the house of one of the railway officials, it being too risky to make the return journey by night. In this latter port on 20 February, 1932, they embarked oil fuel and fresh provisions. She fired several salutes during her stay. After her commissioning on 1 March that year at Portsmouth, England, she proceeded to the west coast of Canada and there served out the remainder of her operational life. She visited Queen Charlotte City and, on 3 June, 1929, effected a rendezvous with Colombo in Milbanke Sound. The opportunity was taken of buying fresh fish from San Diego tuna boats when they were in the bay. They were wives of British railway officials from the town of Sonsonate where there had been some fighting between the customs police and soldiers on the one side and workers on the other. At Safety Cove, Calvert Island, a US halibut boat, the Silver Eagle of Tacoma, was found at anchor. It was increased to seventeen when, on arrival at Balboa, an Engine-Room Artificer was discharge to hospital. The Canadian Government wished to call her VANCOUVER after the famous navigator, but the name was capable of causing confusion as there was already a destroyer in the Royal Navy of that name. It would require for a time the use of two destroyers, already constructed and ready for service. After landing the injured man and embarking 50 tons of fuel oil, the ship left the harbour the same day to resume her interrupted passage to San Pedro. [67] NS 136-7-5 – Rear-Admiral Houghton:  op. The weather experienced during the remainder of the passage to the first stop at San Diego, was overcast with heavy rain squalls and a moderate westerly swell. Detachments of men from both ships led a parade preceding the Lord Mayor to the Hotel Vancouver. The good weather prevailing gave plenty of opportunity for boat sailing. with special thanks to CPO2 Chris Fraser for retyping these official histories. This was found to be 14 knots. On the 20th, the honoured visitor unveiled a memorial to the British navigator, Captain George Vancouver. The ship remained in Rivers Inlet from the 19th to the 27th. [54], Meanwhile, in England, the destroyers which were to become HMC Ships SAGUENAY and SKEENA, were approaching completion, and discussions were entered into regarding the return of CHAMPLAIN and VANCOUVER to the Admiralty. The ships had just been painted and the dust settled everywhere in a thin layer. Commanding Officer, HMCS Whitby (corvette) [06.06.1944 commissioned] Not too long after the war he and his brother Vernon formed Powell-Lester Grain and Shipping in Vancouver, which they ran for many years after. Full equipment would accompany the vessels free of charge, while any items required in excess of full equipment would have to be supplied by repayment. [48] HM Cruiser Dauntless visited Esquimalt in June 1930. The bell was hung over the entrance to the council chamber. Quietly and unobtrusively, however, the RCN had swelled to a four-destroyer Navy:  this fact could now be accepted, but it meant that were the ships removed, two ships to replace them would have to be found. Navy officer dismissed after dismantling smoke detectors to enable smoking on HMCS Calgary Commanding officer also replaced aboard HMCS Calgary Nicole Crescenzi Jan. 31, 2020 4:30 p.m. Local News News The aircraft arrived earlier in the inlet. The ship then steamed southward into Queen Charlotte Sound as far as the Goose Island group. Both were engraved, the bell with the name “TOREADOR 1919” on one side and “VANCOUVER 1928” on the other. You can use it for research or reference. The operation took the ship from Port San Juan and Port Renfrew on the Straits of Juan de Fuca to Saltspring Island in the Straits of Georgia, Discovery Passage and Johnstone Strait. Victoria, BC V9A 7N2. She then steamed to Milbanke Sound and Finlayson Channel to anchor at Carter Bay. On the morning of the 26th, the US halibut boat, Republic, was searched for evidence of illegal sealing and arms. Montego Bay, Jamaica, was reached on the 5th. Later, when in HM Dockyard, Bermuda, the ship had a new one forged to replace it. On the 24th, the Sub-division, while crossing the Bay of Tehuantepec, ran into one of the furious “Tehuantepecers”. This accident caused some slight damage to the propeller. HMCS Winnipeg is returning to B.C. Enormous catches were being taken and canneries and packers were unable to handle all the fish. Two customs officials and a drum of aircraft gasoline were taken