SeaWaves Today in History October 15, 2008 1690 - A British fleet of 34 ships, carrying 3400 sailors and New England militia, drops anchor off Quebec in view of capturing the French town 1846 - USRC McLane ran aground while attempting to cross the bar of the River Alvarado during the Mexican War 1850 - Isaac Ebey is the first permanent US settler on Whidbey Island 1904 - The Russian Baltic Fleet set sail from Libava (Liepaya) to the Far East where it took part in the Battle of Tsushima in the Russo-Japanese War 1914 - The first convoy of Canadian troops enters Portsmouth at dawn. The men will soon be transported to Salisbury Plain for training and preparations to move to the Western Front 1915 - Minesweeper HNLMS M-1 laid down 1917 - Drifter HM CD 7 completed by Davie Shipbuilding & Repairing Co. Ltd, Lauzon PQ. 99t, 84x19.3x10ft, 9kts, 1-6pdr, engines-compound, 12in. & 24in dia by 16 in. stroke 1917 - Destroyer USS Cassin torpedoed by German submarine U-61 off coast of Ireland. In trying to save the ship, Gunner's Mate Osmond Kelly Ingram becomes first American sailor killed in World War I and later is awarded the Medal of Honor for his heroism. He becomes the first enlisted man to have a ship named for him, in 1919 1917 - Mata Hari, a Dutch dancer who had spied for the Germans, was executed by a firing squad outside Paris 1918 - Tug (ex-Dept of Fisheries) HMCS Becanoeur paid off 1918 - Destroyer USS Osmond Ingram laid down 1918 - Minesweeper USS Partridge launched 1919 - Destroyer HMS Sturdy commissioned 1923 - Submarine USS S-26 commissioned 1923 - Submarine HNLMS K XIII laid down 1927 - Destroyer FS Tramontaine commissioned 1935 - Light cruiser HMS Penelope launched 1935 - Destroyer USS Clark launched 1936 - Destroyer FS Epee laid down 1936 - Destroyer HMS Inglefield launched 1939 - U-37 sank SS Vermont 1939 - Armed merchant cruisers HMS Aurania, Ausonia & Cilicia commissioned 1940 - Mussolini orders the invasion of Greece even though he knows that Hitler strongly disapproves 1940 - Submarine HMS Rainbow sunk in collision/ramming with Italian merchantman Antonietta Costa 1940 - Submarine HMS Triad sunk by the gunfire of Italian submarine Enrico Toti 1940 - U-441 laid down 1940 - U-93 sank SS Hurunui in Convoy OA-228 1940 - U-138 damaged SS British Glory & sank SS Bonheur in Convoy OB-228 1940 - U-103 sank SS Thistlegarth in Convoy OB-227 1940 - Corvette HMS Orchis launched 1940 - Corvettes HMS Aster & Bergamot laid down 1940 - Minesweeper HMCS Outarde laid down North Vancouver BC 1941 - Most units of the Soviet Black Sea Fleet are now based at Sevastopol 1941 - USN's Task Unit 4.1.4 (Captain Hewlett Thebaud), comprising 4 US destroyers, is directed to proceed to SC 48's aid as the west-bound convoy it had been escorting, ON 24, is dispersed 1941 - Hozomi Ozaki, a Japanese author, journalist and spy for the Soviet Union under Richard Sorge, was arrested for treason. He was a member of a high-level, policy-planning brain trust that advised the Japanese Prime Minister and was in a position to pass on high-level secrets to Soviet spy Sorge. Ozaki was executed along with Sorge in 1944 1941 - Submarine HMS Torbay bombards the port of Apollonia 1941 - SS Vancouver Island 9,472 GRT, Canadian Merchantman, 15kts, ex-Weser (German) sunk in the North Atlantic at 53.37N, 025.37W, by U-558, OLtzS Günther Krech, Knights Cross, CO. There were no survivors from her crew of 65, which included 32 passengers & 8 DEMS gunners. 