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Tuesday, April 08, 2014

HMCS Athabaskan left with six punctures after tugboat crash, navy report says

HMCS AthabaskanA navy destroyer was left with six punctures when a tugboat crashed into it, and then four lines snapped one after another as the warship was being towed from Ontario to Nova Scotia, a military report says.

Details of the collision and subsequent line ruptures are contained in an investigation of HMCS Athabaskan's tow to Halifax after it underwent a $21.7 million refit in St. Catharines, Ont.

The series of incidents took place between Boxing Day and Dec. 30 of 2012 in the Gulf of St. Lawrence and off the coast of Cape Breton.

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