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HMCS Prevost
His Majesty's Canadian Ship (HMCS) Prevost (/ˈpriːvoʊ/) is a Canadian Forces Naval Reserve Division (NRD) located in London, Ontario. Dubbed a stone frigate, HMCS Prevost is a land-based naval establishment for training part-time sailors as well as functioning as a local recruitment centre for the Royal Canadian Navy (RCN). Prevost reserve sailors serve on all classes of ship on both coasts and the Great Lakes and have served on many occasions overseas on UN and NATO tours of duty, along with harbour defence units.
Today,[when?] HMCS Prevost is home to just under 180 naval reservists and generates trained individuals and teams for the Royal Canadian Navy's domestic and international operations, while at the same time supporting the Canadian Armed Forces efforts to connect with Canadians through the maintenance of a broad national presence.
HMCS Prevost is properly referred to as a ship, since it has been officially christened as His Majesty's Canadian Ship. Since the ship is part of the reserves the majority of its sailors do not operate on a full-time basis, though there is a small staff that does.
The ship also hosts, in its wardroom, regular meetings of Fanshawe Yacht Club when the Upper Thames River Conservation Authority facility at Fanshawe Lake is closed for the winter.
In 2015, a Prevost reservist diver photographed himself on an ice floe, which the commander called "a stupid human trick", causing an international controversy.
London Division Royal Canadian Naval Volunteer Reserve (RCNVR) was organized following a visit in July by Commander E. R. Mainguy, RCN. Authority for this decision was received together with the appointment of E. E. Hart in command, as a lieutenant, 8 August 1938. The division was to consist of a half ship's company – 6 officers and 45 men. Quarters for the division were situated on the second floor of the Darch Building on Talbot Street, and the Market Square was used for parade ground activities.
After the outbreak of war, and the apparent inadequacy of the quarters, a move was made on 15 November 1939, to the Carling Block at Richmond and Carling streets, a property which had been vacated by the Postal Department upon completion of the Federal Building.
The decision, in 1941, to create independent commands in all shore establishments, brought about the search for appropriate names. As all naval divisions were affected, and to perpetuate names of ships that had served naval forces, but whose names were not currently allocated, it was decided to rename the division, for the most part, after ships that had served on the Great Lakes during the War of 1812. HMCS Prevost, named after HMS Lady Prevost, a schooner brig serving with the Royal Navy's Lake Erie squadron, so named in honour of the wife of Sir George Prevost, the then Governor General of Canada and Commander-in-Chief, of the British Forces in North America. The commissioning pennant was hoisted on 1 November 1941.
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HMCS Prevost
His Majesty's Canadian Ship (HMCS) Prevost (/ˈpriːvoʊ/) is a Canadian Forces Naval Reserve Division (NRD) located in London, Ontario. Dubbed a stone frigate, HMCS Prevost is a land-based naval establishment for training part-time sailors as well as functioning as a local recruitment centre for the Royal Canadian Navy (RCN). Prevost reserve sailors serve on all classes of ship on both coasts and the Great Lakes and have served on many occasions overseas on UN and NATO tours of duty, along with harbour defence units.
Today,[when?] HMCS Prevost is home to just under 180 naval reservists and generates trained individuals and teams for the Royal Canadian Navy's domestic and international operations, while at the same time supporting the Canadian Armed Forces efforts to connect with Canadians through the maintenance of a broad national presence.
HMCS Prevost is properly referred to as a ship, since it has been officially christened as His Majesty's Canadian Ship. Since the ship is part of the reserves the majority of its sailors do not operate on a full-time basis, though there is a small staff that does.
The ship also hosts, in its wardroom, regular meetings of Fanshawe Yacht Club when the Upper Thames River Conservation Authority facility at Fanshawe Lake is closed for the winter.
In 2015, a Prevost reservist diver photographed himself on an ice floe, which the commander called "a stupid human trick", causing an international controversy.
London Division Royal Canadian Naval Volunteer Reserve (RCNVR) was organized following a visit in July by Commander E. R. Mainguy, RCN. Authority for this decision was received together with the appointment of E. E. Hart in command, as a lieutenant, 8 August 1938. The division was to consist of a half ship's company – 6 officers and 45 men. Quarters for the division were situated on the second floor of the Darch Building on Talbot Street, and the Market Square was used for parade ground activities.
After the outbreak of war, and the apparent inadequacy of the quarters, a move was made on 15 November 1939, to the Carling Block at Richmond and Carling streets, a property which had been vacated by the Postal Department upon completion of the Federal Building.
The decision, in 1941, to create independent commands in all shore establishments, brought about the search for appropriate names. As all naval divisions were affected, and to perpetuate names of ships that had served naval forces, but whose names were not currently allocated, it was decided to rename the division, for the most part, after ships that had served on the Great Lakes during the War of 1812. HMCS Prevost, named after HMS Lady Prevost, a schooner brig serving with the Royal Navy's Lake Erie squadron, so named in honour of the wife of Sir George Prevost, the then Governor General of Canada and Commander-in-Chief, of the British Forces in North America. The commissioning pennant was hoisted on 1 November 1941.