Former HMCS Huron sunk in training exercise

[David Winter]

The former HMCS Huron, a 280 Tribal Class Destroyer, was sunk off the coast of BC today as part of an international training exercise.

http://www.canada.com/victoriatimescolo ... eb&k=43510

I served on one of the the Hurons sister ships, the HMCS Athabaskan, in the early 1990's.

As a scuba diver, this would be a great dive, except for the 2000 metre depth part [:(]

[UndercoverNotChickenSalad]

Esquimalt-based HMCS Regina was given the first opportunity to fire on the Huron. Then the warship, stripped and engineless, faced artillery barrages from both Canadian and U.S. vessels and strafing from Canadian CF-18 jets.

Originally, the coup de grace was to be delivered via a torpedo from the USS Topeka submarine. But the artillery barrage had already sent the Huron 2,000 metres down to the bottom of the sea.

A group stomp [8D] Took the whole fleet to send her down. Rumor is she may have been scuttled, not really sunk [X(]