About Us
R.C.S.C.C. Chaudière is a Sea cadet Corp in Milton Ontario. This free program is offered to youth from ages 12 to 18 to help develop Leadership, Citizenship and Physical Fitness. Cadets learn work skills including teamwork, leadership, and citizenship.
Cadets also gain the personal benefits of increased self-confidence and physical fitness, learning how to take initiative, and make decisions. Our training involves subjects, such as Seamanship, Drill, Marksmanship and History of the Royal Canadian Navy. The combined training helps to instill a number of personal skills like initiative, self-esteem, confidence, problem solving skills and awareness of environmental issues.
Sea cadets have the opportunity to participate in weekend camps, special events, sailing and various other activities which allow them to meet other youths from around Canada. Cadets also get a special opportunity to attend Cadet Summer Training Camps across the country, to take part in various training. Senior cadets have the opportunity for exchanges to foreign countries and may also be employed at the Training Camps.
Sea Cadets in addition make contributions to the society on a daily basis in terms of environmental, community activities and services. There is no cost to join the Royal Canadian Sea Cadets. All uniforms and learning material is provided free of charge.
Cadets also gain the personal benefits of increased self-confidence and physical fitness, learning how to take initiative, and make decisions. Our training involves subjects, such as Seamanship, Drill, Marksmanship and History of the Royal Canadian Navy. The combined training helps to instill a number of personal skills like initiative, self-esteem, confidence, problem solving skills and awareness of environmental issues.
Sea cadets have the opportunity to participate in weekend camps, special events, sailing and various other activities which allow them to meet other youths from around Canada. Cadets also get a special opportunity to attend Cadet Summer Training Camps across the country, to take part in various training. Senior cadets have the opportunity for exchanges to foreign countries and may also be employed at the Training Camps.
Sea Cadets in addition make contributions to the society on a daily basis in terms of environmental, community activities and services. There is no cost to join the Royal Canadian Sea Cadets. All uniforms and learning material is provided free of charge.
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HMCS CHAUDIERE
HMCS Chaudiere was a Restigouche-class destroyer that served in the Royal Canadian Navyand later the Canadian Forces from 1959-1974. She was named for the Chaudiere River.Chaudiere was the second vessel in her class and is the second Canadian naval unit to bear this name.
She was laid down on 30 July 1953 at Halifax Shipyards Ltd., Halifax and launched on 13 November 1957. She was commissioned into the RCN on 14 No After serving out of Halifax for 8 years, Chaudiere sailed for the west coast on 2 October 1967 and remained as part of the Pacific Fleet until 1970. That year she was reduced to a training role due to manpower shortages in the Royal Canadian Navy. Chaudiere was not selected Destroyer Life Extension (DELEX) program and her selection for the Improved Restigouche (IRE) was cut due to economic reasons.[2] She was instead decommissioned from active service in the CF on 23 May 1974. She was placed in Category C reserve and in 1988 she reverted to a parts hulk, with part of her bow being used in 1989 to repair her sistership HMCS Kootenay.[3] She was sunk as an artificial reef in Sechelt Inlet, British Columbia on 5 December 1992.[vember 1959 carrying the pennant number 235.
The History of the CHAUDIERE (1st)Completed in 1936 as HMS Hero, she was extensive service in the Second World War, including the second Battle of Narvik, April 1940; the evacuation of Greece and Crete, April and May, 1941; and the Syrian invasion, June, 1941. As a unit of the Mediterranean Fleet, she also took part in the second Battle of Sirte in March, 1942, and, in May and October of the same year, shared in the sinking of two U-boats. In April, 1943, she returned to the U.K. for a major refit at Portsmouth, and there was transferred to the RCN on November 15, 1943, becoming HMCS Chaudiere. In January, 1944, she became a member of EG C-2, MOEF, and on March 6, shared in the destruction of U 744. In May she was assigned to EG 11, Western Approaches Command, for invasion support duty, and was present on D-Day. On August 20 and 28, respectively, she assisted in the sinking of U 984, west of Brest, and of U 621 off La Rochelle. During the next three months she was employed in patrol and support duties in the North Atlantic, Bay of Biscay, and English Channel. She returned to Halifax at the end of November for repairs, and a major refit begun at Sydney two months later was still incomplete on VE-Day. Chaudiere was paid off August 17, 1945 to reserve at Sydney, and broken up there in 1950.
