CFB Esquimalt

On Wednesday April 14, my class attended a field trip to the Canadian Forces Base Esquimalt. This Navy base controls the West Coast and the Arctic. Not only a base, CFB Esquimalt is also a fleet school where cadets and average people train to become Seamen. The school had shops like metal and wood. The skills that you learned here were the skills that you would need to fix a hull breach, engine failure, or even a broken air conditioning unit. The tourguide explained to us that each ship works like a small city, everything must be maintained. We toured the school and the ships Yellowknife and the Nanaimo. These two ships work as multi-functioning patrol boats. They mine sweep, map the floor of the ocean, and patrol the waters of the Arctic and the West Coast. The Ships had one 40mm Bofor and two 50cal. machine guns. In the small arms locker they had MP5s, C7s and shotguns. Before we toured the ships we ate at the cafeteria. The cafeteria had good prices, and the food was filling. Overall I thought that the tour was cool.