aboard when the ship left on 3 September, 1931, for Christie Bay, Barkley Sound. A retrenchment in 1922, which carried with it a cut of a million dollars from the already lean naval vote, caused the paying-off of the submarines on 30 June and of AURORA on 1 July, 1922. The main reasons for their failing to do so however, was the lack of familiarity of the officers with the various Confidential Books involved and the want of experience of all in working with a large number of ships. Cdr Hutchinson took his new charge from Penang to Singapore, on the south tip of the Malayan Peninsula, and from there to Tokyo, and then back to Esquimalt via Pearl Harbor, arriving Feb. 22, 2016. On the 25th, US Destroyers Wickes and Philip arrived and, on the 29th, US Light Cruiser Rochester, the flagship of Rear-Admiral St. Clair Smith. A representative of the Governor of Baja or Lower California, having been sent down from La Paz, the capital of the state, official calls were exchanged between him and the Commanding Officer. About that time, the British Government was able to notice with interest that their Canadian counterpart was devoting serious consideration to the question of having destroyers built especially for the RCN. On 5 April, after it had left Antigua, the Flotilla received a signal ordering it to have armed men ready for an emergency landing immediately on arrival at St. Kitts. This time she was to be accompanied by an aircraft, a Vedette three-seater flying boat. Overnight anchorages were Elk Bay and Safety Cove. The rain was heavy and persisted throughout the stay. – Report of the Department of the Naval Service (DNS) 1932 – Rear Admiral F. L. Houghton, CBE, RCN:  “The Salvador Affair” in CROWSNEST, July 1949, p.4. PATRICIAN had served her last years on the west coast, stationed at Esquimalt, B.C. VANCOUVER left for another seal patrol on 25 May, 1929. The Commanding Officers of the ships joined the Mayor of the city and a welcoming committee to meet the train bearing the distinguished visitor. In November, she went on to the Victoria Machinery Depot slip and for the remainder of the month and during December, refitted in the Dockyard. The Canadian Flotilla parted company with the Home Fleet at 1210, 28 February, 1934. Disparity of wealth was, as so often in Central America, the cause of the trouble. VANCOUVER’s ship’s company were given particular commendation by Commander (D) West for their behaviour during the cruise. On the 4th, the day of her arrival, she fired 21 guns for Canada, 7 guns for the US Consul, and 21 guns for the King’s birthday. Before the two destroyers were paid off, negotiations were entered into regarding replacing them. They were boarded the next day. They returned by the west coast of Vancouver Island, visiting Quatsino Sound en route and going up to Port Alberni by way of Barkley Sound. From this operation it was concluded that there should be no difficulty in transporting 450 and 300 additional personnel in SKEENA and VANCOUVER respectively, provided that the passage was made in sheltered waters and that the length in time did not extend beyond the limits drawn by the rations carried by the embarked personnel. When they arrived, they found ARMENTIERES awaiting them with targets for firing practice. The results of his misrule was a revolution in December of the same year. On the 20th, the Sub-divisions met again at Kingston. With the Consul acting as interpreter, the President stated that foreign armed parties would not be allowed to land. The visit to Vancouver on 28 October, 1929, turned out to be less successful than hoped, the reason being that many of the leading officials of the city had not been informed that it was an official one. Music for the march was supplied by a band from SKEENA. These exercises were valuable for the men, particularly those in the signal and engine-room branches, and still more so for the officers, since the exercises were carried out in weather conditions which made manoeuvering and station-keeping at high speed matters requiring constant attention. [92]. The Canadian ships had to take second place to her as an attraction. A training cruise began on 8 October, 1929. She showed no sign of illegal sealing. The aircraft carried out two patrols covering the area north of Graham Island in the Queen Charlottes to the International Boundary. He noted another reason for scrapping the ships in Canada. There was a longshoreman’s strike in the port, but the only