{"id":1590,"date":"2012-07-12T16:19:00","date_gmt":"2012-07-12T16:19:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rescuenotes.ca\/?p=1590"},"modified":"2012-07-12T16:19:00","modified_gmt":"2012-07-12T16:19:00","slug":"usns-grapple-update","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rescuenotes.ca\/?p=1590","title":{"rendered":"USNS Grapple Update"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>USNS Grapple paid a visit to Halifax earlier this month. When She left, she gave a &#8220;random&#8221; (ie not a major port) destination in Quebec. It now appears that she was tasked with the recovery of remains of the aircrew of a PBY <span>5A Catalina Aircraft <\/span><span>which went down in November 1942 off the coast of Longue-Pointe-de-Mingan, on the north shore of the St. Lawrence River.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Parks Canada Discovered the aircraft in 2009. You can read more about the Recvoery at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pc.gc.ca\/culture\/proj\/dpc-pcd\/index_e.asp\">PC.GC.CA<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>One of the primary roles for Catalina Aircraft (And the Canadian version, the Canso) was anti-submarine warfare. the PBY was likely patroling the Gulf of St Lawerence when it went down.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>USNS Grapple paid a visit to Halifax earlier this month. When She left, she gave a &#8220;random&#8221; (ie not a major port) destination in Quebec.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[70,111,60],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1590","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-history","category-usn","category-visiting-ship"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rescuenotes.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1590"}],"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=1590"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rescuenotes.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1590\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rescuenotes.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1590"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rescuenotes.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1590"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rescuenotes.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1590"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}