Royal Canadian Navy

Yvon Lehoux holds the hull for a model of the frigate Algonquin (DDG 283). Lehoux is building a detailed model of the ship, one on which he served, after getting blueprints from the Canadian Naval Museum. (Photo submitted: Yvon Lehoux)

Navy vet floats more ships

Yvon Lehoux builds finely detailed models of Canadian warships

 

A senior defence official says Canadian taxpayers are on the hook when it comes to fixing at least two of the Royal Canadian Navy’s new Arctic patrol vessels. Defence Department deputy minister Bill Matthews says that is because the one-year warranty on those two ships has expired. Matthews and Minister of National Defence Anita Anand arrive to appear before the Standing Committee on National Defence in Ottawa on Tuesday, Dec. 13, 2022. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Justin Tang

Ottawa will pay for repairs to Navy’s new Arctic ships due to expired warranty

Preliminary reports have identified issues with the ships’ engine cooling and drinking water systems

 

Yvon Lehoux holds a model of the HMCS Thetford Mines, a ship he built by hand. (Photo: Malin Jordan)

Labour of Love: Cloverdale’s Yvon Lehoux builds replicas of Canadian warships

Lehoux has built two model ships so far, plans for at least three more

 

HMCS Yellowknife sails in the Pacific Ocean on April 11, 2019. Crews aboard helped in an 800-kilogram cocaine bust in the eastern Pacific Ocean on March 6. (Courtesy of navy Capt. Annie Morin)

B.C. military helps scuttle ship carrying more than 1,700 pounds of cocaine

HMCS Yellowknife working with U.S. Coast Guard on security concerns in eastern Pacific Ocean

HMCS Yellowknife sails in the Pacific Ocean on April 11, 2019. Crews aboard helped in an 800-kilogram cocaine bust in the eastern Pacific Ocean on March 6. (Courtesy of navy Capt. Annie Morin)
An officer boards HMCS Harry DeWolf after docking at Ogden Point. Oct. 3. (Kiernan Green/News Staff)

Naval ship docks in Victoria during historic circumnavigation of North America

HMCS Harry DeWolf left Halifax, visited Nunavut, bound for the Panama in journey not done since 1954

An officer boards HMCS Harry DeWolf after docking at Ogden Point. Oct. 3. (Kiernan Green/News Staff)
Ronald Bath, right, was awarded the National Order of the Legion of Honour on Monday afternoon. (Colleen Flanagan-THE NEWS)

Maple Ridge veteran awarded France’s highest honour

Ronald Bath, 95, was presented with the National Order of the Legion of Honour medal on Monday

Ronald Bath, right, was awarded the National Order of the Legion of Honour on Monday afternoon. (Colleen Flanagan-THE NEWS)
HMCS Haida’s motor cutter, pictured, was used to rescue survivors of the Athabaskan on April 29, 1944. From left: Stoker William Cummins, Leading Seaman William MacLure and Able Seaman Jack Hannam. (Lt William Sclater / Canada Dept. of National Defence / Library and Archives Canada)

Surrey man served on the most ‘fightingest ship’ in the Canadian navy

Cliff Thitchener, 95, remembers life as a stoker aboard the HMCS Haida

HMCS Haida’s motor cutter, pictured, was used to rescue survivors of the Athabaskan on April 29, 1944. From left: Stoker William Cummins, Leading Seaman William MacLure and Able Seaman Jack Hannam. (Lt William Sclater / Canada Dept. of National Defence / Library and Archives Canada)
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