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- Title
"The Gates" at Our Gates: F.R. (Hamish) Berchem and the Role of the Eastern Based Porte-class Gate Vessels after Canadian Armed Forces Unification.
- Authors
Zimmerman, George L.; Crerar, Duff W.
- Abstract
Faced with near extinction after the unification of the Canadian Armed Forces in 1968, the Naval Reserve community had to prove its relevance in the era of nuclear missile exchange. A few officers took it upon themselves to demonstrate that the Naval Reserve could make significant contributions to the sea defence of Canada. The main training sea going platforms were the dowdy trawler designed Porte-class gate vessels. Referencing, primarily, the extensive fonds of the officer in charge, a naval reservist, Commander F.R. Berchem, this article chronicles the sea going training and operations of the gate vessels on the East Coast and Great Lakes from 1971 to 1975. The work of like-minded reserve commanders and their crews in the gate vessels was vital in preserving the sea-going capability of the citizen sailors of Canada during this difficult decade.
- Subjects
GREAT Lakes (North America); CANADIAN military; NAVAL reserves; NUCLEAR weapons; SAILORS
- Publication
Northern Mariner / Le Marin du Nord, 2022, Vol 32, Issue 3, p315
- ISSN
1183-112X
- Publication type
Article