[CPEO-MEF] MUNITIONS, GLOBAL: "oyal Canadian Navy divers check shipwreck for unexploded shells and other ordnance"

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

Royal Canadian Navy divers check shipwreck for unexploded shells and other ordnance

by David Pugliese
Ottawa Citizen (ONT)
March 8, 2017

Divers from Maritime Forces Pacific’s Fleet Diving Unit are working on the wreck of HMCS Thiepval off the Broken Island Chain of British Columbia. The diving unit is conducting a reconnaissance survey for any unexploded ordnance on the site.

HMCS Thiepval was a 44 meter-long Battle class trawler, built in Kingston, Ontario in 1917 and commissioned into the Navy in the final months of the First World War, according to the Royal Canadian Navy. It was transferred to Esquimalt in 1919 and was engaged in a variety of patrol activities throughout the Pacific Northwest. 

The ship sank on February 27, 1930 after it struck an uncharted rock during a patrol in Barkley Sound, between Turret and Turtle Islands (part of the Broken Islands group) off the coast of B.C., according to the RCN.

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For the entire article, see
http://ottawacitizen.com/news/national/defence-watch/royal-canadian-navy-divers-check-shipwreck-for-unexploded-shells-and-other-ordnance

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Lenny Siegel
Executive Director
Center for Public Environmental Oversight
a project of the Pacific Studies Center
P.O. Box 998, Mountain View, CA 94042
Voice/Fax: 650/961-8918 
<lsiegel@cpeo.org>
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