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<\/a><\/div>\nIn Incidents – the year began in an eventful manor. January brought the tow issues with HMCS Athabaskan<\/a>. The Tug Craig Trans<\/a> was abandoned in Halifax, The Lubov Orlova<\/a> also broke her tow, and is presumed sunk.<\/p>\n In Service news, March brought the announcement of the New G6 Service<\/a>. November brought a signed Yarmouth ferry deal<\/a><\/p>\n \nSeveral new ships joined the Canadian Fleet – Scunda Bought Scotia Sea<\/a>, Degagnes bought Bella Degagnes<\/a>, and Atlantic towing Bought Atlantic Merlin<\/a> for 2014 Delivery. HRM also Bought a New Ferry<\/a> for april 2014 Delivery. Oceanex took delivery of the Connaigra<\/a>.<\/p>\n New Cranes Arrived<\/a> at Halterm in August. The Dartmouth Refinery Shutdown, and Converted to a terminal in the fall, after a June announcement<\/a>. The CSS Acadia turned 100<\/a>, and Shell spent the sumer looking for offshore oil<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" 2013 was a good year. we had the most readers yet, and set records for page views in a month and a single day. In<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1025","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rescuenotes.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1025"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rescuenotes.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rescuenotes.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rescuenotes.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rescuenotes.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1025"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rescuenotes.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1025\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rescuenotes.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1025"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rescuenotes.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1025"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rescuenotes.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1025"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}<\/a>At Halifax Shipyard, The Hero Class program <\/a>continued, with launched.<\/a> the FELEX refits<\/a> continued, and the AOPS Design Contracts <\/a>were signed. the Joint Support Ship design was chosen<\/a> and the ships named<\/a>. The Expansion Also continued, with new piers, and Parking grarage, and the removal of older assembly buildings.
\nseveral vessels being<\/p>\n<\/a>April brought the french warship FS Aquitaine<\/a>. the year was light in ship visits, with a few USCGnorthland<\/a>, Seneca<\/a>, Morrow Bay<\/a>, and Eagle<\/a>) Visits early in the year. The german Navy research vessel FGS Planet<\/a> visited, as did the JMSDF training Squadron<\/a>, and Royal Navy Survey Vessel HMS Scott<\/a>. the sole US Navy visitor was USS Nicholas<\/a>, likely due to the American Budget situation<\/p>\n<\/a><\/div>\n