Your weekly national and international naval news for the week of April 19th, 2024 Edition: 561 HMCS Burrard Quote: “Former President Trump has made it very clear that he admires Vladimir Putin…He continues to really extol him, despite all of the evidence to the [contrary] for what his view should be here, that Putin is an avowed enemy at this particular point to the United States.”  25 February 2024, Fiona Hill, The Hill Rod Hughes: Editor NAC News rhughes@shaw.ca  (Comments welcome to help improve this service.)  Links to keep in touch with the NAC and RCN can be found at ..read more

Your weekly national and international naval news for the week of April 12th, 2024 Edition: 560 Quote: “There are deep disagreements between Biden and Netanyahu and there is a clear change of policy…There are always politics at play, but these differences are not purely politically driven.” 26 March 2024, Natan Sachs, and “When there is no accountability and no consequences, what’s the incentive for the Israeli government not to do what it’s doing?” 5 April 2024, Shibley Telhami, both quotes are from The New York Times Rod Hughes: Editor NAC News rhughes@shaw.ca  (Comments welcome to help ..read more

Your weekly national and international naval news for the week of April 5th, 2024 Edition: 559 Quote: “As a feat of military seamanship the voyage of the Wolf was so singular as to justify Admiral Holzendorff’s claim it would never be repeated.  Karl Nerger kept his ship at sea for 444 days and travelled more than 64,000 miles in one unbroken voyage, equivalent to nearly three circumnavigations of the earth, without pulling into any port.  He traversed three of the four major oceans and evaded the combined navies of Britain, France, Japan, Australia, and the United States, while carr ..read more

Your weekly national and international naval news for the week of March 22nd, 2024 Edition: 557  Quote: “Ladies and gentlemen, the times we are in are most consequential, and I fear that many Canadians do not fully understand just how dangerous the world has become — that they take for granted the peace and prosperity derived from our rules-based international order,” he warned. “For Canada, our competitive advantage is being part of a group of like-minded or like-minded enough allies, partners and friends who together can collectively deter aggression, imperialism, expansionism, to remai ..read more

Your weekly national and international naval news for the week of March 15th, 2024 Edition: 556 Quote: “A strong and successful Alliance depends on the support and understanding of its citizens.  NATO pursues this through tailored communications and engagement with a wide range of international media and key opinion formers, through digital outreach on multiple platforms, and through a clear and consistent brand identity. As well as explaining to citizens what NATO is and does, NATO also works to counter Foreign Information Manipulation and Interference, including disinformation.  NA ..read more

Your weekly national and international naval news for the week of March 8th, 2024 Edition: 555 CFAV Tillicum (Editor – more to navies than just warships) Quote:  “ To Prime Minister Lloyd George, it was simply unthinkable that the British public should know about the realities of war. “if the people really knew, the war would be stopped tomorrow”, he told the editor of the Manchester Guardian privately in December 1917.  But of course they don’t – and can’t – know.  The correspondence don’t write and the censorship would not pass the truth.”  Censorship and propaganda worke ..read more

Your weekly national and international naval news for the week of March 1st, 2024 Edition: 554   Women in the RCN – An Incredible Legacy Quote:  “The casualty numbers were staggering.  Of 393 U.S. soldiers on board the two cutters, 183 died and 157 were wounded.  There were 113 Royal Navy dead and 86 wounded as well as five U.S. dead and seven wounded.  The casualty rate was 90 per cent – about double the Charge of the Light Brigade in the Crimea 88 years earlier.”  The Bravest Canadian, pg. 103, Sam McBride, Granville Island Publishing, 2012 (Editor -follow ..read more

Your weekly national and international naval news for the week of February 23rd, 2024 Edition: 553   HMCS Dominion/HMCS Niobe Quote: “…the Grand Trunk Railroad’s plans to establish a major new Canadian port derailed.  The biggest blow was the drowning of Charles Melville Hayes, the powerful President of the Grand Truck Railroad and champion of Prince Ruppert port development, when RMS Titanic sank in April 1912.  The Bravest Canadian, pg. 20, Sam McBride, Granville Island Publishing, 2012 Rod Hughes: Editor NAC News rhughes@shaw.ca  (Comments welcome to help improve th ..read more

Your weekly national and international naval news for the week of February 16th, 2024 ­Edition: 552   Quote: “In January 1905 at age 15, Fritz [Frederic Thornton Peters, VC] commenced service with the Royal Navy.  His parents hoped he would be stationed close to home at Esquimalt for a five-year term, as was common for cadets in the past.  But the navy closed its Pacific Station in March 1905 because Britain was marshalling resources to home waters in response to the rising threat of Germany.  Bertha later said Fritz would have joined the Royal Canadian Navy if it had ..read more

Your weekly national and international naval news for the week of February 9th, 2024 Edition: 551   Quote: “It benefits [Russia] for everyone to think that there’s a back channel…because it scares the hell out of the Ukrainians.  The Russians want us to create this idea that…everything depends on the U.S. so no one or nothing else plays a role.  It’s a classic Russian play.”  26 January 2024, Fiona Hill, Bloomberg Rod Hughes: Editor NAC News rhughes@shaw.ca  (Comments welcome to help improve this service.)  Links to keep in touch with the NAC and RCN can ..read more