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Volume 68, Issue 39, October 3, 2023
In this week’s edition of #LookoutNavyNews: NDWCC kickoff is a flipping success, HMCS Malahat exercises Freedom of the City, Career goals of former Raven take flight, RCN Digital Leadership, Terry Fox Run HMCS Ottawa. Read the full edition here: https://bit.ly/3F2FDfr
Dans l’édition de cette semaine de #LookoutNavyNews : Le coup d’envoi du CNDW est un franc succès, le NCSM Malahat exerce le droit de cité, les objectifs de carrière de l’ancien Raven prennent leur envol, le leadership numérique de la MRC, Terry Fox fait courir le NCSM Ottawa. Lisez l’édition complète ici : https://bit.ly/3F2FDfr
Submariners: underhanded, unfair, and damned un-English?
Few know the longstanding link between the submarine community and the Jolly Roger. As with most Royal Canadian Navy traditions, this one traces its origin to the British, more precisely, to comments made by the First Sea Lord, Admiral Sir Arthur Wilson. He referred to the advent of submarine warfare as ‘underhanded, unfair, and damned un-English’ and argued that enemy submariners should be hanged as pirates upon capture.
Great things ahead for RCN Sail
“We’ve known for a while the new boats were coming, but now that they’re being rigged in Vancouver, they are no longer just an idea: they’ve become something tangible,” said Lieutenant (Navy) (Lt(N)) Ellery Down, RCN Sail Program Coordinator, during a recent inspection of the two yet-to-be-named Bavaria C45 sailboats at a contractor facility on Granville Island.
