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HMCS ONTARIO
Photos Submitted by Ken Johnson

HMCS Ontario, Engine Room Photos, 1945.

I never entered an engine room or boiler room during my time in the Navy, so my knowledge of what's happening in the photos below is zero. I've been told that the temperature in a boiler room regularly reached 120° F or more, thus the sweat and scanty clothing on the men.

Royal Canadian Navy : HMCS Ontario, 1945.

Negative #ON-0198-2: This seems to be the main control area of the engine room.


Royal Canadian Navy : HMCS Ontario, 1945.

Negative #ON-0198-4: Two officers in the engine room; the one on the right is a Lieutenant.


Royal Canadian Navy : HMCS Ontario, 1945.

Negative #ON-0198-3: A Petty Officer on the left and a Commander, Captain, or Commodore on the right.


Royal Canadian Navy : HMCS Ontario, 1945.

Negative #ON-0197-2: Stokers in the engine room.


Royal Canadian Navy : HMCS Ontario, 1945.

Negative ON-0197-1 : Stokers in the engine room. Doing what?


Royal Canadian Navy : HMCS Ontario, 1945.

Negative ON-0198-5 : Stoker in the engine room. Doing what?


Royal Canadian Navy : HMCS Ontario, 1945.

Negative ON-0195 : Stokers in the engine room. The man on the left is holding a small oil can.
Evidently the nickname of the man on the right was "Chesty".


Royal Canadian Navy : HMCS Ontario, 1945.

Negative ON-0198 : Stoker in the engine room.


Royal Canadian Navy : HMCS Ontario, 1945.

Negative ON-0188 : Blacksmithing in the engine room.

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