sign of it was the quietness of the water-front. Back in Astoria on the 6th, she shaped course for San Francisco but, after reporting a defect in the port stern tube bushing, which made use of the port engine inadvisable, she was ordered to return to Esquimalt on the starboard engine. The air in consequence was laden with fine brown volcanic dust. OTTAWA – Commander Bradley Peats, Commanding Officer of HMCS Vancouver will host a conference call on Tuesday, January 10, 2012, to provide a final update on the ship’s mission in the Mediterranean Sea prior to her return home. She despatched a working party to board the minesweeper and help lighten her by jettisoning her coal. While they were there, on the 15th, the anniversary of the sinking of the US Battleship Maine was commemorated. This was in accordance with the Admiralty’s stipulation that the ship should be rendered incapable of warlike service as defined in the London Naval Treaty of 1930. The trial was postponed until the gear was restowed and the ship was clear of Boundary Pass and in the open waters of the Straits of Georgia. To the suggestion by the Lords of the Admiralty that the destroyers be sailed to England for scrapping, the CNS pointed out that the risk of an Atlantic crossing would necessitate escorting by a convoy vessel. Entering the harbour, they steamed toward the Dockyard in triumphal procession, to the accompaniment of ships’ whistles. The two destroyers parted on the 10th, VANCOUVER proceeding to Nanaimo and SKEENA to Victoria. The aircraft arrived from Vancouver at 1630 and was refuelled and moored. [40] The Maine was destroyed by a mysterious explosion in Havana harbour on 15 February, 1898. The programme was also affected by the embarking in the destroyers of the Canadian Trade Commissioners at Jamaica, Panama and Trinidad. Two days later, in Ioco, she took on fuel oil and landed five drums of unused aviation gas. On the 6th, the ships entered the north-east channel at New Providence Island, coming to anchor north of Hog Island, a flat and narrow island which protects the harbour of Nassau. [28], VANCOUVER remained in harbour during December, and in January 1929, left Esquimalt to oil at Ioco, near Vancouver. OTTAWA – Commander Bradley Peats, Commanding Officer of HMCS Vancouver will host a conference call on Tuesday, January 10, 2012, to provide a final update on the ship’s mission in the Mediterranean Sea prior to her return home. [34], On the 29th, VANCOUVER and Colombo embarked at Vancouver two companies of Seaforth Highlanders and one section Field Ambulance. An anchor watch was set and steam kept at short notice throughout the night. [79] It left San Francisco the 10th and arrived next day in Honolulu. Preparations were begun to form armed platoons from each ship. Damage done to both ships was repaired there. Owing to continuous, though moderate, head winds, and a dirty bottom, the hourly distance made was approximately 12.5 miles at revolutions for 14 knots. HMCS SKEENA had arrived in Esquimalt on 7 August, 1931. January 14, 2021 – HMCS Vancouver has entered the final phase of a lengthy and extensive refit. On arriving in San Salvador, Commander (D) was astonished to learn that the consul had made his request for the landing of the platoons without referring the matter to the government. The motive behind this was to acquaint the boys of the province with living conditions in naval ships and to try to interest them in naval matters. Two thousand people came aboard and such was the interest shown in the ship by all classes of people, that it was strongly recommended that at least one Canadian warship visit the port annually. At 1220, the aircraft was sighted flying in the direction of Safety Cove, so the ship returned to the anchorage. On the 15th, the Vedette was despatched to Vancouver and the destroyer sailed the next day to Elk Bay and on the 17th to Comox. The operation appeared to have the desired effect, to the great satisfaction of the Administrator of the island. On the 9th of the month, the destroyer embarked two officers and sixty other ranks of “B” Company Princess Patricia’s Canadian Light Infantry and landed them at Comox where they repaired to the range for rifle practice. in the usual extremely efficient manner which three previous transits have allowed me to expect.” [19]. Cmdr. [59], Shortly after these events, the two new destroyers joined the Royal Canadian Navy at Portsmouth. Calls were paid to Acapulco