CHAUDIERE (1st) Statistical Data
CHAUDIERE (2nd) Statistical Data
HMCS Chaudiere was a Restigouche-class destroyer that served in the Royal Canadian Navyand later the Canadian Forces from 1959-1974. She was named for the Chaudiere River.Chaudiere was the second vessel in her class and is the second Canadian naval unit to bear this name.
She was laid down on 30 July 1953 at Halifax Shipyards Ltd., Halifax and launched on 13 November 1957. She was commissioned into the RCN on 14 No After serving out of Halifax for 8 years, Chaudiere sailed for the west coast on 2 October 1967 and remained as part of the Pacific Fleet until 1970. That year she was reduced to a training role due to manpower shortages in the Royal Canadian Navy. Chaudiere was not selected Destroyer Life Extension (DELEX) program and her selection for the Improved Restigouche (IRE) was cut due to economic reasons.[2] She was instead decommissioned from active service in the CF on 23 May 1974. She was placed in Category C reserve and in 1988 she reverted to a parts hulk, with part of her bow being used in 1989 to repair her sistership HMCS Kootenay.[3] She was sunk as an artificial reef in Sechelt Inlet, British Columbia on 5 December 1992.[vember 1959 carrying the pennant number 235.
The History of the CHAUDIERE (1st)Completed in 1936 as HMS Hero, she was extensive service in the Second World War, including the second Battle of Narvik, April 1940; the evacuation of Greece and Crete, April and May, 1941; and the Syrian invasion, June, 1941. As a unit of the Mediterranean Fleet, she also took part in the second Battle of Sirte in March, 1942, and, in May and October of the same year, shared in the sinking of two U-boats. In April, 1943, she returned to the U.K. for a major refit at Portsmouth, and there was transferred to the RCN on November 15, 1943, becoming HMCS Chaudiere. In January, 1944, she became a member of EG C-2, MOEF, and on March 6, shared in the destruction of U 744. In May she was assigned to EG 11, Western Approaches Command, for invasion support duty, and was present on D-Day. On August 20 and 28, respectively, she assisted in the sinking of U 984, west of Brest, and of U 621 off La Rochelle. During the next three months she was employed in patrol and support duties in the North Atlantic, Bay of Biscay, and English Channel. She returned to Halifax at the end of November for repairs, and a major refit begun at Sydney two months later was still incomplete on VE-Day. Chaudiere was paid off August 17, 1945 to reserve at Sydney, and broken up there in 1950.
CHAUDIERE (1st) Statistical Data
- Pendant: H99
- Type: Destroyer'
- Class: RIVER Class British'
- Displacement: 1340 tonnes'
- Length: 323 ft'
- Width: 33 ft'
- Draught: 9.9 ft'
- Speed: 31 kts'
- Compliment: 10 Officers and 171 Crew'
- Arms: 2-4.7", 4-21" Torpedo Tubes (1 xIV), 2-6 pdrs., 6-20mm, Hedgehog'
- Builder: Vickers-Armstrongs Ltd., Newcastle-on-Tyne. U.K.'
- Keel Laid: 28-Feb-35'
- Date Launched: 10-Mar-36'
- Date Commissioned: 15-Nov-43
CHAUDIERE (2nd) Statistical Data
- Pendant: 235
- Type: Destroyer Escort
- Class: Restigouche
- Displacement: 2,366 tonnes
- Length: 366 ft
- Width: 42 ft
- Draught: 13.5 ft
- Speed: 28 kts
- Compliment: 12 Officers and 237 Crew
- Arms: 4 - 3" (2 x II), 2 Limbo, Homing Torpedoes
- Builder: Halifax Shipyards Ltd., Halifax, NS
- Keel Laid: 30-Jul-53
- Date Launched: 13-Nov-57
- Date Commissioned: 14-Nov-59chelt Inlet, B.C., on 5 December 1992.
- Sunk as an artificial reef December 5, 1992 off Kunechin Point