I did a LORAN-C tour in the New Mexico desert in the 90’s. Right after my tour on the Cherokee. I never got outside of Halifax proper while we were in port. It was a much better port ‘O call than any of us imagined. The Canuks invited us to our sister ship and the Canadians still had drinking on board. We closed down the Chiefs club then went to a local bar that just happened to be Bachman Turner Overdrive’s hometown bar and they let us all in for free and we jammed to BTO till the wee hours of the morning. Next morning it was choppy in the Halifax channel heading out for patrol. As soon as we broke around the jetty it was 30 ft seas and within a half an hour there were 5 of us still alive enough to keep our ship running. Everyone else was down hard or puking their guts out for the next 2 days.
BTO was great!