and Manzanillo and there were two days of exercising in Magdalena Bay. Both VANCOUVER and CHAMPLAIN were offered for sale in February 1937. Special emphasis was placed, both at sea and in harbour, on working up personnel and equipment in flotilla work and gunnery and torpedo concentration, in preparation for exercises with the Home Fleet in February. Leaving in the evening for the southern end of Vancouver Island, they disembarked the troops next morning at Parry Bay. During April 1932, the annual musketry course was held at Comox, the two destroyers and ARMENTIERES proceeding to the port on the 4th and remaining until the end of the month. He had been able to say that, apart from the fact that a motor boat was urgently required and that a portion of the electric wiring required renewal, the ship was in a “highly efficient condition and capable of any service.”. In 1910, the year of the passage of the Naval Service Act, the RCN began with the acquisition of HMC Cruisers RAINBOW and NIOBE. The cruise was adjudged a success by all. Another sealing patrol came up for the ship in April 1931. VANCOUVER’s Commanding Officer passed the message by wireless to SKEENA and was ordered not to land the platoon. [94]. In the evening of that day, speed was increased from 8 to 12 knots. At noon it cleared slightly to the eastward and the decision was made to steam into Prince Rupert rather than to Naden Harbour on the Queen Charlotte Islands, which had been the ship’s destination. [52]. In an address to the men, he stated that he was proud to learn that 90% of them were Canadian-born, a fact which revealed clearly the progress the Navy had made since the days when NIOBE and RAINBOW had been commissioned with ships’ companies recruited largely from the Royal Navy. The destroyer returned to Acajutla on the 25th.[67]. VANCOUVER received orders to proceed to Esquimalt. At Safety Cove on the 27th, the Canadian halibut boat, Smuchmona III of Vancouver, was boarded. The following day, she returned to Prince Rupert and there embarked for passage to Esquimalt, the Honourable D. M. Sutherland, the Minister of National Defence. Later in the month, “Fleet Week” in Seattle attracted them to that port. The purpose of the increase was to meet the manning needs of both the ships in commission and those under construction, as well as to allow both officers and ratings to attend courses in gunnery, torpedo, etc., without necessitating loans of an undue number of Royal Navy personnel to replace them. She was the flagship of Vice-Admiral V. J. Haggard, the C-in-C North America and West Indies Station. Parting from her companion on the following day, VANCOUVER sailed to Queen Charlotte Sound. [55], A further increase of personnel had been authorized on 30 October, 1929, which brought the complement of the RCN to 104 officers and 792 ratings, a total of 896. Further, it was noted that, since they had not undergone the rough usage or long-running of the older ships, they were in better condition. Damage was not great. The Honourable P. C. Larkin was received by Vice-Admiral Sir Osmond de Beauvoir Brook, KCB, KCMG, KCVO, Commander-in-Chief Portsmouth Dockyard, and Commander Beard, at the Admiral’s residence. In Basseterre on the 24th, the Commander-in-Chief Home Fleet walked around SAGUENAY and SKEENA, while the Admiral Commanding Second Cruiser Squadron made a similar inspection of CHAMPLAIN and VANCOUVER. At Kingston, Jamaica, on the 16th, the Western Division parted company with their eastern companions, steaming out of the harbour and shaping course for the Panama Canal. In October 1936, several military officers were embarked by VANCOUVER and conveyed to various ports to inspect harbours and installations. As seems to be customary in such upheavals, the ousted president succeeded in escaping with his fortune, in this instance to Guatemala. The port officials proved to be cordial, all customs and immigration laws being waived in the ship’s favour to facilitate the landing of victualling assistants and the embarking of fresh provisions. After landing, they were about to march off to the railway station when the Vice-Consul in the village informed the officer in charge that the government had issued orders through the local Commandant that no foreign armed party was to be allowed to land. Noting, however, the number of destroyers which were then being built for the Admiralty, and their ever-increasing size, and taking into consideration at