Recap of the final Sunday information session for families of HMCS Ottawa.

1. HMCS Ottawa
15 Dec 19
Sunday Session
Cdr Alex Barlow
Commanding Officer
HMCS Ottawa

2. Overview
• Ottawa’s Achievements to Date
• Where we’ve been and Life at Sea
• Current Program / Operational Focus
• Questions

3. Achievements to Date
• 61 days Op PROJECTION –Special Service Medal (SSM) –
Expeditionary medals were presented in Pearl Harbor.
• 46 Days Op NEON
• Port Visits in:
– Dutch Harbor (USA)
– Maizuru (Japan)
– Pyeongtaek/Incheon (ROK)
– Laem Chabang (Thailand)
– Busan (ROK)
– Sasebo (Japan)
– Yokosuka (Japan)
– Busan (ROK)
– Kure (Japan)
– Guam
– Pearl Harbor, HI

4. • Ottawa completed
support to UNSCR 2397
Ottawa has been a key
contributor to the
recognized maritime
pictures in the South
China Sea.
• 13 VOIs in total, 9 Ship to
Ship Transfers
Op NEON

5. From Leading Seaman to Master Seaman Eustace

6. From Leading Seaman to Master Seaman Garcia

7. From Master Seaman to Petty Officer Second Class Tyhurst

8. From Lieutenant(N) to Lieutenant Commander Dudeck

9. From Sub Lieutenant to Lieutenant(N) and
Lieutenant(N) to Lieutenant-Commander Chong

10. AB Trybuch achieves his Weapons Engineering Qualification Level 3

11. LS Lafleur-Blais achieves his Machinery Watchkeeping Certification

12. SLt Antworth earned his Bridge Watchkeeping Certificate

13. Gun Metal - Sea Service Insignia

14. Bronze/Silver - Sea Service Insignia

15. Where We’ve Been and Life at Sea

16. RAS with JS Oumi – ANNUALEX FINEX

17. PACIFIC VANGUARD

18. Ottawa from the sky

19. PACIFIC VANGUARD – RAN CONSORTS

20. A seahawk lands on Ottawa’s Flight Deck

21. Guam ahead of the storm

22. Ottawa’s Operations Department

23. The Logistics Department

24. Ready to RAS

25. The Image Tech tried out a new trade!
Gassing up before heading home

26. At the helm

27. Selling candy-grams and raising money for charity

28. Op NEON finale
Operating with RCAF
The Padre lost another bet

29. Thankfully Movember is over

30. Although some refuse to acknowledge it is no longer Movember

31. Daily PT Classes – still going strong

32. Damage Control Training

33. The last banyan

34. End of Mission Fireworks Show

35. Aloha!

36. Finally some R&R

37. Cleaning up brass after firing the 57mm gun

38. A rare image of the operations department’s workspace

39. More Ops Room footage

40. More Gunnery

41. Last Steak Night

42. Where is Ottawa now?
To Indo-Asia Pacific and Back

43. Upcoming Events
• Home!!!

44. Fun Facts about the Sail
• Ottawa has burned over 3.5 million liters of fuel
– Enough to fill a car for each of Ottawa’s 230 sailors 250 times (or once a week for 5 years).
• Ottawa has used approximately 2,300 Gigabytes of text messages, pictures, phone calls and
websites over IS2S
– That would be enough to fill 3,300 CD-ROMs
• Ottawa has sailed 58,600 Km
– It is only 40,000km around the world
• Although we cannot turn water into wine, we have turned 2.1 million litres of seawater into
drinking water using our reverse osmosis plants
– Enough for 68L of water per person per day since we left Esquimalt in December
• 2,000kg of bacon (2 metric tonnes)
• 6,700 litres of milk consumed
• Over 60,300 Eggs have been consumed
– 450 eggs per day

45. Merry Christmas to all the crew
and families of HMCS Ottawa!
QUESTIONS ?

46. 3 DAYS
UNTIL HOME!

47. HOMECOMING

48. HMCS OTTAWA
• Ship’s Arrival Jetty : A1
• Guest Reception Area : Chief & PO’s
• MFRC Staff at Reception Area : 0700
• Guests arrive at Reception Area : 0800
• Estimated Number of Guests: 325
• 2 Shuttles to Arrival Jetty begin: 0900
• Ship crosses Duntz Head : 1000
• Crew are able to depart : TBD

49. Signal Hill
Chief and PO’s
Parking – Small
Canteen Road lot –
First spot on left
approaching
Dockyard (across
from big lot)
Disabled parking @
C&PO Mess

50. TIPS FOR HOMECOMING DAY
• Arrive early - allows time for parking, ID
checks and a light snack
• For ID checks remember picture ID for
those over the age of 13)
• Dress warm - it's colder than you think on the
jetty
• Bring strollers for the smaller children
• Communicate with your member about who
will be on the jetty

51. Welcome Home