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Tuesday, April 10, 2012

Sub in refit to get wet for first time in 5 years

[HMCS Windsor]HMCS Windsor, the submarine undergoing a multimillion-dollar refit in Halifax, will touch water Wednesday morning for the first time in five years, The Chronicle Herald has learned.

"This is a huge milestone," military affairs writer Tim Dunne said in an interview Monday about the Windsor’s undocking.

The process is to begin at 6 a.m., with the boat being lowered extremely slowly into Halifax Harbour over a six-hour period that’s set to coincide with the tide going out. It will be 20 years almost to the day since the Royal Navy launched the submarine as HMS Unicorn on April 16, 1992.

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