A warship left Halifax on Wednesday for a six-month tour of duty that will involve everything from patrolling off Norway to responding to a hypothetical volcanic eruption in West Africa.
HMCS Athabaskan will join the Standing NATO Response Force Maritime Group 1 in Kiel, Germany. On Jan. 26, the destroyer will become the flagship for the squadron of Canadian, American, German, Portuguese and Polish vessels.
The ships are part of NATO’s rapid reaction force that "could be called upon to be the first reaction element to go to a disaster," said Commodore Denis Rouleau, who will fly to Germany to take command of the fleet.
They could be sent into anything from "full-out combat" to humanitarian operations such as the navy’s recent cleanup efforts on the U.S. Gulf Coast after hurricane Katrina.
The warships could also be used to stop and search civilian vessels in the Mediterranean during three scheduled trips into the area, he said.
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