The Royal Canadian Navy has identified the victim of last week's tragedy, saying Petty Officer Second Class Gregory Applin was a 19-year veteran of the force.
Commodore Jacob French, commander of Canadian Fleet Atlantic, told reporters in a news conference on Monday that Petty Officer 2nd Class Gregory Applin was a crew member of HMCS Montreal.
A retired headmistress has been presented with a Naval cap to mark her 100th birthday, after saying that she had always ...
Not surprisingly, just about everyone knows everybody else in a small community like Reef’s Harbour-Shoal Cove West- New Ferrolle. The grief goes beyond that, as Applin’s wife also hails from the ...
The team of four Royal Navy personnel - Lieutenant Commander Izzy Rawlinson, Petty Officer Aaby Aldridge, Lieutenant Commander Ali Aindow and Lieutenant Commander Nic Hall - began their expedition ...
leaving in 1947 as a chief petty officer (and also a trained diver), briefly becoming a Royal Marines policeman. William Blackett (grandad), born in Wallsend in 1926. Joined the Royal Navy through ...
Pupils at three Fife schools have been given a taste of what a career in the Royal Navy would be like. Students from Queen Anne High School, Dunfermline High School, and Beath High School were invited ...