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HMCS Corner Brook (SSK 878) is a long-range hunter-killer submarine (SSK) of the Royal Canadian Navy. She is the former Royal Navy Upholder-class submarine HMS Ursula (S42), purchased from the British at the end of the Cold War. She is the third boat of the Victoria class and is named after the city of Corner Brook, Newfoundland.
HMCS Corner Brook entering St. John's harbour, Newfoundland. The Victoria class are British-built diesel-electric fleet submarines designed in the late 1970s to supplement the Royal Navy's nuclear submarine force. They were decommissioned at the end of the Cold War. In 1998, Canada purchased the submarines to replace the aging Oberon-class ...
HMCS Corner Brook passing Fort Amherst and entering St. John's Harbour, c. 2006 On 15 January 2007, Windsor began the EDWP refit at Halifax. [ 12 ] In 2007 Corner Brook participated in the NATO naval exercise "Joint Warrior", marking the first time in fifteen years that a Canadian submarine had sailed in European waters.
HMCS Corner Brook ran aground in Nootka Sound off the coast of Vancouver Island on 4 June 2011, while conducting SOCT (Submarine Officer Training Course). [22] Minor injuries were sustained by two crew members and the submarine returned to CFB Esquimalt after the incident without escort or further incident. [22]
HMCS Regina (FFH 334) HMCS Calgary (FFH 335) HMCS Winnipeg (FFH 338) HMCS Ottawa (FFH 341) Coastal defence vessels HMCS Nanaimo (MM 702) HMCS Edmonton (MM 703) HMCS Whitehorse (MM 705) HMCS Yellowknife (MM 706) HMCS Saskatoon (MM 709) HMCS Brandon (MM 710) Submarines HMCS Victoria (SSK 876) HMCS Corner Brook (SSK 878)
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With the outbreak of war, Great Britain and Canada planned to significantly expand the RCN. Government and commercial vessels were pressed into naval service, vessels were transferred, loaned or purchased from the Royal Navy, and many smaller vessels were constructed in Canada.
HMCS Rainbow was the first ship with the HMCS designation after being transferred from the British Royal Navy to Canada, commissioned on 4 August 1910. [5] HMCS Haida became the first Canadian ship commissioned under a Queen during March 1952. [6]