Royal Canadian Navy to retire four ships early

摘要

Four Royal Canadian Navy (RCN) ships are being retired early in an effort to preserve resources for modernising and renewing the naval force structure as a whole, the navy's senior officer announced on 19 September. Vice Admiral Mark Norman, commander of the RCN, said that the four ships - two of the RCN's three Iroquois-class guided-missile destroyers and the fleet's two auxiliary oil replenishment (AOR) ships - are "out of service immediately" and that "none of them would go to sea again".