3 RCN DEMS gunners killed. Weser was captured 25 Sep 40 off the coast of Mexico by HMCS Prince Robert. She had been sailing independently when she was sunk. Her relatively high speed of over 15kts, made her a valuable blockade runner for the Germans, & was considered sufficient to rendered her invulnerable to submarine attack. U-558 was a medium-range Type VIIC U-boat built by Blohm & Voss, Hamburg. Commissioned 20 Feb 41. U-558 conducted 10 patrols & compiled a record of 20 ships sunk for a total of 101,696 tons & 2 ships damaged for a further 15,070 tons. U-558 was sunk 20 Jul 43 in the Bay of Biscay, NW of Cape Ortegal, Spain, in position 45.10N, 009.42W, by depth charges from a RAF 'Halifax' patrol a/c from 58 Sqn & a US Liberator patrol a/c from USAAF 19th Sqn. There were 5 survivors from her crew of 50 men, including the CO. Günther Krech began his naval career in April 1933. He served for 4 years in the German Luftwaffe & returned to the Kriegsmarine in Nov 39. His first patrols were in U-100, KptLt Schepke, CO. He left U-100 in Nov 40 in Feb 41 commissioned U-558. He ranked as the 29th highest scoring U-boat ace of the war. Günther Krech died on 03 Jun 2000 1941 - Corvette HMCS Louisburg arrived Halifax from builder Quebec City PQ 1941 - Patrol vessel HMCS Moolock 84x20ft, Built by Victoria Motor Boat & Repair Works, Ltd, Victoria. Launched, 1-mg, Fisherman's reserve, west coast, sold 1946 & renamed Western Girl I 1941 - Corvette HMCS Sudbury commissioned 1941 - Destroyer HMS Tyrian laid down 1941 - Tug HMCS Becanoeur ordered from Marine Industries Ltd, Sorel PQ. Ex-Dept of Transport tug, for conversion to gate vessel. Yard#85, Log - jn 231, completed 1942, Post WW.II sold Marine Industries Ltd, commercial, renamed Becanoeur #133954 1941 - U-270 & U-921 laid down 1941 - U-335, U-379 & U-599 launched 1941 - U-88 commissioned 1941 - At 0705hrs U-553 sighted convoy SC-48 and attacked an hour later, sinking SS Ila & SS Silvercedar. At 1024 the boat was forced away by an escort. During the next attempt at 1624hrs the escort HMCS Columbia attacked U-553 with six depth charges, but without result. Two hours later the Canadian escort attacked with a torpedo, but missed. More depth charges followed. In the night the boat lost the convoy when it changed course 1942 - During the night, Japanese heavy cruisers HIJMS Chokai & Kinugasa (Vice Admiral Mikawa Gunichi) bombard Henderson Field between 0147 until 0217 hours, covering the movement of six destroyers and eleven transports with 5,000 troops to Tassafaronga, Guadalcanal. More US aircraft are destroyed or damaged, more fuel is set afire and more facilities are destroyed on the airfield. Beginning at 0600 hours with a strafing by 4 Fighting Squadron Five (VF-5) F4F Wildcats, the Cactus Air Force mounts piecemeal but effective attacks against ships and newly landed Japanese troops and supplies. At 1030 hours, General Gieger finally organizes a planned attack of 12 SBD Dauntless dive bombers of Bombing Squadron Six (VB-6) and Marine Scout Bombing Squadron One Hundred Forty One (VMSB-141) plus other unidentified units; 8 F4F fighters of VF-5; 3 P-39s and a P-400 Airacobra fighters and 11 B-17 Flying Fortress bombers of the USAAF; and a USMC PBY Catalina, the personal "flag" aircraft of Brigadier General Roy S. Geiger, Commanding General 1st Marine Aircraft Wing (1st MAW). The PBY carries 2 torpedoes under its wings and after receiving radioed instructions on how to airdrop torpedoes, Marine Major Jack Cram attacks the IJN ships. These aircraft conduct a succession of attacks on the Japanese supply convoy off Tassafaronga undamaged by VS-3s strike yesterday. The B-17s damage transport SS Azumasan Maru which, along with merchant cargo ship SS Kyushu Maru, is run aground, where uncontrollable fires destroy both ships. Air attacks also sink SS Sasago Maru and damage destroyer HIJMS Samidare. Two of the transports pull out at 1200 hours and the others pull out during the afternoon under continued attacks of the Cactus Air Force, but the attacks continue with another damaged. As the two remaining transports approach to finish unloading, General Ito waves them off. A small USN resupply convoy consisting of the cargo ships USS Alchiba & Bellatirx, gunboat USS Jamestown, destroyers USS Meredith & Nicholas and tug USS Vireo, each towing a barge carrying barrels of gasoline and 250-pound (113.4 kg) bombs, was en route to Guadalcanal when spotted by Japanese aircraft. All ships but the tug USS Vireo and the destroyer USS Meredith beat a hasty retreat. Cautiously proceeding, the pair beat off a 2-plane Japanese attack