Regina 2003-2005, and as Commanding Officer in
Halifax 2007-2009. In so doing, he deployed repeatedly - including three Arabian Gulf and one Adriatic Sea tours - and also circumnavigated the globe (Calgary, 1995). As a Capt(N), he was the Maritime Component Commander of Canadian Joint Task Force (Haiti), leading sea-based humanitarian assistance and disaster relief operations in response to the 2010 earthquake in Haiti. He then commanded a seven-ship combined, multi-national Task Group in the High Arctic later in 2010 during the annual Op NANOOK. Later, as a RAdm, he also led the CAF s recurring Op LENTUS responses to historic fires and floods in BC while commanding Joint Task Force Pacific 2016-2018.
All available resources will be used to find a master sailor from Manitoba who is believed to have accidentally fallen overboard while on the HMCS Winnipeg, the Canadian government said. Commodore . . .
VICTORIA Canadian frigate HMCS Winnipeg will return to Esquimalt, B.C. on Friday, ending a nearly five-month deployment that was mired in tragedy with the loss of a sailor this week. Defence Minister Harjit Sajjan and Vice-Admiral Art McDonald, commander of the Royal Canadian Navy, are expected to attend the ship s arrival, in what will be a muted ceremony compared to holiday homecomings of the past. The ship left Canadian Forces Base Esquimalt at the end of July, participating in Exercise Rim of the Pacific (RIMPAC) off Hawaii before completing two maritime-security missions in the Asia-Pacific region. On its passage back home Monday, a 47-year-old crewmember was declared missing at sea off the coast of California.
VICTORIA The Royal Canadian Navy will launch an inquiry into how a sailor went overboard and was lost at sea off the coast of California while his ship was returning home from deployment this week. The search for Master Sailor Duane Earle concluded around 5:30 p.m. Tuesday after searchers spent upwards of 30 hours scouring the waters 500 nautical miles west of San Francisco. Commodore Angus Topshee, the commander of Canadian Fleet Pacific, thanked the United States military and coast guard Wednesday for their assistance in the search and said officials are still baffled by how Earle went overboard. We really cannot explain how he came to be in the water, Topshee said. We will be conducting a board of inquiry to determine how that happened.
Government promises resources in search for Manitoba sailor missing at sea
All available resources will be used to find a master sailor from Manitoba who is believed to have accidentally fallen overboard while on the HMCS Winnipeg, the Canadian government said.
Dec 15, 2020 6:53 PM By: Canadian Press
All available resources will be used to find a master sailor from Manitoba who is believed to have accidentally fallen overboard while on the HMCS Winnipeg, the Canadian government said.
Commodore Angus Topshee, commander of the Canadian Fleet Pacific, said Duane Earle of Winnipeg vanished Monday while the ship was west of San Francisco.