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Canada’s Admirals and Commodores
Canada’s Admirals and Commodores (2016) Norman H. Jolin & John M. MacFarlane 3rd edition, Revised and Updated. Foreword by Admiral John Anderson RCN (Retd). (191 pages) C$30 plus postage. ISBN 978–0–9693001–6–8
This project was begun by the Maritime Museum in 1990 and two very popular editions were published. It was presumed that it would be updated from time to time but this has only happened now with a much needed third edition. This is a good reference book and contains fascinating supporting documentation. Each Flag Officer’s career is accurately detailed. Since there is no other publicly available reference on this topic this book is essential to historians, writers, students and members of the Canadian Forces.
It can be ordered directly from the Maritime Museum call direct 250–385–4222 (ext 102) to place your order. Its C$30 plus postage.
Site News: December 21, 2024
The vessel database has been updated and is now holding 94,824 vessel histories (with 16,274 images and 13,929 records of ship wrecks and marine disasters).
Vessel records are currently being reviewed and updated with more than 45,000 processed so far this year (2024).
The mariner and naval biography database has also been updated and now contains 58,599 entries (with 3996 images).
Thanks to Ray Warren who is beginning a long process of filling gaps in the photo record of vessel histories in the database. Ray has been documenting the ships of Vancouver Harbour for more than 60 years.
Thanks to contributor Mike Rydqvist McCammon for the hundreds of photos he has contributed to illustrate British Columbia’s floating heritage.
My very special thanks to our volunteer IT adviser, John Eyre, who (since 2021) has modernized, simplified and improved the update process for the databases into semi–automated processes. His participation has been vital to keeping the Nauticapedia available to our netizens.