A4 - Wednesday, March 7, 1984 - North Shore News

strictly personal

The first involves a per-
sonal experience. I was chug-
ging up the Fraser River in
my beloved 50-year-old con-
verted police boat, the
Astral, a few years ago, when
the engine conked out.

The marine situation
wasn’t promising, since the
tide was ebbing rapidly and
there weren’t many boats
around to give me a tow.

And then — ta ra! — along
came the S.S. Master, an
85-foot tug that was a good
ten years older than my own
vessel. Same vintage. I didn’t
realize then that I was being
rescued by the only surviving
log-towing tug on the Coast
that still had her original
steam engine.

The Master’s a piece of
priceless B.C. history, that
has been kept afloat against
the ravages of rot, vandalism
and apathy by a group called
the SS Master Society. Saving
these classic old vessels is an
expensive business, as I can
testify. But something very
well worth doing.

With a bit of help from her
friends and admirers, the

by Bob Hunter

ERE ARE TWO SHIPS that I owe favors _
to; both of which need help.

Master should be steaming
around the Gulf in perfect
condition this summer, br-
inging wonderment, as they
say, to the young and lumps
to the throats of old salts.

Anyone wishing to help
perserve the Master can send
a donation to P.O. Box
80743, South Burnaby, B.C.,
VSH 3Y1. Okay, Master, are
we even now?

The other ship in need in-
volves a less personal ex-
perience, i.e., the Second
World War.

The ship in question is the
HMCS Sackville, the only re-
maining Canadian corvette
out of a fleet that proved to
be the principal factor in the
defeat-of the Nazi U-boats, a
role that was absolutely vital
to the defence of the free
world.

The Sackville almost
vanished, along with the rest
of the fleet, due to a perverse
indifference on the part of
Canadians to what was
arguably our greatest
achievement as a nation.

Without the corvette navy,
the Battle of the North Adian-

NEW CENTRE

B.C. Transit

request here

AN APPLICATION by B.C. Transit for a siting
area in which to accommodate the Mackay Creek
Transit Centre located on Lloyd Avenue has finally
been received by the District of North Vancouver

council.

The transit centre would be
developed in two phases with
the first phase consisting of
the construction of a
maintenance and operations
building, with parking to ac-
commodate a total of 50
buses from West Vancouver,
and a smaller portion of the
North Vancouver bus fleet.

The second phase, which
deals with the expansion of
the building and the site to
accommodate the total flect
of 115 vehicles and, perhaps,
a maximum of 180 transit

vehicles, will be considered
on a separate application.
District staff has been
directed to prepare the
mecessary bylaw for Phase
One of the application.
However, the date for a
public hearing will not be set
until a landscape plan which
meets with the approval of
the Parks Department and
the Social planner has been
prepared, and until the ar-
chitect has addressed the

issue of the materials to be
used on the exterior of the
proposed centre.

tic might easily have been

Be TRtTHRAMEST

- Jest. At the-very least, the -9 4

convoys that kept Britain
alive during her darkest
hours would not have reach-
ed their destination.

The Germans picked the
U-boat as their weapon in the
duel for ocean supremacy. As
a result, it was the anti-
submarine forces of the
Allies, not their battle fleets,
which found themselves on
the front line in the Atlantic.

The German strategy
might have succeeded in giv-
ing them command of the sea
except for the fortuitous Ad-
miralty decision to built an
escort vessel based on the
design for a whaling ship.
The result was a fast, effi-
cient craft that could turn on
a dime.

The U-boats became the
*‘whales’’ in this hew kind of
hunt. And while the Germans
scored initial successes with
their underwater hit-and-run
tactics, the corvettes proved
themselves capable of turning
in a circle more tightly than
the submarines themselves.
They were the only Allied
vessels that could thus out
manoeuvre a U-boat in a
duel.

The corvettes were amaz-
ingly versatile. They survived
in seas that swamped huge
merchant vessels and reduced
destroyers to water-logged
hulks. They could be used for

anything from minesweeping
to anti-aircraft protection.

For anybody interested in
this triumphant moment in

- our history, I recommend a

book called The Corvette
Navy, by James B. Lamb. He
brings the conflict so vividly
to life it makes your hair
stand on end.

The Canadian Naval Cor-
vette Trust has taken on the
task of preserving and restor-
ing the HMCS Sackville.
They, too, can use all the
help they can get. Donations
can be sent to Suite #601,
P.O. Box 221, Commerce
Coun East, Toronto, Ont.,
MS5L 1E8.

The Sackville after all was
involved in a rescue opera-
tion, too.

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