Beachcombers in British Columbia take note: the navy has lost an expensive practice torpedo that may wash up on shore somewhere.
The three-metre-long torpedo, containing no warhead or explosives, sank unexpectedly in January after it was launched from a military frigate near Victoria, a newly disclosed document shows.
HMCS Vancouver fired the dummy weapon just off the entrance to Esquimalt Harbour to make sure the ship-based firing system was working properly. The frigate has two launching tubes on each side at midship for attacking submarines.
But instead of automatically ejecting its weights and bobbing up to the surface again, the fibreglass cylinder simply sank beneath the waves off Vancouver Island - a "rare occurrence," according to the navy.
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