Recap of the Sunday Information Session from September of 2016.

1. WELCOME TO THE
HMCS VANCOUVER Family Brief
18 Sept 2016

2. Cdr Clive Butler
Commanding Officer
HMCS Vancouver

3. 14 September 2016 was
Halfway Day for HMCS
VANCOUVER:
Halfway done the trip,
halfway around the world,
and halfway home!
Halfway Day

4. Esquimalt, BC
Departed: 13 June
Pearl Harbor, Hawaii
Guam
Darwin, AUS
Directed
Workups in the
SOCAL area
RIMPAC
BILATEX
Crossing the Line
Ex Kakadu
Where We’ve Been

5. Goodbye Pearl Harbor
5

6. Transit to Guam
Training
6

7. More Training
7

8. And more Training
8

9. VAN Gets Fit
9

10. SwimEX – Marianas Trench
10

11. SwimEX
11

12. Banyan
12

13. Welcome to Guam
13

14. Guam
14

15. 15

16. BILATEX
16

17. Crossing the Line
17

18. Crossing the Line
18

19. RAS HMAS Success
19

20. Darwin
20

21. Darwin Multi-Nation Sports Day
21

22. Sports Day
22

23. Darwin Divisions
23

24. Awards
24

25. Medals
25

26. Medals
26

27. Promotions
27

28. Promotions
28

29. 1.5 tons of
mail
received in
Crete!
Interesting Facts!We have steamed over
15,000 nm on Westploy
so far, and over 35,000
nm since January!
In the old days,
sailors would get a
swallow tattoo for
every 5000 nm they
sailed—that’s 3
swallow tattoos
worth!

30. 30
We ate what?!?
Ketchup: 300 Bottles
Eggs: 51, 300
Bacon: 71,250 Slices
Peanut Butter: 285 Jars
Cheese Whiz: 48 Jars
POP: 13, 272 Cans

31. More fun facts!
VANCOUVER has
consumed 1,853,050
litres of fuel
Blackfish 12, our
Sea King
helicopter, has
flown over 233
flight hours in 87
sorties
And…58 people
have celebrated a
birthday since
we’ve been gone!
Biggest Loser
participants have
collectively lost 33 lbs
so far