Spudgram HMCS LABRADOR
spud roscoe
Attached is a drawing of HMCS LABRADOR. She was a sister to the U.S. Coast Guard Wind Class Icebreakers. Would you know of a similar drawing of a Wind Class Icebreaker?
We learned a couple of days ago that LABRADOR carried two CS rates (communicator Supplementary ratings). This was my old trade or speciality as you call it in the navy. I knew one of those who sailed in LABRADOR.
We used to exchange members of our CS rates with your CT (Communication Technician) specialities. I had the pleasure of working with several CT’s. They were a great bunch.
You will note under the funnel a room for Coils. I have no idea what that was. Just below that is the radio room.
In order to carry CS rates she should have had 4-radio rooms. 1, the main operations room for the radio station. 2, the room housing the HF transmitters. 3, the room housing the VHF equipment. And 4, was our radio room. The door was covered in signs stating no admittance and what would happen if caught entering that room. We monitored the radio spectrum. We had 3 direction finders or radio compasses as the U.S. called them. One for the MF band that included 500-kilohertz. One for the MF RT and HF frequencies and one for taking bearings of radar signals we heard. The HF DF was a Cathode Ray DF and we cannot find the antenna for this unit on LABRADOR.
The U.S. Coast Guard did not have any CT’s to my knowledge.
LABRADOR was wide so would all 4-radio rooms have been in a line across the ship where it states radio room? That we will have to try and answer.
LABRADOR served from 1954 to 1957 and the first ship to circle North America.
A Coast Guard Captain told me every time the Canadian icebreakers asked LABRADOR to give them a hand to bust some ice the navy told them she was on a naval exercise around Jamaica. For that reason the government pulled her out of the navy and transferred her to the ice breaker fleet run by civilian government employees.
HMCS LABRADOR had call sign CGVM. She did not keep this call when transferred and was CGGM. She became CCGS LABRADOR when the Canadian Coast Guard was created in 1962. The navy radio stations were removed and the room called the upper bridge in this drawing became the radio room when she was transferred. She was fitted with a Marconi Globespan with two Atalanta receivers station.
73
Spud VE1BC
Steve Morris
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