This document provides a summary of HMCS Vancouver's activities from December 2016 to their return home. Some key points: - The ship visited ports in Vietnam, Australia, and New Zealand, conducting community outreach events and military exercises. - In Vietnam, sailors attended a reception and visited orphanages, painting rooms and playing with children. - The ship transited the Great Barrier Reef and hosted receptions in Brisbane. - Sailors participated in Remembrance Day in Auckland and an anti-submarine exercise with Australia and New Zealand. - The ship provided humanitarian assistance to an earthquake-stricken area in New Zealand, distributing supplies and repairing infrastructure. - Other

1. WELCOME TO THE
HMCS VANCOUVER Family Brief
4 Dec 2016

2. Singapore
Ho Chi Minh, Vietnam
Darwin, AUS Pago Pago,
American
Samoa
Auckland, NZ
Kaikoura/OP RENAISSANCE
Brisbane, AUS
Ex Kakadu
Where we’ve Been

3. Vietnam
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Most exotic port we have visited.
The Commodore and Fleet Chief
visited us to attend a Reception.
There was so much traffic in
this port. Because traffic is
so bad most people drive
scooters. There are about 3
million scooters in Ho Chi
Minh

4. Vietnam Reception
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Vietnam allowed us to have a
fun reception that was well
attended.
It also allowed the High
Commissioner to reach out to local
Vietnam residents and local business
to attend.

5. Outreach - Teenagers Village
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Vancouver attended a local
orphanage called
Teenagers Village. 20 – 25
members of Vancouver
played with children in the
orphanage for the day.

6. Teenagers Village - Painting
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Another 10
people
spent the
day
painting
the rooms
where the
children
sleep. This
allowed us
to build
Canada's
profile in
the area

7. Teenagers Village
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8. SOS Village Vietnam
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The CO and the COXN visited a local
village called SOS village. It’s place
where children are placed with
mothers who tend to the children from
the time they are placed in the
orphanage until they leave.
1 mother could be caring for
upwards of 10 children. Boomers
legacy a local Canada Navy fund
donated $5000 to the village and the
CO presented on behalf Boomers.

9. Rugby
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Our ships
rugby
team has
played all
over the
pacific.

10. Canada Sports Day
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On 22 Oct, Vancouver participated in the
CAF sports day. CAF encourages all
units to organize some form of sporting
event to promote sports and fitness.
This day was organized by our PSP staff
Nick Pyke.

11. Halloween
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Vancouver celebrated Halloween with
squash carving. We couldn’t get
pumpkins in the area so we carved
squashes. We had a department wide
carving contest and the Engineering
department won

12. Brisbane
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On our transit from Darwin to Brisbane,
Vancouver transited the Great Barrier Reef,
it was a difficult transit, but a great view.
We were able to get ships
company members in the
helicopter over the reef.
We did about 10 flights
that day, so many people
got the opportunity to see
the reef from the sky.

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14. Reception
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Vancouver
conducted another
river transit to reach
Brisbane and hosted
a reception.
Commander
MARPAC RADM
McDonald attend as
well as the High
Commissioner Mr.
Maddison, who is ex
Commander RCN
VADM Maddison.

15. Divisions
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RADM McDonald handed
out awards to deserving
sailors

16. Remembrance Day
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Vancouver
conducted a
Remembrance
Day ceremony
outside
Auckland
harbour.
Two NZ sailors
that sailed with
Vancouver
during Southploy
were able to visit
that day and
partake in the
ceremony

17. Ex Ngatahi
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We then moved to the
NZ operation area and
conducted OP Ngatahi.
It was an Anti-
Submarine exercise that
allowed us to work
with an Australian
Submarine and NZ
ships.
From the
pictures you can
see how the
weather is very
similar to
Vancouver
Island

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OP Renaissance
As we were
preparing to visit
Auckland for the
International
Naval Review, we
were asked by NZ
to assist with an
earthquake
affected area. We
then sailed with a
task group of 5
ships to the
effected area to
distribute supplies
and provided
assistance. We
arrived during a
massive storm,
making it difficult
to fly Helicopters.
Took about a day
before we could fly
and get ashore to
provide assistance.

19. OP Renaissance
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When the earthquake hit, mud slides
blocked roads, damaged water and sewer
lines and cut the town off from the rest of
NZ. Our sailors went ashore to hand out
food and water and go door to door to see
how the community was doing and offer
any assistance they needed.

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Sailors also fixed sewage
lines, distributed chemical
toilets and dug up
sewage/water lines so they
could be repaired.
7 Ships, 5 helicopters and
1000s of sailors assisted.

21. Wellington
We conducted a formation
entrance and anchorage into
Wellington harbor and were
visited by VADM Lloyd, NZ
High Commissioner and the
Deputy Prime Minister of NZ
to thank us for our assistance.

22. Auckland
Though we missed the
International Naval Review, we
conducted our own mini
review by conducting a
formation entry into Auckland.
You can see the ships company
in their dress uniforms as we
pulled in.

23. Pago Pago
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We didn’t end up making it to Fiji
so we went to Pago Pago for a brief
fuel stop.

24. Crossing The Line
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We were able to
conduct another
crossing the equator
line ceremony. This is
the 3rd ceremony
conducted by
Vancouver this year.

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26. Homecoming - Timings
• 7:30-8:30am Families gather at Chief and Petty
Officers Mess for ID Checks
– MFRC will have activities and refreshments at
C&POs
• 8:30am Buses start moving families to Dockyard
• 9:30am HMCS VANCOUVER passes Duntze
Head
• 10:00am Tied up alongside A Jetty
• First Kiss.

27. Signal Hill
Chief and
POs
Parking
(spaces
marked
with
PFC)

28. TIPS FOR HOMECOMING DAY
• Arrive early - allows time for parking, ID
checks and a light snack
• For ID checks remember picture ID for
those over the age of 13)
• Dress warm - it's colder than you think on
the jetty
• Bring strollers for the smaller children
• Communicate with your member about
who will be on the jetty
• NO PETS.

29. We have steamed over
34,000 nm on Westploy so
far, and over 50,000 nm
this year. Almost there!