Arctic and offshore patrol vessel HMCS Max Bernays arrives in CFB Esquimalt [Video]

Joy and Josephine Brandle have been waiting three-and-a-half months for this moment.

“We’re waiting for my dad because I miss him very much,” said Josephine Brandle, whose father is in the Royal Canadian Navy.

Her father is a leading sailor onboard Canada’s newest vessel, HMCS Max Bernays. On Monday it made its way into its new home at CFB Esquimalt after a long journey from Halifax that began on March 11.

“He doesn’t know we’re here,” said Joy Brandle, Josephine’s mother. “He thought I was working and she was in school.”

HMCS Max Bernays is one of two arctic and offshore patrol vessels that will be stationed in Esquimalt.

“This is a patrol vessel but it’s an armed patrol vessel and this gives us a sixth hull that we can go out and do various operations,” said Commodore David Mazur, commander of Canadian Fleet Pacific.

The ship’s main function will …