New Canadian Shipbuilding Strategy

[Sub Standard]

Let’s say those numbers bear out.
Can you see the need for a 3rd operational RCN facility besides Halifax and Esquimalt?

At the RCN Command Team Training in Oct, CRCN talked about a possible new naval base in eastern Quebec. possibly Rimouski or Sept-Ilses.

 

[Halifax Tar]

At the RCN Command Team Training in Oct, CRCN talked about a possible new naval base in eastern Quebec. possibly Rimouski or Sept-Ilses.

I think Quebec is a good choice.

 

[Stoker]

If I was to create three naval stations then I would consider.

• St. John’s
• Prince Rupert
• Québec City / Lévis
  
  After which I would consider
• Iqaluit
• Churchill

 

[dapaterson]

RCN hard sea trades are under represented among Francophones. A base in QC where Francos and their families can live on French should help close that gap.

 

[Halifax Tar]

RCN hard sea trades are under represented among Francophones. A base in QC where Francos and their families can live on French should help close that gap.

You were reading my mind.

 

[Colin Parkinson]

Prince Rupert has some frontage where the RCN could build a dock. However the land is only a couple of hundred metres wide, has a active rail line through it and is heavily contaminated. CN will be happy to sell/lease at heavy price no doubt.

There was a ammunition resupply site at Port Edwards/Watson Island in WWII, now a propane terminal. The entrance is narrow but deep enough. The best place is on the same island as the airport, there be enough room for a couple of ships, small support base and some ammunition bunkers.

All bunkering at PR is done either from barge or truck. There is one small fuel station for smaller vessels.