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That is exactly what Fraser, St Laurent, Assiniboine, Skeena, and Margaree looked like.
CH-124 Sea King Historical Thread
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I've never tried on here, let's see if it accepts it. I scanned it yesterday and rotated and cropped it last night. I was talking to the curator this morning about where the original might be to get a color scan.
As was stated by FSTO, given this is a 1961 drawing, it's pretty close to what the St Laurents looked like:
HMCS Laurent at Canada.ca
For those that are so inclined, the story of the St Laurent class, the fact that the Restigouces (all 7) were also supposed to be helo converted (but money got in the way), what the MacKenzies originally were supposed to be (which informed, eventually, the 280s), and how early the Navy realized that the carrier was probably not supportable in the long run (mid to late '50s), is interesting.
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I went down this rabbit hole because I was trying to relocated the early '60s requirement for the Sea King. As always, when you open up an archival banker's box or two you see distractions. In this case, it was trhe story of how the decision to acquire the Sea King came about.
Luckily, when I spoke to Christine, the curator, she pointed out someone had already done the work:
It's much more of an academic treatment than a lot of the other works, with proper primary source references. As a matter of fact, the whole section on this in our archive is from his personnal records, as he unfortunately died in 2008 a couple of years after finishing this work.
Luckily, when I spoke to Christine, the curator, she pointed out someone had already done the work:
It's much more of an academic treatment than a lot of the other works, with proper primary source references. As a matter of fact, the whole section on this in our archive is from his personnal records, as he unfortunately died in 2008 a couple of years after finishing this work.
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