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HMCS Okanagan Visits the Port of Oshawa

Colour photograph of a submarine docked at the harbour.

Source: Judith Mowat, Vintage Oshawa
Date: 1990

Built at Chatham, U.K., HMCS Okanagan was commissioned on June 22 1968. She spent her whole career based out of Halifax as part of the 1st Canadian Submarine Squadron. On July 28 1973, RFA Grey Rover collided with HMCS Okanagan in the Clyde near Faslane, Scotland. There were no injuries to the submarine’s crew. Okanagan became the first Canadian submarine to do a Great Lakes cruise in October and November of 1990. This image shows when the HMCS Okanagan visited the Port of Oshawa.