Nominees for a new RCN museum ship?
When I saw this today http://www.edinburghnews.scotsman.com/news/city-offered-first-refusal-to-buy-hms-edinburgh-1-3181685 it made me think of HMCS Star http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HMCS_StarI think...
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I'd prefer the money to go to upkeep of current Canadian museum ships. You recently lost one I believe (in the last 5 years or so), and RCMPV St. Roch was in dire need of funding to correct dry rot in...
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Like Haida, the funding comes from Parks Canada, not DND.
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The current gov't is looking to honour our military past (even while cutting funds for live veterans) so this might be a good time to look for funding.
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It's not the funding now that's the issue... its the funding 10, 20, 50 years down the line... see Battleship Texas & USS Olympia.
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bager1968 wrote:It's not the funding now that's the issue... its the funding 10, 20, 50 years down the line... see Battleship Texas & USS Olympia.Or USS Hartford, which sank at her moorings when...
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IcelofAngeln wrote:bager1968 wrote:It's not the funding now that's the issue... its the funding 10, 20, 50 years down the line... see Battleship Texas & USS Olympia.Or USS Hartford, which sank at...
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Texas will survive, because she's got Texas state funds behind her; the legislature may grumble, but they'll cough up the dough rather than lose the 'Flagship of the Texas Navy'. Olympia, OTOH, is...
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I am always surprised by the small numbers who view our current museum ships. The last time I was at HMCS Sackville, there were very few of us crawling over her, although the Halifax waterfront was...
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I believe that you may have found HMCS Sackville souvenirs in the gift shop in the nearby Maritime Museum of the Atlantic vpsoccer. You are correct however - not enough is done to promote the ship and...
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I tried to visit sackville in 2000 but she was in dry dock. I visited the museum though and enjoyed it. It was very moving to see artifacts from titanic.
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