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Submariners Association of Canada East Branch

EXECUTIVE for 2006

Chairman: B. Brown Treasurer: R. Evans

Address P.O. Box 91, Dartmouth, N.S., B2Y 3Y2

Secretary: Maurice (Pony) Moore Exec.Member: K. Estabrooks

Introduction to the Association

• Monthly/annual meetings. Election of officers

  National Maritime Museum Association / Take a tour of a Diesel Submarine

  Submarine Links

  "How Submariners Communicate"

  Oberon Class / submarine, photos and specifications

  List of SOCA Members and some E-Mail addresses

  CDN Submarine Crest

  Last dive of Onondaga pictures

  Centenary Program

• West Coast Navy update

  The New Submariner Association web site

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  • MONTHLY MEETINGS

    
    

    • The regular monthly meetings are held every last Wednesday of each month except for the November/December meetings which are replaced by the AGM on the first Saturday of December.

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  • ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING

    
    

    • The AGM will take place on the first Saturday of December of each year,
      Venue: Submarine Squadron (Escape Tower Mess) @ 1300 Hr.
      

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  • ELECTION OF OFFICERS

    
    

    • The branch executives are voted in at the AGM for the following year.
      
    • Nominations for a position are accepted prior to the last week of November, or from the floor at the AGM, for the next year.
      
    • Contact the Secretary for nomination.
    
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    "How Submariners Speak to Each Other"

    • The Dolphin Code was a method of encrypted communications designed to enable submarines, submariners, ship captains, helicopter pilots, and anti-submarine aircraft to speak to each other in areas of submarine operations or in many cases, social and domestic activities surrounding people of the "Trade". It came as a follow on from the popular but not precised enough, surface ship simile known as the "Falcon Code" that originated sometime in the 1960's.
    • The Dolphin Code was authored and published by Captain(N) K.G. Nesbit, CD (Ret'd) when as the Commanding Officer of the Canadian submarine, HMCS/m Okanagan as a Lieutenant Commander in 1975-6. During his tenure as C.O. Okanagan, Lcdr Nesbit played many gimmicks in order to "kill" the foe. Aboard, he had among the crew many who spoke French and two others who spoke in Spanish and Icelandic respectively. Together with a plethora of language and noise making devices such as an electric razor resonating in a pipe tobacco tin, 'Nezzie continued to baffle his surface, sub-surface, and aerial aggressors over the underwater telephone from any depth below the layers. It was at this time when Okanagan adopted the spanish vernacular "Pandera Rosetta" whose animated figure of the "Pink Panther" is illustrated on the front of Okanagan's fin to this day. It was also at this time when the submarine's main engines were dubbed "BERT" and "ERNIE" in commemoration of the stokers' love of the TV program, Sesame St.Think about it! Wan na have fun?
      Go to DOLPHIN 19.
      • The original published format has in its introduction the following:
        • FIRST CANADIAN SUBMARINE SQUADRON'S
        • (IN)FAMOUS DOLPHIN CODE
        • A SOUVENIR OF ASSOCIATION WITH
        • TRAVELLERS IN TUBULAR STEEL WHO DID IT BETTER
    July 1976
    Introduced by OKANAGAN
    Courtesy and Imagination of
    K.G. Nesbit and Company

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    This is a picture of an Oberon Class Submarine at sea, see the full picture of an Oberon submarine.

    HMCS OJIBWA, HMCS ONONDAGA, HMCS OKANAGAN:

    These present day Submarines all were built at H.M. Dockyard Chatham England. The OJIBWA was the first commissioned on 23 September 1965, the ONONDAGA commissioned 22 June 1967 and the newest arrival the OKANAGAN commissioned on 22 June 1968. All three of these Submarines are no more in service today, they have been replaced with the Upholder class. FACTS

    1. Onondaga and Okanagan were the first of the S22 class (super O's) constructed which included among many modifications, an inboard battery ventilation system. The RAN went on to build six of this class in other British yards as well as a lesser number to Brazil and Chile

    2.Ojibwa was originally laid down as HMS/m Onyx and where the RN were as anxious to have a super "O", they transferred that build (standard Oberon) to the RCN to become Ojibwa and later went on to build a new Onyx (super O), the only one that existed in the RN submarine service. Ojibwa's W/T bulkhead door at bulkhead 49 is resurrected from a discarded conventional T boat.

    
    

    
    

    3. Okanagan was the last submarine ever to be constructed in HM Dockyard Chatham, that yard steeped in submarine construction history.

    4. Each of the three boats had emblazoned in their attack periscope wells, the CANAVSUBREP crest (Canadian Naval Submarine Representative) which included two opposed vertical dolphins on a sky-blue background with a diagonal red slash across the cypher. At the top centre of the crest was inlaid a "Churchill Crown" coin commemorating Winston Churchill's passing away and the close affiliation between Canada and Britain. These coins all but disappeared into the first early refits in Halifax followed by the disappearance of the crests themselves in the course of time and relieving crew unaware of the significance.

    5. Commissioning Captains:

    All were former Commanding Officers in RN submarines...

    Lcdr. "Sam" Tomlinson	RCN...Ojibwa	former HMS/m Rorqual
    Lcdr. "Geoff" Meek	RCN...Onondaga	former HMS/m Artful
    Lcdr. "Nigel" Frawley	RCN...Okanagan	former HMS/m Opportune

    6. Many of the members of the (SOCA Canadian Branch) are from the original commissioning crews and are just as good today as they were then...if not better. Those that were Chiefs and Petty Officers were heralded with Dolphin 1A as they retired from the the submarine service.. "Your last surface was first class".

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    M.Moore