#OTD 2/10/2004 #RememberRCN -Former HMSubmarine UPHOLDER accepted by the RCN, renamed CHICOUTIMI at Faslane, Scotland and is the last of four Victoria class submarines accepted by the RCN. (RCN Photo)

#OTD 2/10/1952 #RememberRCN -HMCS IROQUOIS engaged Chinese shore batteries off Korea & is struck by shell aft of “B” Gun, killing 3 sailors & wounding 11. IROQUIOUS broke off to tend wounded & repair damage, returning the next day, destroying the enemy guns. Photo -For Posterity's Sake

#OTD 2/10/1951 #RememberRCN -1st post-war course of 25 Wrens begins at HMCS Cornwallis for the Naval Reserve. Trades include stores women, administrative writers, medical, naval air-women, harbour craft operators, communicators, radio technicians, electrical technicians, & ordnance.

#OTD 2/10/1939 #RememberRCN -The Canadian Survey Ship Acadia recommissioned in RCN as HMCS ACADIA. This historic Canadian hydrographic ship 1st entered naval service during First World War & is now a museum ship at the Maritime Museum of the Atlantic in Halifax. Photo -ACADIA w/ HMSub SEAWOLF -1943.

#OTD 1/10/2007 #RememberRCN -HMCS TORONTO operating as part of Standing NATO Maritime Group 1 in the Red Sea rescues 1 of 8 Yemini soldiers, forced into the water by an erupting volcano from the island of Jazirt Atta-Ir.

#OTD 1/10/1941 #RememberRCN -Appropriately named, Sail Training schooner HMCS ATTABOY is commissioned into the RCN. The owner, Lt. Thomas Fuller, RCNVR (AKA -The Pirate of the Adriatic for his exploits commanding MGB's) of Ottawa loaned the 38 ft schooner to train RCNVR sailors.

#OTD 30/9/1953 #RememberRCN -The second of five Royal Canadian Navy Reserve Squadrons is formed at Kingston ON. VC 921 Squadron is tendered to HMCS CATARAQUI flying Harvard trainers and an Expeditor.

#OTD 29/9/1952 #RememberRCN -Cdr Landymore, RCN as SO Task Unit 95.22 orders 4 USN destroyers to bombard a North Korean gun emplaced in a cave on a cliff, without success. He then moves HMCS IROQUOIS close inshore & with a single broadside, destroys the deeply embedded gun.

#OTD 28/9/1996 #RememberRCN -HMCS Ottawa (4th) commissioned at Cornwall, ON. and is the last of 12 Halifax class Canadian Patrol frigates to enter RCN service.

#OTD 28/9/1963 #RememberRCN -HMCS PROVIDER (2nd), Provider class operational support ship commissioned & is the only ship in the class.

#OTD 28/9/1944 #RememberRCN -HMCS BOWMANVILLE commissioned and is the last of 12 Castle Class corvettes to enter service with the RCN. Built as Royal Navy NUNNEY CASTLE, transferred to Canada before completed.

#OTD 27/9/1954 #RememberRCN -HMCS LABRADOR arrives in Esquimalt & is the 1st RCN ship & 1st warship to transit the Canadian Northwest Passage from Atlantic to Pacific Oceans. Photo -LABRADOR with the RCMP Vessel St. Roch at Esquimalt. St. Roch was the 1st ship to transit Northwest Passage.

#OTD 25/9/1950 #RememberRCN -HMCS ATHABASKAN sends 30 heavily armed sailors in two boats to Korean island of Piun-to. On landing, they found the North Korean soldiers had retreated the day before. The sailors made arrangements for rice and flour for the embattled islanders.

#OTD 25/9/1940 #RememberRCN -HMCS Prince Robert intercepts and captures German passenger freighter Weser off Mexico. Taken as a prize by @RoyalCanNavy & is renamed MS Vancouver Island, entering service with the Canadian Government Merchant Marine.

#OTD 24/9/1997 #RememberRCN -Vice-Admiral Gregory R. Maddison became the 28th person to command Canada`s Navy as Commander Maritime Command and Chief of the Maritime Staff (CMS), replacing VAdm Gary Garnett who had been appointed Vice-Chief of the Defence Staff.

#OTD 24/9/1955 #RememberRCN -HMCS SIOUX returns to Esquimalt, the last #RCNavy ship to leave Korea. Ending RCN's participation in the Korean War. DND Photo

#OTD 24/9/1943 #RememberRCN -U536 enters Baie des Chaleurs waiting off Pointe de Maisonette for UBoat POW’s from Camp 30 in Bowmanville. RCMP foiled escape & RCN laid a trap to capture/sink sub. U536 escaped by hugging the coast on 28 Sept after getting caught in a fishing net.

#OTD 24/9/1940 #RememberRCN -Under the British/American Destroyers for Bases agreement, six USN destroyers are transferred to Canada as Town class destroyers. HMCShips ANNAPOLIS, COLUMBIA, NIAGARA, ST CLAIR, ST CROIX & ST FRANCIS are commissioned into the RCN at Halifax.

#OTD 23/9/1965 #RememberRCN -HMCSubmarine OJIBWA, “O” class submarine, commissions into the RCN at Chatham, UK. She is the first of three “O” class subs built for the RCN. A forth would be acquired as a dockside training vessel. OJIBWA is now a museum ship at Port Burwell, ON.

#OTD 23/9/1944 #RememberRCN -With a variety of personalized funnel marking on RCN ships, Royal Canadian Navy officially adopts a single green Maple Leaf on the funnels of all ships. The Red Maple Leaf would be adopted in 1949. Discover more! zurl.co/LoScU