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How do warships refuel while at sea? by Joe Mac Millan
Many years ago I did what the ads called for. I joined the Royal Canadian Navy to see the world. I loved it. Since the world was almost at peace our task was to sail the oceans of the world in company with navies from other countries, carrying out training exercises, and calling at many ports as roving ambassadors.
What an exciting life it was. We visited countries such as the beauties lying in the Caribbean, The Virgin Islands, Trinidad, Puerto Rico, Cuba, and many others. We also visited Norway, England, Ireland, Holland. We paused at Gibraltar on our way to France, Italy and Spain in the Mediterranean sea. Nothing could parallel the feeling of entering a port of call we had only read about in our history books.
During these visits we saw the crown jewels in London, the pope in Rome, the diamond cutters in Amsterdam, Havana before Castro took over, the Empire State Building, as well as the fiords of Norway and many other wonderful and exciting places.
Our basic training culminated with a trip to Bermuda from our base in Halifax, Nova Scotia on an old minesweeping vessel. Shortly after our return I joined what was to be my new home for the next year and a half as a crew member on board HMCS Haida, a destroyer that made its mark in both World War 11 and that earned a designation as a train buster while carrying out raids during the Korean War. It