before they received word that Japanese surface ships were in the area. Only then did they reverse course. At 1200 hours, USS Meredith ordered old, slow, and vulnerable USS Vireo abandoned and took off her crew. Meredith then stood off to torpedo the tug at 1215 hours so that she would not fall into enemy hands intact. Suddenly, 27 "Val" divebombers (Aichi D3A, Navy Type 99 Carrier Bombers) and Zeke fighters, from aircraft carrier HIJMS Zuikaku attack. Before Meredith can scuttle the tug with a torpedo, however, after shooting down 3 aircraft, the destroyer is overwhelmed and sunk in the ensuing air attack, by bombs and aerial torpedoes. Vireo and the two gasoline barges, however, drifted to leeward, untouched. One life raft, crammed with some of Meredith's survivors, succeeded in overhauling the derelict tug and the men gratefully scrambled aboard. The barges and the tug were later found, intact. When a salvage party boarded Vireo on 21 October, the ship was dead in the water with no lights, no steam, and no power. After abortive attempts to light fires under the boilers, using wood, the tug had to be taken under tow by destroyer USS Grayson. In company with Grayson and USS Gwin, Vireo arrived safely at Espiritu Santo on 23 October. Only 7 officers and 56 men from the Meredith survived the attack and the three ensuing days of exposure to the open sea and sharks until they were rescued. In the afternoon, the Hornet Air Group in the aircraft carrier USS Hornet, which is on station south of Guadalcanal but out of range of IJN aircraft, assumes responsibility for the air defense of Henderson Field while the Cactus Air Force reorganizes and repairs aircraft. By the end of the day, the Cactus Air Force is able to maintain air defense over Henderson Field and USS Hornet retires. A single Fifth Air Force B-17 attacks shipping near Treasury Islands during the day. At the end of the day, the U. S. Pacific Fleet commander Admiral Chester Nimitz calls the situation on Guadalcanal "critical" 1942 - In the Aleutians, US Eleventh Air Force B-26s hit a large cargo ship in Gertrude Cove, Kiska Island 1942 - In Australia, the USN's Submarine Base, Fremantle-Perth, is established 1942 - In the US, Headquarters and Headquarters Squadron Army Air Forces Antisubmarine Command is activated at New York NY, assigned directly to HQ USAAF. It takes over antisubmarine operations of the First Air Force's I Bomber Command, which is inactivated; most observation squadrons that have been flying ASW patrols cease and are inactivated 1942 - Frigate HMS Byard laid down 1942 - HMC ML 089 commissioned 1942 - Destroyer USS Young launched 1942 - Escort carrier HMS Activity commissioned 1942 - Light cruiser USS Denver commissioned 1942 - Minesweeper USS Speed commissioned 1942 - Destroyer USS Stanly commissioned 1942 - German U-Boat torpedoes cargo ship off Metis, Quebec 1942 - U-757 was forced to return to base from the North Atlantic due to damage in the port diesel engine 1942 - Destroyer USS Meredith lost near San Cristobal Island in the Solomons. While in the middle of escorting two cargo vessels, Japanese divebombers appeared from the carrier Shokaku. One direct hit exploded on deck and four more hits plus an aerial torpedo caused the ship to blow the ship apart, including her store of depth charges. She heeled over and sank in 20 minutes with the loss of 185 men 1942 - Soviet submarine SC-311 sunk by Finnish guard boats VÌV-13 and VÌV-15 near Porkkala 1942 - U-661 sunk North Atlantic, in position 53.42N, 35.56W, after being rammed by destroyer HMS Viscount. 