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Type 45s are electric drive with generator power coming from an assortment of engines including gas turbines. Gas turbines provide immediate high power which a diesel can't maintain when the ship increases speed rapidly above intermediate power levels or at high speed. As for slippage-could be...

Once completed the SLP (Old CWO=CPO1 qual) a Navy CPO1 DOES receive a warrant. Posting as a Cox'n is irrelevant and is actually a core CPO1 position....same as a CM, Occ Mgr, Unit Chief, School Chief, etc.

For what it is worth, I was called a "baby killer" once in 33 years...at the airport in Victoria BC. (And that was about 5-6 years ago) I too married a local girl from Ketch Harbour just outside of Halifax...whose father was a Signalman in he Navy and whose mother was a PS employee with the...

Sometimes a simple analogy makes things clear and a conversation at the NTO Mess Dinner the other night in Halifax made it clear to many within earshot. You can pay the garage down the road $45 every time you want your oil changed in your car OR you can spend a couple hundred dollars on a...

Never thought of that but it is possible. When the corvette Charlottetown (K244) was sunk in Sep 42, a River class frigate (twin screwed corvette?)commissioned in 1944 not only bore the old name but the original pennant as well (K244). BTW, Colin is VERY WELL versed on this stuff and is part of...

Okay but make sure he knows that the 'boiler' on the frigates are little more than glorified hot water heaters. He will not be using any entropy extrapolating equations nor exercising all that thermodynamics he may have learned...not on the steam generators anyway.

A combination of the two might be...Nanasivik Naval Facility!

Historically, this is not 100% true. Many of the STL (and follow on classes) were in fairly good shape mechanically as well as structurally. It was not cost effective however to rebuild from scratch and new combat system. I read an article a couple years ago by the current head honcho at Irving...

I can't believe this thread is still alive. Can we let it die a peaceful death....

I remember years ago a fellow stoker used to bring his little 14' aluminum boat with a 20hp Evinrude on it to Nipigon from Eastern Passage. When the Coxn told him he wasn't allowed to do that, he asked the Coxn "Show me where it says that". In those days though, you didn't need to see rules; If...

Careful of the title you used: "Paid off May 01 for the 280s"a ATHABASKAN is alive and well and the plan is to keep her in service as a NR platform as per the original divestment plan. Also, for anyone attending this event, a great way to kick off the day would be to attend the CFL Pancake...

Actually, we did...sort of. The first 10 Canadian built corvettes were actully built for the Royal Navy and were commissioned as such. When their Canadian crews delivered them to England, they were handed right back as the RN was short on man power to crew them. Hence HMC Ships Windflower...

And the aggressor there is not an uneducated, undomesticated extremist.

All the interest here and around the Fleet but a bit of a downer regarding applicants. That said, for some reason, the process is a tad cumbersome with one electronic file to be submitted to one place and a hard copy to another. I am trying to 'hand' push a last minute applicant through right...

Read about 4 posts back: RegF: Sea Element/Navy MOS ResF:  All NAV RES occupations NCMs:  LS to MS NCOs: PO2 – PO1 Officers: Lt(N) ATR

Just finished "The Taliban don't wave" I would like some insight not so much on Capt Semreau himself but the method he uses for telling the stories from some who were there and may be willing to comment.

Here's the DIN link: http://nshq-qgemm.mil.ca/dnavp-dperm/dnavp2-dperm2/ssi-ism/default-eng.asp Though some of the data there may seem dated, the database is good. As well, the contact name seems to be current.

It was explained recently at a Command brief in Halifax that it is so newer folks can get something on their uniform early in their career although the 'outside the institution' reasoning could be a secondary. And yes, the number was 180 and no, it had nothing specifically to do with MARS...

I thought the answer would be easy by saying that if the 'gadget' you are working on was made in the U.S., assume imperial and if Europe, assume metric but I would be all wrong. As an example, the General Electric LM 2500 gas turbine (Propulsion engine in HAL class) measures stage turbine...

Are you saying VIC or CHI is in drydock?