Hero Class Coast Guard Vessels Honour Fallen Soldiers

[Mowich]

"Just ahead of Remembrance Day, a Canadian hero from the First World War is to be immortalized Wednesday in Halifax in the naming of the first of nine new patrol vessels for the Canadian Coast Guard.

Pte. James Peter Robertson was posthumously awarded the Victoria Cross for his "most conspicuous bravery and outstanding devotion to duty" in attacking enemy soldiers and saving the lives of several comrades during a battle in Belgium."

Read more: Patrol vessel named for fallen Medicine Hat hero
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[taxslave]

"Just ahead of Remembrance Day, a Canadian hero from the First World War is to be immortalized Wednesday in Halifax in the naming of the first of nine new patrol vessels for the Canadian Coast Guard.

Pte. James Peter Robertson was posthumously awarded the Victoria Cross for his "most conspicuous bravery and outstanding devotion to duty" in attacking enemy soldiers and saving the lives of several comrades during a battle in Belgium."

Read more: Patrol vessel named for fallen Medicine Hat hero
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Nice idea but you would think that even the clueless land lubbers in Ottawa would have picked a naval hero to name a ship after.

 

[petros]

You'd think.

 

[#juan]

Nice idea but you would think that even the clueless land lubbers in Ottawa would have picked a naval hero to name a ship after.

They still can.. But there is no reason not to name one of the dozens of new ships after a soldier.