The Royal Canadian Navysa国际传媒檚 HMCS Harry DeWolf has stopped in Victoria following its maiden deployment to Northwest Passage communities and before its return to Nova Scotia for the navysa国际传媒檚 first circumnavigation of North America since 1954.

The first-of-its-class Arctic and offshore patrol ship and its crew will take maintenance and rest at CFB Esquimalt for most of October, said navy Lt. Lisa Tubbs at the Ogden Point pier where she arrived Sunday afternoon.

Since departing from Halifax on Aug. 4, sa国际传媒淥peration Nanooksa国际传媒� included community relation-building and personnel training, Tubbs said.

The ship and crew conducted mass evacuation training with a detachment of the United States Coast Guard and visited the isolated Nunavut communities of Pond Inlet, Arctic Bay and Grise Fiord. There, they made infrastructure repairs and hosted community barbeques.

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Following the stay in Esquimalt, the ship will travel through the Panama Canal and return to Nova Scotia to commence sa国际传媒淥peration Carib.sa国际传媒� The anti-drug trafficking operation will have HMCS Harry DeWolf host U.S. law enforcement officers as it intercepts vessels of interest, Tubbs said.

The U.S. officers will board the vessels using itsmulti-role rescue boats sa国际传媒� which are new to the Royal Canadian Navy sa国际传媒� and escort the vessels of interest to port where officials will conduct drug searches, she said. sa国际传媒淪o wesa国际传媒檙e (the United States law enforcementsa国际传媒檚) transport, essentially sa国际传媒� thatsa国际传媒檚 how we support the Canadian Armed Forces commitment to stopping the flow of illicit drugs into North America.sa国际传媒�

The full circumnavigation of North America will be the first for the Royal Canadian Navy since accomplished by the HMCS Labrador in 1954. HMCS Harry DeWolf will eventually be one of at least six Arctic and offshore patrol ships in the navy, three of which will be found on either of Canadasa国际传媒檚 lateral coasts, Tubbs said.

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