Nautical Research Journal white paint.
I built all the bridge fi xtures before any more installation work, starting with the wooden compass house. Besides the Asdic equipment and magnetic compass there was a small chart table built into a metal extension in the aſt wall for the offi cer of the watch to plot the ship’s movements. I built this the same as the wheelhouse, so I will not describe the procedure again except to say the roof is also wooden planks. An added extension supported the direction fi nder antenna clear of the radar. (Figures 113 and 114) T e house was fi nished with Chicoutimi’s pennant numbers decaled onto the roof, and an access ladder. (Figure 115) T e binnacle was a modifi ed Billings part, and I built the Asdic recorder to match photographs in my references. T e wheel on the binnacle rotated the Asdic dome under
the ship via a mechanical linkage, and also gave the bearing to the target. T e recorder gave the range to any echoes returned by the system. T e direction fi nder antenna was a modifi ed Aeronaut part on a scratch-built support. T e hooded binnacle, another modifi ed Billings part, was installed on the forward bridge extension in 1943. Figure 116 shows this equipment and the bridge voice pipes.
T e navigation lights originally were attached to the 175
122. T e 20-millimeter cannons ready for installation.
124. T e bridge dodger being trial fi tted during fabrication. It is stepped higher than the bridge railing.
123. One of the Calgary Naval Museum’s Oerlikon cannons on a World War II-era pedestal.
125. T e fi nished dodger installed on the ship.
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