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The facility has been historically used as a 'gun park' and a gun maintenance facility for the Navy. The amount of oil spilled in that ground was HUGE. The reason they finally paved the parking lot in the upper base area was to reduce the leaching of that oil into the harbour.

We also need to decide if it's a restricted or a prohibited machete, or if it might be an antique and not subject to regulation. If it's an antique, ie, pre-1897, then it's not actually a Machete, and thus is unregulated. If it has a classic wooden handle and is over 18.5 inches in length...

I thank you for that photo. I've been looking for a colour image showing the Bonnie's catwalks/walkways for painting purposes for the model I'm building. The "Bonnie" book by Snowie shows those catwalks as being a red shade in the colour plates included. Now I'm thinking the right colour is...

I'll observe that a few years ago, the onboard CSE types as NE Tech and NW Techs were very capable when it came to RAMP activities. The advent of W Eng has diminished the technical skills of the CSE world in a noticeable way. When I argued with a certain proponent of the W Eng program, I put...

Of note, one of the deployed ship ordered food supplies through HALIFAX whilst overseas. We had pallets of rice, tomato sauce, spices, etc that we shipped overseas. I did ask WTH...because that's normally stuff you'd have a ship's chandler order to have waiting on the jetty for you. I mean...

A buddy of mine Rob on one of the AOPS was growing his own tomato plants on the bridge wings - worked out OK from what I gather.

Former NET(A) here - the SONAR dome exists as a protective fairing for the HMS Transducer - which can be raised and lowered so that it's protected by the keel when in dangerous/shallow waters. The current SQS-510 uses the old SQS-505 Transducer set, which is based directly off the 502 as was...

The standard of skill in the RCN for small arms handling has been generally poor, and many of the Bosun trade are too opinionated to see the flaws they make. I was told once on the range that when I was done shooting, to make the weapon safe, I needed to close the ejection port cover, and set...

But Ottawa has Golden Palace Egg Rolls...

Shouldn't that be - sitting in a rotting CPF in the middle of the ocean...?

They also helped the RCAF... https://www.silverhawkauthor.com/post/canadian-warplanes-6-canadair-cl-13-sabre

https://www.warmuseum.ca/cwm/exhibitions/navy/print_description-e.aspx@source=search&section=4&h_number=4-A-13-i&img_file=e-19920085-1005.html

MH-60 enters the discussion...

The yards we 'stole' the steamers back from was up in Port Welland I think. The words I use in describing the work I've seen with my own eyes from ISI include: willful deliberate sabotage incompetence thievery stupidity laziness Having to lock unoccupied compartments so that ISI workers...

In the Navy, we used to call the flight decks the 'Green beach' (or Steel beach) and during downtime when folks would go up and work out or suntan up top, there was a rule - "No Grapes on the Beach". The only folks who broke this on a regular basis by wearing speedos were almost universally...

Keeping the skill, maintaining the capability, and operating the ship have been worth it. If we had a 6-10 year gap in the capability, we would have seen ourselves trying to rebuild the capability from scratch, which would have cost us far more than the price we've paid. Is Asterix all that...

Was that the yank who got caught on pedo stuff and jumped bail to join the Russian Army?

I was one of the few in the meal line during this storm.

I got 'seasick' 3 times...twice was a Monday morning sailing case of brown bottle flu after way too much fun in foreign port, the 3rd time was the night on the Gatineau that I discovered I was slightly lactose intolerant...when I mixed milk, raisin bran and Sea State 6-7. After that, I...