"The first Arctic patrol vessel for Canada’s Pacific fleet has officially been commissioned in a ceremony featuring Princess Anne, the sister of the King.
She attended the event Friday in North Vancouver in her role as commodore-in-chief for the Canadian Fleet Pacific. The ceremony was limited to one media photographer and one video camera.
The Department of National Defence said in a statement Friday that the official introduction of HMCS Max Bernays into the fleet included a “symbolic presentation of the keys to the ship” to the commanding officer, Commander Collin Forsberg, “along with the breaking of the ship’s commissioning pennant, and three cheers by the ship’s company.”
Forsberg told reporters ahead of the ceremony that the patrol vessel arrived in its new home port in Esquimalt last month. He said the ship was “designed for, principally, exercising Canadian sovereignty in northern waters.”
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