by Blair Shaw EMLog MInsTA CMILT MSOE | Dec 28, 2021 | History Article
In the beginning Sitting in a cold windswept harbour on the east coast of Canada is one of the most under rated and over looked and very often under appreciated ships ever to go to sea. Churchill called them Cheap and Nasty, a phrase we usually...
by Blair Shaw EMLog MInsTA CMILT MSOE | Jul 19, 2021 | History Article, News
NOTE: The opinions and writings in this article are the authors own and do not necessarily reflect the opinions of the Canadian government or armed forces. The Canadians have one of the longest and most inhospitable coast lines in the world, this makes policing the...
by Blair Shaw EMLog MInsTA CMILT MSOE | Jun 21, 2021 | History Article
Hotel class With the successful operation of the worlds first dedicated ballistic missile submarine B67 known as project AV611 (NATO Zulu IV) in 1955 the race was on between the USA and the Soviet Union to do more.The United States started to deploy the Regulus...
by Blair Shaw EMLog MInsTA CMILT MSOE | May 23, 2021 | History Article
Project 641B Som the Catfish With the extraordinarily successful 1950’s designed second generation conventional submarines of the project 641 Foxtrot class still in full production the hunt for a successor submarine began. Derived from the basic layout of the original...
by Blair Shaw EMLog MInsTA CMILT MSOE | Apr 18, 2021 | History Article
In the beginning Designed in the 1970’s along side the more numerous Project 667B BD BDR BDRM NATO Delta I II III IV boats, the Project 941 Akula NATO codenamed Typhoon was a radical departure from anything that we have seen before or since. In nearly every design...
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