OPERATIONS & EXERCISES
International Operations
- Food aid, piracy and Canadian values
“There are a lot of blind people walking around here, they just don’t realize it,” said 16-year-old Edouard, who grew up on the streets of Dar es Salaam, Tanzania. These words struck home as HMCS Ville de Québec began her last trip from Mombasa, Kenya to Mogadishu, Somalia. For the 253 Canadian sailors, soldiers and airmen of my ship’s company, our assignment to support the World Food Programme (WFP) has been an eye-opening experience in a region that gets barely any visibility back home.
- HMCS St. John's completes mission in Haiti
HMCS St. John’s left Haiti in late September after nearly two weeks of hauling sacks of rice, corn-soya meal, bottled water and other World Food Programme aid supplies from Port-au-Prince to destinations in Haiti’s southwest peninsula. Between mid August and early September, four hurricanes laid waste to Haiti’s southern coast, leaving thousands of people homeless and cut off from help.
- Frigate deploys on anti-terrorism mission
HMCS Ville de Québec, with a crew of about 250 (including a CH-124 Sea King helicopter detachment), left her home port of Halifax on July 17 and will conduct operations in the Mediterranean Sea, Black Sea and Adriatic Sea as part of Operation SEXTANT...
- Canadian ships tow Yemeni dhow back to safety
GULF OF ADEN - HMCS Protecteur and HMCS Iroquois, operating off the coast of Somalia, provided assistance to a ship in distress on June 11. Dunia, a 30-foot dhow carrying 15 people, experienced serious mechanical problems leaving it unable to operate at sea and had been adrift for four days. A lookout in Protecteur, which was operating nearby as part of Combined Task Force (CTF) 150, discovered the vessel at the break of dawn.
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