10/10/2023 0 Comments Canada navy world war 2 in pacific![]() ![]() It took time to build the Navy far from the sea in Canada’s interior training was a problem, recruiting even more so and attitudes were hard to change. ![]() The next 15 years were going to be trying ones for Hose, the RCN and the RCNVR. "We have to go through an anxious time as Regard the Canadian Navy, but although I deplore the arbitrary cut of one million in our appropriation, still I have by no means lost hope as regards the future, and I hope within the next couple of years to have an efficient reserve of at least 1500 men organized and trained by the nucleus of the permanent force, and I still believe from that we shall expand into a seagoing Service again. When RCN officers were given the choice of civilian life or the RCNVR, they chose civvy street. In 1923, the future of the Naval Reserve looked dim. The comments about the "five trawler navy" stung, and more public derision would have been heaped upon the proposal had critics known that the RCNVR would be born over a Chinese laundry, in a radio shop repair room, a fire hall, store basements, stock brokers officers and a lumber yard warehouse. It was a hard thing for Hose to do, but it was the RCNVR or virtually nothing. ![]() To keep the fledgling Royal Canadian Navy alive, Hose proposed that a Reserve force of 1500 be created dockyard facilities be maintained and that five RCN ships be retained to train Reservists and offer some form of coastal defence. As the head of the RCN, Hose saw $1 million arbitrarily cut from the $2.5 million 1923 naval appropriations. It was a stop-gap measure promoted by Admiral Walter Hose, then Chief of the Naval Service. More derisive comments than positive statements greeted the formation of the RCNVR. It took nearly 20 years to realize the value of the organization. Most Canadians expected few future benefits when the Royal Canadian Naval Volunteer Reserve was founded January 31, 1923. ![]() Men from factories and offices and stores, now turned to sailors" Yachtsmen and farmers, garage men and tailors, Turned Quartermasters, signalmen and stokers, The Canadian Naval Reserve – From War to War ![]()
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