The June 1949 issue of the navy’s magazine, The Crownsnest, carried a story relating the visit by a group of STAR officers to STELCO to inspect corvettes awaiting scrapping for anything useful for training. See: http://readyayeready.com/crowsnest/issue.php?year=49&month=06. Thanks to SLt Marko Babic for the link. See also Warships Scrapped in Hamilton at https://hamiltonnaval.ca/hamilton-steel-city-naval-town/warships-scrapped-in-hamilton/
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Lieutenant George Malcomsom
Update to The Hamilton Naval Company 1862-1869 & The Fenians. https://hamiltonnaval.ca/h-m-c-s-star/the-hamilton-naval-company-and-the-fenians/
RCNA – Royal Canadian Naval Association
The Canadian Naval Association was formed in 1954 and became the Royal Canadian Naval Association in 1963. A series of reunions were held each year with the fifth in Hamilton in June 1959.
The 1959 CNA parade at the Cenotaph, Gore Park, Hamilton, probably 6 or 7 June 1959. STAR’s band fallen in facing the Cenotaph and the ship’s company on the south side of the Gore.