HMCS Ontario – Aug.1958
Vancouver Sea festival, Ontario’s last trip and visit to Vancouver. Was ashore with a shipmate Quinlan who has since passed away. This was to be my last run ashore, The beard comes off and I go on leave and head to Drumheller Alberta to get married the 30th, Aug.1958. (Tie the old Knot – Navy lingo) Them days you wrote out request form to see the Captain of the ship, salute and ask permission to get married; and wait for his comments, granted and good luck etc, etc. I would later return to Esquimalt with my bride. The ship would go through a process of taking all equipment and stores off the ship. And it would decommission in Oct.1958 and later towed by tugs to the far East for scrapping. That was a sad day indeed.
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