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  HMCS Victoria (SSK 876) - Wikipedia Light!   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
HMCS Victoria (SSK 876) is a long-range hunter-killer (SSK) submarine of the Canadian Navy, the lead ship of her class.
HMCS Victoria's displacement is approximately 2,200 tons surfaced and 2,400 tons submerged.
HMCS Victoria's SONAR sets allow her to locate and track ships and other submarines “passively”, that is without transmitting on active sonar and thus giving way her location.
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 HMCS Victoria   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
The Noun Victoria as Subject (ACTA Universitatis Upsaliensis)
Renaissance Latin Drama in England: Abraham Fraunce or H. Hickman, Hymenaeus; Abraham Fraunce, Victoria; Laelia (Renaissance Latin Drama in England)
Muscarine, Music of Finland, Ray Walston, Geranium x magnificum, Rose is a rose is a rose is a rose.
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 HMCS Victoria
HMCS Victoria is a submarine in the Canadian Forces' Maritime Command, the lead ship of her class.
She is named after the city of Victoria, British Columbia.
Wapipedia > Index > H > HM > HMCS Victoria
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 Hmcs
HMCS Asbestos (K 358) HMCS Atholl (K 15) HMCS Beauharnois (K 540) HMCS Belleville (K 332) HMCS Brampton.
HMCS ANTIGONISH 1944 may be Ingonish J 69, many differ over this one...
Her Majesty's Court Service (HMCS) was set up in April 2005 to integrate the running of magistrates' courts, Crown courts and country courts as well as the Royal Courts of Justice.
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 Maritime Disasters of WWII 1939, 1940, 1941
Auxiliary cruiser of 16,402 tons, formerly the liner SS Montrose which was requisitioned as an Armed Merchant Cruiser in 1939 and renamed Forfar.
Wanklyn was awarded the Victoria Cross in recognition of this.
Two German transports of 2,931 tons and 8,561 tons respectively, and part of a troop carrying convoy, were sunk by torpedoes from a British submarine west of Seloen Island, Norway.
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HMCS Victoria finalized her Canadianization in early 2003 and completed her transit to the west coast of Canada in August 2003.
Currently implementing recommendations from the HMCS Chicoutimi board of inquiry, HMCS Windsor is expected to return to sea June 2005.
HMCS Corner Brook started her Canadianization work in Halifax on 5 January 2004.
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 Cruise ship news and shipping reports at MARITIME MATTERS.COM
I wish her peace in the afterlife and may she be enjoyed there a complement of dearly departed and appreciative past passengers and crew.
Ophelia, the 15th named storm of the season, was almost stationary and centred 135 kilometres east-northeast of Cape Canaveral at noon September 7.
September 8: The latest word from Chinese sources is that the damaged 1960 built 42,000 gt SS ORIANA, following removal of her interior fittings, is undergoing complete demolition at the Zhangjiagang shipyard and will not be continuing onward to Alang for final scrapping, after all.
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 :::► Dictionary of Meaning www.mauspfeil.net ◄:::   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
These vessels nevertheless always have a small battery and diesel engine/generator installation for emergency use should the reactor have to be shut down.
Image:Victoria crosssection submarine.jpg Victoria_class submarine rightthumb250px[[Victoria class submarine''Victoria'' Class submarine cross-section.html" title="Meaning of ''Victoria'' Class.html" title="Meaning of rightthumb250px[[Victoria class submarine''Victoria'' Class">rightthumb250px[[Victoria class submarine''Victoria'' Class submarine cross-section">''Victoria'' Class.html" title="Meaning of rightthumb250px[[Victoria class submarine''Victoria'' Class">rightthumb250px[[Victoria class submarine''Victoria'' Class submarine cross-section Anaerobic propulsion was employed by the first mechanically driven submarine Ictineo Ictineo II in 1864.
Ictineo's engine used a chemical mix containing a peroxide compound, that generated heat for steam propulsion while at the same time solved the problem of oxygen renovation in an hermetic container for breathing purposes.
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 Helicopter sent to aid submarine
Victoria will be based at Esquimalt, the others at Halifax.
All Oberon class boats have now been discarded.
Builders: Cammel Laird, Birkenhead, UK, except SS 879 by VSEL, Barrow-in-Furness, UK.
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 Sale 167
Pencil note on label says from S/S Porteath (?) lost in North sea during Blockade with all hands.
Christmas card envelope with corner card HMCS PROTECTEUR COMMANDING Officer with improvised ship seal and FMO Victoria 6/1/99 cancel with message from Commanding Officer on commercial card.2 smaller cards with messages with no corner card and UN 1999-12-30 and 2000-01010 cancels.
Also #10 STAVNAVFORLANT Official envelope with letter from Commander with 1999 HMCS 282 and FMO Halifax cancels.
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 Submarine - ExampleProblems.com   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
Operating a submarine is dangerous, even in peacetime; many submarines have been lost in accidents (see history, below).
Non-strategic military or attack submarines may be divided in two general types: Nuclear (what the U.S. calls a fast-attack submarine; SSN) or diesel-electric (SS).
Nuclear powered submarines are faster and larger, and have more firepower, carrying capacity and longer mission endurance than the diesel-electric submarine.
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 Ships
They were built in Canada for the RN, given Canadian names by the RN and commissioned in and manned by the RN.
October 1947, sunk where she sunk HMCS ESQUIMALT
Became a Museum in Quebec City in 1982
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Underwater archeologists at the center completed their examination of evidence obtained in June by Navy divers from USS Salvor (ARS 52) and Mobile Diving and Salvage Unit 1, both based in Pearl Harbor.
PEARL HARBOR, Hawaii (NNS) -- Families of crew members serving on the ill-fated World War II submarine USS Lagarto (SS 371) will gather May 6 in Manitowoc, Wis., to honor the men whose submarine went missing six decades ago and was only recently located by divers.
Jeffrey B. Cassias, commander of the U.S. Pacific Fleet's submarine force, will serve as the keynote speaker at the ceremony held at the Wisconsin Maritime Museum in Manitowoc, where Lagarto was built.
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