Navy destroyer, submarine dock in Vancouver

Totally checking htem out tomorrow. There's also a USN missle cruiser on the other side of Burrard inlet open to tours as well.,

Scope out an MCDV if you can. Old stomping ground!

Mcvd?

KINGSTON class mine countermeasures ship

Nice "boat".

Put it in 8 meters seas and it feels like a 'tub'...

Ah. Ill try and get a pic for you. Hopefully it won't rain too much in Van tomorrow.

Put it in 8 meters seas and it feels like a 'tub'...

I don't doubt it! How do you think its seakeeping would compare to a WWII Flower-class corvette (possibly the best of its kind in those days)?

Put it in 8 meters seas and it feels like a 'tub'...

I don't doubt it! How do you think its seakeeping would compare to a WWII Flower-class corvette (possibly the best of its kind in those days)?

KINGSTONS have mostly flat bottoms for coastal ops (though they don't stay coastal at all) so they don't take the seas well at all. I bet a corvette handled better.

Apparently they were a hell of a ride in the North Atlantic, and they were very "wet".

Apparently they were a hell of a ride in the North Atlantic, and they were very "wet".

I've seen some of the pics from buddies out east. These guys are pretty damned wet as well.

We bent one out here once on a rogue wave. I went down to look at the damage when it got back - hadn't seen big I beams bent like that before. expensive to fix.

Any of these look familiar Gunnair?

I visited the HMCS Algonquin a few times, but not the one visiting Vancouver... the one I was on was decommissioned in 1970 and was actually one of the warships providing naval gunfire support to the D-Day landings on Juno Beach.

ORCAs, KINGSTONs and USS Lake Champlain! Sailed with them all. he Lake Champlain was our host ship in Portland one summer and I had their Command Master Chief over for whisky and cigars on our sweep deck. Grand way to spend an evening.