A day trip on board Patrol Frigate HMCS Toronto, July 13, 2005

Bridge

20mm Vulcan-Phalanx close-defence anti-missile system (3,000 RPM!)

Firing .50-cal shots across the bow of the Canadian coast guard vessel Samuel Risley, as part of mock-hostile boarding exercise

A boarding party departs for the Samuel Risley .... (see just below)

Fellow Postie Chris Wattie and son

A predictable scene below decks (this is about all they let me photograph inside the ship. Sorry: No ops-room shots)

CF-18 on fly-by

Got the pilot in this one

Aurora long-range patrol plane on fly-by

At 1/1,250 shutter speed, was able to get propellers in frame without much blur

Even sharper at 1/1,600