HMCS Ojibwa, HMCS Okanagan and ex-HMS Olympus docked in Halifax
History
Canada
Name
Okanagan
Namesake
Okanagan First Nations people
Builder
Chatham Dockyard, Chatham
Laid down
25 March 1965
Launched
17 September 1966
Commissioned
22 June 1968
Decommissioned
14 September 1998
Motto
Ex imo mari ad victoriam
("From the depths of the sea to victory")
Fate
Scrapped in 2011
Badge
Blazon Or, issuing out of a base barry wavy of four azure and argent, a marine monster "Ogopogo" gules, langued of the second. the first Parliament of Upper Canada in 1792, both proper.[1]
HMCS Okanagan (S74) was an Oberon-class submarine that served in the Canadian Forces (CF). She entered service in 1968 and spent the majority of her career on the east coast. The ship was paid off in 1998 and sold for scrap in 2011.
HMCSOkanagan (S74) was an Oberon-class submarine that served in the Canadian Forces (CF). She entered service in 1968 and spent the majority of her career...
recorder (CVR) and flight data recorder (FDR) were found by the submarine HMCSOkanagan using sonar to detect the underwater locator beacon signals and were...
HMCS Ojibwa is an Oberon-class submarine that served in the Royal Canadian Navy (RCN) and later the Canadian Forces Maritime Command (MARCOM). Originally...
July 1973, she was involved in a collision with the Canadian submarine HMCSOkanagan resulting in the need to dry dock in Govan for repairs. Between 17 June...
sold as museum ship (HMCS Ojibwa (S72) and HMCS Onondaga (S73)) and 3 scrapped (HMS Olympus (S12), HMS Osiris (S13), HMCSOkanagan (S74)) Tench-class submarine...
Canadian Forces in 1970. He became Commanding Officer of the submarine HMCSOkanagan in 1982. He went on to be Director Maritime Force Development in the...
launched at Barrow-in-Furness. 17 September – Oberon class submarine HMCSOkanagan launched at Chatham Dockyard, the last warship to be built there. 19...
Shearwater and commonly referred to as CFB Shearwater and formerly named HMCS Shearwater, is a Canadian Forces facility located 4.5 nautical miles (8.3 km;...
Thunder 1994–1999 North Shore Indians (transferred to Kelowna) 2000–2001 Okanagan Thunder (transferred to North Vancouver) 2002–2003 North Shore Thunder...
largest vessels built by VMD. Hull 58 HMCS Terra Nova (DDE 259) – 1959 Restigouche-class destroyer Hull 87 HMCS Saskatchewan (DDE 262) – 1959–1961 Mackenzie-class...
the Stadacona Band of Maritime Forces Atlantic. Known originally as the HMCS Naden Band, it was formed from auditioned in Victoria and Vancouver. It was...
Boundary RD Nanaimo RD New Westminster North Okanagan RD North Shore Northern/Central BC Interior Okanagan-Similkameen RD Squamish-Lillooet RD Strathcona...
wartime role. In 1953, naval air squadron VC 921 was formed as a tender to HMCS Cataraqui, and used the airport. The unit operated Harvards and one C-45D...
launch of SS Sicamous and SS Naramata, two steamships that operated on Okanagan Lake, British Columbia. The company built many ships over next years, including...
raiders attacking coastal shipping. The old Royal Canadian Navy cruiser HMCS Rainbow was dispatched south in early August from Vancouver to cover the...
home to the Salishan language groups such as the Shuswap (Secwepemc), Okanagan and southern Athabaskan language groups, primarily the Dakelh (Carrier)...
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