HMCS KOOTENAY 1969
Welcome to the HMCS Kootenay 1969 website
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This site includes photos of the ship and the crew from 1969 and over the years. Also included are Commemorations, Memorials, information, news and events related to the October 23, 1969 tragedy.
On Thursday October 23, 1969, during Naval exercises 210 miles west of Plymouth England, an explosion and fire in the engine room of HMCS Kootenay occurred and became known as the Royal Canadian Navy’s worst peacetime accident.
This tragic event not only took the lives of nine men but it also changed the lives of the survivors and their families.
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IN MEMORY OF
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CPO Vaino Olavi Partanen
CPO William Alfred Boudreau
PO Lewis J. Stringer
PO Eric George Harman
LS Thomas Gordon Crabbe
LS Pierre S. Bourret
LS Gary Wayne Hutton
AB Michael Alan Hardy
OS Nelson Murray Galloway
Slt Clark Reiffenstein
LS Sam Anderson
OS Garry Grant
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and the survivors who have
since crossed the bar
Email address: hmcskootenay1969@gmail.com