44 dead (all hands lost) 1942 - U-864 laid down 1942 - U-232 launched 1942 - U-644 & U-760 commissioned 1942 - U-410 sank SS Newton Pine in Convoy ONS-136 1942 - U-129 sank SS Trafalgar 1943 - In the Pacific, Admiral Halsey issues orders for the invasion of Northern Solomons by Task Force 31 1943 - Target towing vessels ordered - HMCS Kirkwood, Atwood, Brentwood, Eastwood, Greenwood, Inglewood, Lakewood, Oakwood & Wildwood 1943 - Frigate HMS Pitcairn launched 1943 - Submarine HMS Vigorous launched 1943 - Frigates HMS Anguilla & Helmsdale commissioned 1943 - Minesweeper HMS Pickle commissioned 1943 - Destroyer escort USS Coolbaugh commissioned 1943 - Submarine USS Tang commissioned 1943 - Escort carrier USS Petrof Bay laid down 1943 - Frigate HMS Pitcairn launched 1943 - Submarine HMS Vigorous launched 1943 - Destroyer escort USS Underhill launched 1943 - Corvette HMCS Camrose completed forecastle extension refit Pictou NS 1943 - Corvette HMCS Halifax completed refit Liverpool NS 1943 - Submarine HMS L-27 commenced refit Sydney NS 1943 - Submarine USS Dorado lost to an American patrol craft from Guantanamo Bay or possibly lost to mines from U-214. Dorado was in transit from the New London submarine base to the Panama Canal 1943 - A man died of illness on U-488. [Maschinenmaat Karl Bergmann] 1943 - In the Mediterranean U-616 encountered the British submarine HMS Untiring, which fired three torpedoes without success 1943 - U-1405 laid down 1943 - U-369 commissioned 1943 - U-23 damaged TSC-486 Sovetskaja Rossija 1943 - U-371 damaged SS James Russell Lowell beyond repair in Convoy GUS-18 1943 - U-426 sank SS Essex Lance in Convoy ONS-20 1944 - USN Task Group 30.3 (Rear Admiral Laurance T. DuBose) is formed to cover the retirement of the crippled heavy cruiser USS Canberra and light cruiser USS Houston; an augmented Task Group 38.1 (Vice Admiral John S. McCain) provides cover. Task Groups 38.2 (Rear Admiral Gerald F. Bogan) and TG 38.3 (Rear Admiral Frederick C. Sherman) take up position to waylay Japanese fleet units that might try to attack the damaged ships. TG 38.4 (Rear Admiral Ralph E. Davison), meanwhile, attacks Japanese installations near Manila. Between 1015 and 1100 hours, F6F Hellcat pilots shoot down 47 Japanese fighters. The aircraft carrier USS Franklin is attacked by 3 enemy aircraft, one of which scores with a bomb that hits the after outboard corner of the deck edge elevator, killing 3 and wounding 22. Tokyo Rose announces the destruction of Admiral Halsey's Task Force 38 and Emperor Hirohito declares a victory holiday. A tongue-in-cheek Halsey message says all his sunken ships have been salvaged and are retiring toward the enemy 1944 - USS Tambor sinks a cargo ship at 29-43 N, 143-09 E 1944 - German light cruiser Leipzig was proceeding from Gotenhafen to Swinemunde to load a cargo of mines destined to counter a supposed Allied landing in the Skaggerak. Simultaneously the German heavy cruiser Prinz Eugen was steaming towards Gotenhafen to reammunition after bombardment operations against Russian forces. At 2005, 2.5 miles east of the Hela Peninsula, in dark and foggy conditions, Prinz Eugen rammed Leipzig amidships between the bridge superstructure and the funnel, nearly cutting her in half. Prinz Eugen was to return to service after emergency repairs on 19 November. The heavily damaged Leipzig was never fully repaired. She remained in dockyard hands until January 1945 when it was decided to use her as floating battery in the defense of Gotenhafen. After action against the Russians in March 1945, she escaped to surrender in Denmark 1944 - A Dutch submarine sinks a Japanese oceanographic research vessel off Surabaya, Java. The ship was the 200-ton oceanographic research vessel Kaiyo No. 2; there were actually six of these vessels all with the name Kaiyo and the suffix No. 1 through No. 6. The ships were sometimes called Kaiyo Maru No. n. The ship was probably involved in mapping operations 1944 - 2 USAAF B-17s make an unsuccessful APHRODITE attack on naval installations on Heligoland Island, Germany 1944 - Destroyer escort USS George M Campbell launched 1944 - Heavy cruiser USS Macon launched 1944 - USCGC Eastwind, supported by Southwind, captured the German trawler Externsteine in East Greenland, 800 miles south of North Pole off Shannon Island, after destroying Nazi radio station on Little Koldewey Island 1944 - U-365 set a weather reporting group ashore in South Spitsbergen in the Arctic 1944 - U-777 Sunk at 2002hrs