{"id":1996,"date":"2009-10-23T13:00:00","date_gmt":"2009-10-23T13:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rescuenotes.ca\/?p=1996"},"modified":"2009-10-23T13:00:00","modified_gmt":"2009-10-23T13:00:00","slug":"the-hmcs-kootenay-explosion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rescuenotes.ca\/?p=1996","title":{"rendered":"The HMCS Kootenay explosion"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/img\/b\/R29vZ2xl\/AVvXsEgrcBEJyMuvelTA9ryq8PNiaNuMxLMrBug3bJOD8RPnnA0EaTHJNa0d7cb-CKUAfZZ6f_TXZ-1HzpgPU-cAamG_7QtCRjRW_hOeoZIpIX4H_AJyeq0cGEqLsk4rJeUBpF3vIh_-Jvpa_DOM\/s1600-h\/kootenay.gif\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 162px; height: 200px;\" src=\"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/img\/b\/R29vZ2xl\/AVvXsEgrcBEJyMuvelTA9ryq8PNiaNuMxLMrBug3bJOD8RPnnA0EaTHJNa0d7cb-CKUAfZZ6f_TXZ-1HzpgPU-cAamG_7QtCRjRW_hOeoZIpIX4H_AJyeq0cGEqLsk4rJeUBpF3vIh_-Jvpa_DOM\/s200\/kootenay.gif\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\"id=\"BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5395780257929089826\" \/><\/a> 40 years ago today, one of the worst Canada&#8217;s worst peacetime naval tragities occured. During A routine high speed pass, HMCS Kootenay suffered a gearbox explosion killing 9 crew, and injuring several more.<\/p>\n<p>Addtional Coverage and Background:<br \/><a href=\"http:\/\/archives.cbc.ca\/war_conflict\/defence\/clips\/17159\/\">CBC Archive Footage of Kootenay (with Saguney and Bonaventure <\/a><br \/><a href=\"http:\/\/www.cbc.ca\/world\/story\/2009\/10\/02\/hmcs-kootenay-survivors.html\">HMCS Kootenay survivors mark 40th anniversary<\/a><br \/><a href=\"http:\/\/www.hazegray.org\/navhist\/canada\/postwar\/restigou\/kootenay-explosion\/\">Hazegray&#8217;s Account of the Explosion<\/a><br \/><a href=\"http:\/\/www.cbc.ca\/canada\/story\/2009\/10\/20\/f-kootenay-explosion.html\">Taking stock of Canada&#8217;s worst peacetime naval disaster<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>40 years ago today, one of the worst Canada&#8217;s worst peacetime naval tragities occured. During A routine high speed pass, HMCS Kootenay suffered a gearbox<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[70,41],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1996","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-history","category-navy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rescuenotes.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1996"}],"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=1996"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rescuenotes.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1996\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rescuenotes.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1996"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rescuenotes.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1996"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rescuenotes.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1996"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}