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Wednesday, July 30, 2014

Royal Canadian Navy navigating rough seas

HMCS AlgonquinThese are difficult times for the Royal Canadian Navy.

Earlier this month, Canada's top sailor, Vice-Admiral Mark Norman, ordered HMCS Whitehorse home to Canadian Forces Base Esquimalt, B.C., from a mine-sweeping drill near San Diego that is part of the Hawaii-based Rim of the Pacific (RIMPAC) exercise because of a series of incidents involving misbehaviour by its crew.

The navy lost its West Coast flagship, HMCS Algonquin, when the 40-yearold destroyer collided with HMCS Protecteur during a towing exercise last year. Algonquin remains tied up because rust has made it unseaworthy.

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