{"id":11127,"date":"2022-03-11T14:21:52","date_gmt":"2022-03-11T19:21:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.porticomagazine.ca\/?p=11127"},"modified":"2022-06-24T14:29:22","modified_gmt":"2022-06-24T18:29:22","slug":"from-arctic-to-caribbean-first-ever-navy-voyage-offers-adventure-for-grad","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/porticomagazine.ca\/2022\/03\/from-arctic-to-caribbean-first-ever-navy-voyage-offers-adventure-for-grad\/","title":{"rendered":"From Arctic to Caribbean, First-ever Navy Voyage Offers ‘Adventure’ for Grad"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

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From retracing the footsteps of the Franklin expedition in Canada\u2019s Arctic to taking part in cocaine drug busts in the Caribbean, Lisa Tubb had her share of memorable moments during her first-ever deployment with the Royal Canadian Navy (RCN) in fall 2021.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It was a voyage of firsts for Tubb, who grew up in landlocked Mitchell, Ont., before studying history at the equally landlocked U of G beginning in 2012.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Last year, besides marking her first-time crossing of the Arctic Circle en route to sailing through the Northwest Passage during the maiden voyage of the HMCS Harry DeWolf, she notched her inaugural circumnavigation of North America. This was the second RCN ship to sail around the continent.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cIt was a once-in-a-lifetime deployment,\u201d said Tubb. Now 27 and beginning her fourth year with the Navy as a public affairs officer, she is back in Ottawa on the issues management and operation desk.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

But she hopes to get out on the water again soon. \u201cI like to think the best is yet to come.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

What she calls her inaugural \u201cadventure\u201d started in early August when she travelled to Iqualuit in Nunavut. There she met the vessel with its crew of about 80 people.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cWe were introducing a new class of arctic and offshore patrol ship to Canada\u2019s Northern regions,\u201d said Tubb, whose job was to publicize the voyage with Canadians through social media, video and photos.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

She had been on the ship for just over a week when she was charged with helping a CBC television crew headed by Peter Mansbridge to film a documentary of the Arctic. Tubb also led production of the Navy\u2019s own documentary about the voyage <\/a>called Into the North<\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

As part of Operation NANOOK, Canada\u2019s signature Arctic exercise that included Canadian and American Coast Guard vessels, the ship visited Indigenous communities, including Pond Inlet and Cambridge Bay. Tubb helped run ship tours for community members.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Retracing the Franklin expedition’s footsteps<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

\u201cWe\u2019re there to serve Canadians, to conduct presence patrols in the Arctic, and to fortify our close partnerships with federal, territorial and local communities.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Each of the new class of ships is affiliated with various Inuit communities. For HMCS Harry DeWolf, that was the Qikiqtani region of Nunavut.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

One moment during the ship\u2019s passage through the Arctic archipelago resonated with her U of G history studies.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Referring to Sir John Franklin\u2019s mid-1800s attempt to find the Northwest Passage, she said, \u201cWe traced Franklin\u2019s footsteps.\u201d

She and others visited barren, wind-swept Beechey Island, where three members of the Franklin expedition were buried. Recalling the bleak surroundings and a hike over difficult terrain, she said, \u201cYou start to appreciate what those men went through. You can\u2019t help feeling helpless for their situation, after struggling up that mountain, feeling the brittle rocks crack beneath your feet \u2013 their wintering place could not sustain them.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n

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Its inaugural voyage took HMCS Harry DeWolf through the Canadian Arctic before heading for the Caribbean. Photo: Canadian Armed Forces.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

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After negotiating the Arctic, the ship continued down the western flank of North America to the Caribbean. There, the crew worked again with U.S. Coast Guard partners on Operation CARIBBE to counter illicit drug trafficking.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Conducting drug busts in Caribbean <\/h2>\n\n\n\n

The team apprehended two small vessels transporting a total of more than 2,500 kilograms of contraband cocaine. Observing the activity from the deck of the patrol vessel, Tubb kept busy recording everything she could to tell the story later \u2013 and even donned gloves to help remove the narcotics from the boats.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cAs the public affairs officer, I\u2019m there on the bridge, taking notes, using my GoPro camera, hearing the voices of my friends crackling over the radio \u2013 and in the second event, seeing it unravel quite close by. I was up there with the guys the entire time.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cMy operations officer had to tell me to take care of myself, to go to bed. I didn\u2019t want to miss a minute.\u201d <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Once through the Panama Canal, the ship headed up the Eastern Seaboard and docked in Halifax in early December.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cI joined the military because I wanted a challenge,\u201d said Tubb, whose basic training as well as French-language lessons and public affairs training occurred between 2018 and 2020. \u201cThe idea of service was already in the background.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Her dad is the fire station chief back in Mitchell. Several relatives in her grandparents\u2019 generation served during the Second World War; one great-uncle was in the Navy during the Korean War.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cGiving back to the community was something that really called me.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Attending U of G sharpened her focus.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThe whole idea to join the Forces started at Guelph,\u201d said Tubb. One summer she worked with history professor Dr. Catharine Wilson on her Rural Diary Archive project<\/a>, which helped develop her interest in personal accounts of history and led her to explore Canadian military stories especially.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Self-discovery at U of G <\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Her U of G days also helped her learn about herself.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cI found out more about who I was as a person, my interests and values,\u201d said Tubb. \u201cStories of the military and heroes motivated me to push myself. I wanted to continue my study and storytelling of Canadian heroes.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

She ended up pursuing a personal project to investigate all the names inscribed on the cenotaph in her hometown, and she published a Historical Guelph article about her research on HMCS Guelph, a Second World War vessel.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

On campus, she served as an orientation volunteer, worked for Hospitality Services and played on the University quidditch team <\/a>that competed in nationals in Victoria. \u201cWhenever I see Johnston Hall, Johnston Green and the Portico, I always picture it with quidditch in the background.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

After graduating in 2016, she completed a master\u2019s degree at the University of Waterloo, studying the lives of workers at a wartime munitions factory in Ajax, Ont.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

For last year\u2019s deployment, she took along a Guelph Gryphons flag that found good use after one American naval officer flashed his own varsity colours. \u201cI couldn\u2019t let that go unanswered, I had to show the Gryphon off,\u201d Tubb laughed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cOur coxswain had said we could consider bringing something from home. The first thing I thought of was my U of G flag. It\u2019s come with me to Victoria, to basic training \u2013 it\u2019s my good luck charm.\u201d <\/p>\n\n\n\n

She lives in Ottawa with her partner, Christine McPhail, who studied nutrition at U of G for her undergraduate and master\u2019s degrees.<\/p>\n\n\n

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The crest of HMCS Harry DeWolf was affixed to a wooden monument on Beechey Island. Photo: Lisa Tubb.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n

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