near Wilhelmshaven, in position 53.51N, 08.10E, by British bombs during an air raid 1944 - U-481 sank Finnish freighters Dan, Endla & Maria 1945 - Pierre Laval, former Deputy Premier and later Premier of Vichy France was executed. The charge is "treason" or "plotting against the security of the state" or "conducting intelligence with the enemy" (depending on your source). Prior to his execution, he had attempted suicide with poison. The US newsmagazine Time had named him "Man of the Year" in 1931. Fleeing France, ahead of the advancing Allied Armies, for Germany, the Nazis assisted him in flying to Spain. Franco had Laval arrested and sent to Austria, where US forces arrested him. He was turned over to the new French government in July 1945 1945 - Frigate HMCS Montreal paid off Halifax NS 1945 - The former premier of Vichy France, Pierre Laval, was executed 1946 - Nazi war criminal Hermann Goering poisoned himself hours before he was to have been executed 1946 - Submarine HMS Artemis commissioned 1948 - First women officers on active duty sworn in as commissioned officers in regular Navy under Women's Service Integration Act of June 1948 by Secretary of the Navy John L. Sullivan - CAPT Joy B. Hancock, USN; LCDR Winifred R. Quick, USN; LCDR Anne King, USN; LCDR Frances L. Willoughby, MC, USN; LT Ellen Ford, SC, USN; LT Doris Cranmore, MSC, USN; LTJG Doris A. Defenderfer, USN; and LTJG Betty Rae Tennant, USN. Capt. Joy Bright Hancock was the leading woman in Navy service at that time. She had begun her Navy career as a female enlistee during WWI as one of the famed "Yeomanettes". Discharged postwar, she went to work as a civilian in the Navy Department, retained a strong interest in the concept of Navy women, and married a Navy officer later lost in a dirigible disaster. That connection kept her in the minds of admirals. With the outbreak of WWII, she volunteered again, and was soon commissioned and put in charge of a first group of new enlisted WAVES (Women Auxiliary Volunteers for Emergency Service). She rose in rank, and remained in uniform postwar. After her retirement some years later, she wrote an autobiography titled "Lady in the Navy" 1954 - Minesweeper HMCS Quinte commissioned as tender to HMCS Scotian, Halifax NS 1954 - Destroyer HMCS St Croix laid down Sorel PQ. Log - Built by Marine Industries Ltd. Destroyer Escort, 366x42x13.5ft, Cruising 14kts, maximum 28kts, endurance 4,750 n/m at 14kts. Machinery Geared Turbines - 2 shafts, 2 Propellers, SHP - 30,000 Boilers 2 Babcock & Wilcox water tube. Crew 12/237, Armament 2-3in/70 caliber Mk.6 (1XII) 90 rounds per minute to 10.5 miles; 2-3in/50 caliber Mk.33 (1XII) 85d elevation, 50 rounds per minute to 8 miles; 2 Mk. NC 10 Limbo, 3 barreled, automatic-loading mortars, range 3280ft; homing torpedoes. The first St Croix was the former USS McCook. She joined the RCN in 1940 & was torpedoed & sunk south of Iceland on 20 Sep 1943. Battle Honors - Atlantic 1940-1943. St Croix was sold 1991, $44,351.76, to Jacobs Metal of Chesapeake, Virginia, & towed from Halifax, for breaking up in early Apr 1991 1957 - USS Lake Champlain reaches Valencia, Spain to assist in flood rescue work 1958 - Light cruiser HMCS Ontario paid off Esquimalt BC 1960 - USS Patrick Henry begins successful firing of four Polaris test vehicles under operational rather than test conditions. Tests are completed on 18 October 1962 - Destroyer HMCS Mackenzie arrived Halifax from builder 1964 - Submarine HMS Auriga departed Halifax following ASW training 1964 - Announced that Soviet leader Nikita S. Khrushchev removed from office. Succeeded as premier by Alexei N. Kosygin and as Communist Party secretary by Leonid I. Brezhnev 1965 - USS Ticonderoga port call Pearl Harbor 1966 - USS Ticonderoga commenced Vietnam deployment with CVW-19 1969 - USS Bon Homme Richard port call Yokosuka 1965 - US Naval Support Activity Danang Vietnam, established 1965 - Opening of Macdonald-Cartier Bridge across Ottawa River, and the Gatineau Autoroute to Old Chelsea 1965 - Destroyer HMCS Margaree