Canada's submarine fleet has a "spotty" history and while HMCS Corner Brook's crash was "unfortunate," no one was in danger and the damage will be repaired, Defence Minister Peter MacKay said Tuesday.

The Canadian navy's British Columbia-based HMCS Chicoutimi will be operational by early next year, says a report by Canadian Press. Vice-Admiral Mark Norman said a problem with some of the welding on ...

WHEN Canada paid Britain C$750m (then around $500m) for four lightly used, diesel-electric submarines in 1998, it looked like a bargain. The vessels cost more than double that to build, and had only ...

Investigators probing the major electrical fire that crippled HMCS Chicoutimi are focusing on flawed insulation encasing a connection in a high-voltage cable running underneath the floor of the ...

OTTAWA - A newly rebuilt HMCS Chicoutimi is set to rejoin the Canadian navy's submarine fleet, nearly 10 years after a deadly fire aboard the second-hand warship effectively crippled the program. The ...

A potentially cancer-causing substance called Peridite was among the materials that burned during a deadly electrical fire on a Canadian submarine at sea almost four years ago. In the past, the navy ...

HMCS Windsor transits from the U.K. to her home port in Halifax, Nova Scotia in 2001. Canadian Navy Photo Canada’s Victoria-class submarine fleet has been controversial since its inception. Most ...

The troubled fleet of submarines purchased from Britain has suffered another fire, slightly more than a year after a blaze crippled HMCS Chicoutimi and led to the death of one sailor. A navy ...

Sixteen-million dollars — that’s the estimated cost of shipping the HMCS Chicoutimi to B.C. The submarine was carted up and moved out of Halifax this week, but Irving is still waiting for a ruling on ...