Shipboard Newspapers

 

 

Shipboard newspapers were the creation of various members of each ship's company.  The editors published news of daily / weekly events on the ship - sometimes factual, sometimes slightly modified for entertainment purposes.  Regardless of whether or not the stories were fact or fiction, these "rags" were great moral boosters onboard ship.  Below are a few issues of ship board newspapers that were submitted for posterity's sake.

 

The Arnpress

Christmas edition - Dec 1944

HMCS ARNPRIOR K494

 

Christmas edition

Dec 1951

HMCS ATHABASKAN 219

"Hot Pot"

5-11 Dec 1953

HMCS CHAUDIERE 235

 

The Restigouche Horn

NATO 1970

HMCS RESTIGOUCHE 257

 

The Monnowlog

09 Oct 1944 - 23 Apr 1945

HMCS MONNOW K441

 

The Saguenay Latest

Final Edition - 24 Jun 1990

HMCS SAGUENAY 206

 

The Uganda Tar Paper

14 Feb - 09 Aug 1945

HMCS UGANDA

The Lay Vee Light

9 Editions - 1945

HMCS LEVIS K400

 

Smoke Signal

2 Editions

HMCS HURON 281

The Canuk Press

May 1952 *

 

* This souvenir edition of the Canuk Press was published onboard USNS Private Sado S. Munemuri while enroute from Kure, Japan to Esquimalt, BC

 

 

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