HMCS Somers Isles to do during the war once activated. By May 1945, 119 Canadian ships had passed through the facility. Towards the end of the war, the base was used to prepare frigates for service in the Pacific theatre. The RCN abandoned HMCS "Somers Isles" at the end of the war, one of eleven facilities that was disbanded by March 1946. Prior to closure, the RCN had intended to keep four motor launches at "Somers Isles" for target practice, but this idea was abandoned when the base was shuttered and the motor launches were deemed obsolete. HMCS Somers Isles HMCS "Somers Isles"
Ptichy Island (Shantar Islands) a large colony of spectacled guillemots on the island, as well as a smaller nesting colony of thick-billed murres. Ptichy Island (Shantar Islands) Ptichy Island (, "Ostrov Ptichy", meaning "Bird Island") is a small island in the Sea of Okhotsk. Ptichy Island is one of the Shantar Islands. It lies between the southwest point of Bolshoy Shantar and Cape Bol'shoy Dugandzha on the mainland. It is a little over 1.6 km (1 mi) in length and rises to a height of 290 m (951 ft). Between 1857 and 1885, American whaleships cruised for bowhead whales off Ptichiy. They called it