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Repair delays leave Canada without operational subs

6/24/2008

Ten years after buying four Victoria-class (Upholder) diesel-electric submarines from the UK, the Canadian Navy is again without an operational underwater unit.

Two boats, HMCS Victoria and HMCS Windsor, are undergoing extended docking work periods, which are taking longer than anticipated and will not be completed until late 2009.

The oldest of the quartet, HMCS Chicoutimi, is also in dry dock, awaiting repairs after a fire during its transatlantic crossing in 2004. The repairs are scheduled for 2010 and will not be finished before 2012.

HMCS Corner Brook is due to complete a work period in the third quarter of 2008, when it will be the navy's sole operational submarine for the next year and a half.

This is far below Ottawa's expectations when the acquisition of the 2,455-ton Type 2400 submarines was announced in April 1998. At that time, the cost was put at CAD750 million (USD734 million), although by 2003 the figure had risen to CAD897 million. 159 of 407 Words

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