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HMCS Athabaskan Shipwreck off the coast of France
In September 2005 Aurora sponsored an expedition to the wreck site of HMCS Athabaskan, a Canadian WWII Tribal Class Destroyer, in quest to unravel the mysterious sinking of the most important warships Canada ever lost in battle. The Athabaskan was lost during a night battle with two German Destroyers off the Northern coat of Brittany, France just before the invasion of Europe by the allies at Normandy, a few miles to the Northeast of the site. Aurora assembled a survey team in the small coastal village of L’ Aber Wrac’h and, in conjunction with a naval architect from the Canadian Navy and an individual whose Grandfather had perished with 128 of his shipmates that night, created a sonar mosaic of the wreck site.
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