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The Canadian navy has confirmed that the troubled fleet of submarines purchased from Britain has suffered another fire, slightly more than a year after a blaze crippled HMCS Chicoutimi and led to the death of one sailor.
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The submarine rose to what the navy calls "a safe depth" and extinguished the fire.
No sailors were injured and the Windsor remains at sea.
The vessel is the navy's only operational submarine.
Three other Victoria-class submarines purchased by the Canadian navy from the Royal Navy in 1998 are in repair or retrofit.
In October 2004, a fire broke out on Chicoutimi as it was crossing the Atlantic, leading to the death of Lieut. Chris Saunders and injuring eight others.
Fire on 2nd Canadian sub
What kind of crap did we buy?
Originally posted by deltaboy
those Upholder class submarines are a good buy. the boats use to be for the Royal Navy so the Brits would not sale some sorry boats if they did not use it for themselves for awhile.
Originally posted by stumason
Well, to be honest, they never entered service.
Originally posted by deltaboy
Originally posted by stumason
Well, to be honest, they never entered service.
they did entered service for the Royal Navy. just not for a long time though. dont know if dat was a good decision after just building the rest of the subs.
But within months it was soon revealed that HMS UPHOLDER, the first of class, had problems with her bow doors. Water had poured in during trials off the west coast of Scotland when the tubes were opened. This problem' later transpired to be a design fault which prevented UPHOLDER from firing any missile or torpedoes.
When HMS UPHOLDER eventually entered service in 1989, she was already a year late into service and had the distinction of being the first fighting vessel to join the fleet which could not, albeit for technical reasons, fire a shot in anger - her doors were sealed awaiting a refit to repair the problem.
At the time the Government had plans to build seven Upholders, but the initial option was scrapped and finally just four entered service. Projected in service completion costs had been forecast at £500 million. But by the time all four had undergone a refit to rectify the tube problem', the figure soared to £900 million.
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These vessels are packed with technology and are still widely regarded as being among the best of their type in the world, but despite serious misgivings from senior officers concerned about the decision to sell off the Upholders, they were withdrawn and berthed at Barrow in Furness to await a buyer.
Originally posted by sardion2000
We need more boats to patrol the coasts not Subs or Amphibious attack vehicles. It's going to have to be done if Global Warming truely does open up our third coast.
Originally posted by Winchester Ranger T
Should have purchased those new U-212 class subs from Germany, I believe they are regarded as the non-nuke attack sub class leader.
If the Germans build it, you can be sure it will work as advertised, their engineering skills are incredible.