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.

Members of FMF Cape Breton’s Surface Weapons Work Centre, Shop 162A, gather for a group photograph in front of the quick-firing 12-pounder gun located at Black Rock Naval Battery in HMC Dockyard. Photo: Peter Mallett/Lookout Newspaper

Les magasins de la FMF ont fait leur marque pour la salve royale de 21 coups de canon

Peter Mallett, Rédacteur en chef — Perché au sommet d’une falaise de la batterie navale de Black Rock, un équipage de neuf canons de l’École navale (Pacifique) a tiré la traditionnelle salve de 21 coups de canon avec une précision d’expert. Le tonnerre a résonné dans le […]

Members of FMF Cape Breton’s Surface Weapons Work Centre, Shop 162A, gather for a group photograph in front of the quick-firing 12-pounder gun located at Black Rock Naval Battery in HMC Dockyard. Photo: Peter Mallett/Lookout Newspaper

FMF shops hit their mark for royal 21-gun salute

Peter Mallett, Staff Writer  —  Perched atop a bluff at Black Rock Naval Battery, a nine-member gun crew of Naval Fleet School (Pacific) fired off the traditional 21-gun salute with expert precision. The thunderous roar echoed across the Esquimalt Harbour for Princess Anne’s visit last month. The five-pound blank casing shells detonated from the barrels of three Quick-Firing 12-pounder, 12 […]

Members of HMCS Calgary row ashore Commander Jeremy Samson (above), their outgoing Commanding Officer. Photos: Corporal Tristan Walach, MARPAC Imaging Services.

Passation de commandement du NCSM Calgary

NCdt Shelby Andrews, NCSM Calgary  —  Le 13 mai, les officiers et l’équipage du NCSM Calgary se sont rassemblés au mess des chefs et des premiers maîtres pour la cérémonie de passation de commandement, au cours de laquelle le Commodore (Cmdre) David Mazur a présidé le transfert de commandement du Capitaine de frégate (Cdr) Jeremy Samson, […]