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HMCS Kootenay - After the Disaster

1970-01-20
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1970-01-20
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1970-01-21
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1970-01-29
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1970-05-07
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Bound for Mexico
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2001
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**This article is not verified**

Acapulco, Mexico May 11 2001

This ship is part of "Reef Gate" and was big news in Mexico from 1999 to 2001. This Canadian Naval ship (and Restigouche - DDE 257) was towed from Canada to here to become an artificial reef on Navy Day, June 1, 2000. There was a question on how they were purchased and here they sat until it was cleared up in 2001. Shortly after this photo the Kootenay was sunk near the Restigouche that was sunk.

 

http://www.hazegray.org/navhist/canada/postwar/restigou/

Name

Pendant

Commissioned

IRE

DELEX

Paid Off

Fate

KOOTENAY

258

7/3/59

7/1/72

21/10/83

18/11/95

Sunk off Mexico as artificial reef 2001.

 

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