completed helicopter conversion 1974 - Destroyer HMCS St Laurent sold for $76,250.00 to local scrap dealer, after being stripped of valuable metal, resold for $87,000.00 1990 - USS Elmer Montgomery completed the 2500th intercept action by the multi-national intercept force since the operation began on 12 Aug 90. The USS ELMER MONTGOMERY hailed the Indian-registered cargo vessel "JAY GAYATRI" in the Northern Red Sea 1991 - Destroyer HMCS Athabaskan arrived Sorel PQ for TRUMP modernization 1993 - Destroyer HMCS Algonquin arrived Halifax from Operation Sharp Guard. Conducted 88 boardings during deployment 2003 - Commander Patrol & Reconnaissance Force US Pacific Fleet redesignated Director Patrol & Reconnaissance Group Pacific 2003 - Commander Patrol & Reconnaissance Wing Two established at MCB Kaneohe Bay HI 2003 - Commander Patrol & Reconnaissance Wing One redesignated Commander Patrol & Reconnaissance Force Seventh Fleet/Patrol & Reconnaissance Force Fifth Fleet. Home base changed from Kamiseya to Misawa, Japan 2003 - A Staten Island ferry crashed as it was docking at Staten Island, killing at least 10 people and leaving many others severely hurt 2003 - Cdr Peter A. Pellegrino, commanding officer of a radar-jamming EA-6B Prowler squadron, lost his job after one of his jets ran off the runway at Chambers Field in Norfolk. Pellegrino, commander of the Shadowhawks squadron at Whidbey Island, Wash., was fired for loss of confidence 2004 - Pittenween Harbor Master informed the Forth Coastguard that he had located ordinance at low water 2004 - Destroyer USS Momsen arrives at homeport of Everett WA for first time 2004 - USCGC Sequoia commissioned Apra Harbor, Guam 2005 - Two males were plucked from the water after their 16 foot cabin cruiser capsized in Bridlington Bay. Humber Coastguard received a '999' call at 1540 from a mobile telephone stating a vessel was sinking in the Brid Bay area, the line then cleared. Using the Enhanced Information System for Emergency Coordinators, Humber Coastguard was able to predict a circle of probability of where the mobile call was made, and later information revealed that call had been made by the casualty. Rescue Helicopter 128 from RAF Leconfield was diverted from an exercise and the request was made to launch RNLI lifeboats from Bridlington and Flamborough. Bridlington and Flamborough Coastguard rescue teams were sent to assist with preparations for a landing site 2005 - Opening of the Operational Year in the naval base of Lisbon 2005 - Fishing vessel Coastal Surveyor was found on fire and grounded, with two crew on board 100 yards offshore near Carloway, west coast of the Isle of Lewis, in the Outer Hebrides. Stornoway Coastguard received a telephone call from the skipper of the fishing vessel Jacomar II reporting the fishing vessel Coastal Surveyor was aground and on fire at Loch Roag, Isle of Lewis and two persons could be seen on deck. Coastguard rescue helicopter Mike Uniform from Stornoway was scrambled and Coastguard rescue teams from Breasclete, Ness and Bragar attended 2006 - An earthquake measuring 6.3 shook the Hawaiian Islands 2006 - A 23-year-old New York man, stabbed during a fight at a VFW bar, collapsed and died moments after he fled outside. Officer Chris Amos, a police spokesman, identified the victim as Devon Brathwaite. He was in the Navy and stationed aboard the aircraft carrier Harry S. Truman 2007 - Three senior officers of the Republic of China Navy Command Headquarters, including a rear admiral, have been transferred to other positions as punishment for the mishandling of classified documents Copyright 2008 Shirlaw News Group ISSN 1710-6966 Today in History Archives This information is licensed to the recipient only. Images may be subject to copyright. Ask before you right-click. Royal Navy photos are Courtesy of www.oldships.org.uk unless otherwise indicated. To contact us: 418-145 West Keith Rd North Vancouver BC V7M 1L3 Canada Phone: 778-338-4073 Fax: 778-338-4074 Read our Maritime Mishap Blog Manage your subscription