Survivors of a deadly explosion and fire aboard HMCS Kootenay gathered in Halifax on Wednesday to remember those who died in the worst peacetime disaster in Canadian Naval history. A gearbox ignited ...

Nearly five decades have passed since the deadly explosion aboard HMCS Kootenay — Canada's worst peacetime navy accident — but the memory lives on. Sunday marks the tragedy's 47th anniversary. This ...

Fifty years after the Royal Canadian Navy experienced its worst peacetime disaster, the memory of HMCS Kootenay explosion is continuing to prepare the next generation of Canadian sailors. The Oct. 23, ...

Survivors of the Canadian navy’s worst peacetime accident are finding healing through their shared experience. On Oct. 23, 1969, a gearbox failure caused the explosion in the engine room of the HMCS ...

When Allan Bell showed up for his monthly breakfast with former shipmates of HMCS Kootenay in Dartmouth, N.S., in December, he quickly learned that a number of them were upset about a local newspaper ...

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The widow of a sailor who tried to take his own life 14 years after the HMCS Kootenay explosion killed nine of his crewmates and injured 53 others in October of 1969 has finally won a compensation ...

Halifax—Approximately one hundred survivors and family members of the worst Canadian peacetime naval tragedy onboard HMCS KOOTENAY are meeting Thurs. Oct. 1st at 3:30 p.m. at the Halifax Stanfield ...

Halifax—On Oct 23, 1969, nine sailors were killed and 53 seriously injured when an explosion ripped through the engine of the destroyer HMCS Kootenay, 200 miles west of Plymouth, England in what is ...

It was a little after 8 in the morning. John Webster had just finished his 4 a.m. watch and was settling into toast and coffee in the cafeteria of HMCS Kootenay when, in a single instant, one that ...

HALIFAX—Once a week Hugh MacPhee and about a dozen or so former shipmates gather for coffee, swap stories as old friends do, and sometimes share memories that 42 years on remain as dark as the brew in ...

Nearly five decades have passed since the deadly explosion aboard HMCS Kootenay — Canada's worst peacetime navy accident — but the memory lives on. Sunday marks the tragedy's 47th anniversary. This ...