RSSAuthor Archive for Lookout Production

The Lookout Newspaper can trace its history back to April 1943 when CFB Esquimalt’s first newspaper was published. Since then, Lookout has grown into the award winning source for Pacific Navy News. Leading the way towards interactive social media reach, we are a community resource newspaper growing a world wide audience.

Victoria Colonist report of Oct. 17, 1939 listing Midshipman Peter Piddington as missing. Photo: Paul Seguna

L’histoire de deux familles liées par une épée navale

Capc (ret) Paul Seguna, CD, Musée naval et militaire de la BFC Esquimalt  —  Cette année, la date de la fête de l’action de grâce a revêtu une importance particulière en reliant l’histoire de deux familles de l’île de Vancouver. Le 14 octobre 1939, un peu plus d’un mois après le début de la Seconde Guerre […]

Victoria Colonist report of Oct. 17, 1939 listing Midshipman Peter Piddington as missing. Photo: Paul Seguna

A Tale of Two Families Linked by a Naval Sword

LCdr (Ret’d) Paul Seguna, CD, CFB Esquimalt Naval & Military Museum  —  The date of the Thanksgiving holiday this year held a special significance in linking the histories of two Vancouver Island families. On Oct. 14, 1939, just over a month after the outbreak of the Second World War, the battleship HMS Royal Oak suddenly sank […]

Group photo of HMCS Regina’s Naval Electronic Sensor Operators and supervising Officer, taken next to one of the ship’s Harpoon missile launchers off the coast of California.

Les Bulldogs au loin ! Mission réussie pour le NCSM Regina

Ens 2 Simon Gonsalves, Affaires publiques FMAR(P)  —  Sous le ciel radieux de la Californie du Sud, les marins du Navire canadien de Sa Majesté (NCSM) Regina ont participé à l’exercice de ciblage interarmées sur le littoral 2024 (JoLTEX 24). Au cours de cet entraînement, l’équipage a eu la rare occasion de lancer deux missiles Harpoon […]