The Royal Canadian Navy is a blue-water navy - it travels around the world to play a number of roles to further Canadian foreign policy goals. It conducts operations, often with allies, such as counter-terrorism, counter-narcotics, disaster relief and capacity-building operations, as well as war-fighting exercises. What ships/boats does the […]
MV Asterix
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On 23 January 2018 at 3 am, sirens wailed, warnings were broadcast and evacuations began. Coastal British Columbia was in the path of a tsunami. A 7.9 magnitude earthquake off the coast of Alaska caused Environment Canada to issue a tsunami warning. The warning was cancelled three hours later. As […]
Jon Rosamond, writing for IHS Jane’s Navy International, has an article entitled “Canada turns to Asterix for stop gap at-sea support.” The article was published on 04 October 2015. Rosamond confirms that the identity of the ship is MV Asterix. The website MarineTraffic.com reports her current position as Quebec City, […]
It is reasonable that the Department of National Defence1 (DND) is considering (conducting a "staff check," to use military language as also used by an interviewee in a television report on this matter) the transfer of systems and parts from current Royal Canadian Navy (RCN) ships to future ships. Warship […]