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Summary and Key Points: At RIMPAC 2026, Canada’s Victoria-class submarine HMCS Corner Brook sank the decommissioned Ticonderoga-class cruiser USS Mobile Bay with a single...
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Summary and Key Points: At RIMPAC 2026, Canada’s Victoria-class submarine HMCS Corner Brook sank the decommissioned Ticonderoga-class cruiser USS Mobile Bay with a single...
On July 12, 2026, north of Kauai, HMCS Corner Brook, a submarine Britain laid up in 1994 and transferred to Canada for a nominal...
Canada has the world's longest coastline and four secondhand Victoria-class subs designed in the 1980s. In 2023 only HMCS Windsor went to sea, for...
Canada's diesel Victoria-class submarines were purchased from the UK and could well have served in the Royal Navy. While having some impressive features, they...
The Royal Canadian Navy lists the Victoria-class complement at 48 crew plus 11 trainees per boat. TKMS puts the Type 212CD core crew at...
Britain used them four years and let them go for a pound each. Canada spent twenty years and most of a billion dollars making...
Victoria-Class sub Corner Brook grounded while submerged near Vancouver Island in 2011, damaging her bow and sonar and requiring years of repairs. A fire...
Britain retired four nearly new Upholder submarines after the Soviet threat collapsed and the Royal Navy chose an all-nuclear fleet. Canada’s nominal £1 title...
On 12 July 2026, during RIMPAC, HMCS Corner Brook fired an Mk 48 heavyweight torpedo and delivered the final strike that sank the decommissioned...
Canada's chosen Type 212CD is engineered to vanish — a stealth-fighter-faceted hull, steel that barely registers on magnetic detectors, and weeks submerged on fuel...