Halifax Chronicle-Herald
October 1st, 1931
HALIFAX, N.S.
The keels of the latest additions to the RCN were laid today at Versitile Vickers. Described as repeats of the ships due to be launched next month, HMCS
Nova Scotia and HMCS
New Brunswick are expected to be completed in early 1933.
Halifax Chronicle-Herald
October 4th, 1931
HALIFAX, N.S.
The RCMP has dispatched it's recently refit freighters on extended shakedown cruises in northern waters. RCMPS
Simon Fraser amd RCMPS
Robert McCormick have been send on expeditions into the Beaufort Sea, RCMPS
John Davis and RCMPS
James Cook have been sent to Baffin Bay, and RCMPS
Henry Hudson and RCMPS
Mary Sachs to the Hudson Straight. The two other ships have also sortied, but the RCMP has not disclosed any details on their destination other than the vauge notation of "Northern Arctic".
Halifax Chronicle-Herald
November 6th, 1931
HALIFAX, N.S.
HMCS
Manitoba has been launched with great fanfare, in a ceremony vastly overshadowing her laying down several months ago. Many dignitaries were present, including Prime Minister Mackenzie King, several members of parliment, as well as the Governer-General. HMCS
Saskatchewan is scheduled to be launched next week, albiet with a lesser degree of pomp and circumstance. Construction on both ships is expected to continue for at least another six months before they will be comissioned into the RCN.
Halifax Chronicle-Herald
November 12th, 1931
SOMEWHERE IN THE ATLANTIC
[SIZE=1]RMS
Olympic, as seen from HMCS
Scott[/SIZE]
Reports have reached Halifax that the liner RMS
Olympic of the White Star Line was raided in an act of piracy during an Bermuda-to-Halifax run yesterday. Wireless reports with the ship seem to indicate the ship believes it was attacked by the renowned pirate Harlock, marking his first known appearance since a battle with Chilean, Indian, and Danish forces 3 years ago, and his first in the Atlantic. Furthermore, while it has been confirmed that the fast freighter SS
Highwind of the ShinRa Steamship Co. was also raided in the Pacific last month, reports of this attack being Harlock's doing are being questioned due to the most recent attack. Both ships are currently Canadian owned, with
Highwind's owners SSco. are under the ShinRa, Incorporated of Montreal umbrella, while White Star recently moved it's offices to Halifax after the dissolution of J.P. Morgan's International Mercantile Marine Co.
Halifax Chronicle-Herald
November 18th, 1931
HALIFAX, N.S.
It has been announced that the two large freighters under RCN ownership are going to be dispatched to the South Pacific to resupply the RCN anti-piracy task force with some needed machinery parts, food stuffs, and other supplies difficult to come by at foreign ports.
Alison Lockhart and
Crystal Veaumont will be sailing on the 22nd.
OOC- I'm stealing White Star Line from RLBH and Canis. We would prefer to keep it, but are open to returning it in exchange for the QE class and 5 factories, tax free. (: The backstory has some historical accuracy to it; IMM was dissolved in 1931, and without the Depression I don't think there would have been as much pressure for a White Star-Cunard merger. Plus, no one's mentioned it thus far, and we wouldn't want Olympic to meet her historic fate. ):