Comments on: Burnaby’s Top Secret Submarine Base

By: Larry H

Larry H — Thu, 23 Dec 2021 14:27:20 +0000

In addition to the two references cited for this blog article, author Bill Lightfoot describes the efforts of the naval architect/businessman James Venn Paterson, who set up the Barnet Village submarine yard, as well as a second submarine construction site in downtown Vancouver immediately south of the Immigration Building (since torn down) between the main-line tracks of the CPR. This is very near the present cruise line terminal.

See Chapters 3 and 14 in Lightfoot, Bill. Beneath the Surface: Submarines Built in Seattle and Vancouver 1909-1918, Vancouver: Cordillera Books, 2005. (ISBN 1-895590-31-0

Paterson was also instrumental in Canada acquiring its first submarines, CC-1 and CC2, from a shipyard in Seattle.

By: Greg

Greg — Tue, 12 Oct 2021 15:35:15 +0000

Those submarine pieces were shipped to Puget Sound Navy Yard in Bremerton. (Today PSNS in Bremerton.)

“The shipment of the final six was held up pending the outcome of the Russian Revolution of 1917, and the boats were stored in knockdown condition at their construction yard. All six were purchased by the United States Navy on 20 May 1918 and assembled at Puget Sound Navy Yard before being commissioned as H-4 to H-9 in late 1918.”

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_H-class_submarine

By: nonconfidencevote

nonconfidencevote — Sat, 03 Jul 2021 23:42:14 +0000

In reply to James.

Because if the Canadian Govt got involved.
We still wouldnt have delivered those subs to Russia….
🙁

By: James

James — Fri, 12 Jun 2020 19:24:21 +0000

Now that is hidden history! Questions to our govt would be why abandon such a facility? Submarines made in Canada for sale! Instead we, as usual had to buy subs from elsewhere further down the war path. 1917 would have ended the orders from Russia anyway.
Now what about this cemetery?

By: James

James — Fri, 12 Jun 2020 19:23:50 +0000

By: Francis Lemieux

Francis Lemieux — Tue, 09 Jun 2020 05:51:13 +0000

Sorry, typo, should be Do you know if there was a cemetery there?

By: Francis Lemieux

Francis Lemieux — Tue, 09 Jun 2020 05:49:55 +0000

Do you know it there was a cemetery there?