Canada's submarine fleet has a "spotty" history and while HMCS Corner Brook's crash was "unfortunate," no one was in danger and the damage will be repaired, Defence Minister Peter MacKay said Tuesday.
The Canadian navy's British Columbia-based HMCS Chicoutimi will be operational by early next year, says a report by Canadian Press. Vice-Admiral Mark Norman said a problem with some of the welding on ...
WHEN Canada paid Britain C$750m (then around $500m) for four lightly used, diesel-electric submarines in 1998, it looked like a bargain. The vessels cost more than double that to build, and had only ...
Investigators probing the major electrical fire that crippled HMCS Chicoutimi are focusing on flawed insulation encasing a connection in a high-voltage cable running underneath the floor of the ...
FASLANE, SCOTLAND: This photograph obtained 12 October 2004 from the Canadian Navy shows the British-built HMCS Chicoutimi being helped to a jetty by two British Royal Navy tug boats 10 October 2004 ...
FASLANE, Scotland — A Canadian submarine that was disabled by fire arrived in this Scottish port Sunday after being towed across rough north Atlantic seas. An electrical fire crippled the HMCS ...
HMCS Windsor transits from the U.K. to her home port in Halifax, Nova Scotia in 2001. Canadian Navy Photo Canada’s Victoria-class submarine fleet has been controversial since its inception. Most ...
A potentially cancer-causing substance called Peridite was among the materials that burned during a deadly electrical fire on a Canadian submarine at sea almost four years ago. In the past, the navy ...