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UER Forum > Canada: Alberta / BC > HMCS COWICHAN (3rd) (Viewed 3549 times)
brandon250 


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HMCS COWICHAN (3rd)
< on 5/18/2015 8:05 AM >
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j-vic and I checked out this cool piece of naval history!

She was a minesweeper built by Yarrows ltd in Esquimalt, commissioned December 12 1957 and served until august 22 1997.
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Luigi 


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< Reply # 1 on 5/18/2015 10:03 PM >
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That's awesome, very interesting ghost ship.




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< Reply # 2 on 5/19/2015 4:38 AM >
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Oh, that is interesting. Nice find.




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< Reply # 3 on 5/19/2015 3:29 PM >
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fascinating! great set




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< Reply # 4 on 5/22/2015 3:41 PM >
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Very, very nice.

I live in Halifax and I'm incredibly jealous that you guys get all the boats out there. I guess we build them here, and they get dumped out there. Looks like I'll have to plan a trip to the west coast again soon...



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< Reply # 5 on 5/22/2015 9:33 PM >
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Oh man, this is cool! And she doesn't appear to be very badly decayed inside...I wonder how much work she'd need to make way under her own power?




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< Reply # 6 on 5/23/2015 12:17 AM >
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It looked like someone was in the middle of restoring it and then just up and abandoned it at some point. I don't know anything about engines, but it appeared that everything was still there and not in bad shape.
It was my first time exploring a boat of any sort and it was pretty exciting. We will definitely be going back with a better camera.




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< Reply # 7 on 5/23/2015 5:27 AM >
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Thanks guys, it was really cool to check out!

It was a bummer my phone was almost dead so i didn't have a flash with any of the pictures, like j-vic said will have to return with proper cameras.

as for it ever being sea worthy again I doubt it. I'm pretty sure she was sitting on the bottom, most of the hull was full of water. Would take a lot of money and resource to get her going again.

Heres a cool picture of it when it was operational.

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