the same time the poor material conditions of the old destroyers, he suspected that, should they be returned to England, they would be promptly sold for scrap. The Commanding Officers of both ships exchanged visits. ARMENTIERES appeared in this pulp and paper port with diving equipment. Durban arrived there the 24th, and the two ships joined company again to visit Ladysmith to the south on the 30th. ARMENTIERES’ fellow minesweeper THIEPVAL was gone by this time. This was duly given, along with further instructions, during the night. Commodore Hose suggested MACKENZIE and, as a substitute, FRASER, but, although the Government respected these names and hoped some day to apply them to other ships, [8] they were empathic in stating their preference at that time for VANCOUVER. At Alliford Bay, the site of a proposed seaplane base received particular attention. A call was paid to Alert Bay from which, the ships separating, VANCOUVER patrolled southward to the Straits of Georgia, to Tribune Bay on Hornby Island in the Straits, Vancouver and Ioco, and the town of White Rock on Semiahmoo Bay. Still imagery of HMCS Vancouver’s operations in the Mediterranean Sea is available in the Task Force Vancouver photo gallery at www.combatcamera.forces.gc.ca, More information on HMCS Vancouver’s mission in the Mediterranean Sea is available at: http://www.cefcom-comfec.forces.gc.ca/pa-ap/ops/tfv-fov/index-eng.asp, National Defence and the Canadian Armed Forces Processes. We had six Packards at our disposal, each complete with uniformed chauffeur. [74]. J.S. Halifax is the lead ship in her class which is the name for the Canadian Patrol Frigate Project. There was a high trestle pier about 350 feet long and the ships came to anchor about a mile from it. SKEENA, after visiting Central American ports, arrived back at base on 24 March. A scow load of approximately 350 tons of ship plates was then awaiting a ship which was due to take it to Japan. He had luncheon in CHAMPLAIN and then inspected the ships’ companies drawn up on the jetty. On the 2nd, she steamed north to Grenville Channel and Lowe Inlet. HMCS Calgary (FFH 335) is a Halifax-classfrigate that has served in the Canadian Forces since 1995. Back in Esquimalt the next day, she proceeded to Yarrows shipyard and was hauled up on the slip immediately. On this patrol the ship steamed up the Straits of Georgia to Oyster Bay and then into Queen Charlotte Sound where she called at Safety Cove and Namu Harbour. [62], The next day, VANCOUVER secured alongside SKEENA and was given 82 tons of oil fuel. They were able to report that the rebellion had been put down. Particular pains were therefore taken to ensure the HMC ships avoided the exercise area as far as possible and the authorities were kept fully informed of the proposed movements of the Canadian ships. The second-in-command was relieved of this duties after he was found guilty of misconduct for his actions in disabling the smoke and heat detectors in the ship’s wardroom so he could smoke. [97]. On the 16th, she patrolled toward Skidegate, but was forced back by the weather to Safety Cove. Recreational opportunities ashore there and elsewhere in the British West Indies were poor for the ratings, although there was plenty of entertainment for the officers. She then returned to Elk Bay where she anchored awaiting slack water at Seymour Narrows. On the following day, she left Esquimalt to proceed to the Atlantic Ocean to join CHAMPLAIN in a training cruise in the Caribbean. When she arrived in the bay, a Norwegian whaler, the Hanka, was there, but it weighed anchor and left thirty-five minutes later. The next day she steamed into Queen Charlotte Sound. [43] There, on the 9th, VANCOUVER had to send away her seaboat’s crew when a sailing craft capsized and threw its five occupants into the water. They were accommodated in officers’ cabins and remained in the ship until the 30th. It had been found that there were great advantages for the ships in working together. In the latter place, there had been outbreaks at the penitentiary and the local officials, while not anticipating further trouble, were glad to see the ships. Nothing, however, came of the threatened attack. HM Cruiser Durban was met in the latter port and VANCOUVER went out with her for 1-inch aiming rifle practice.[25]. After leaving Esquimalt, the destroyers ran into heavy seas and had to reduce speed to 10 knots. 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