HMCS Winnipeg coming home
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Published: August 14, 2009 1:00 PM
Updated: August 14, 2009 1:55 PM
Updated: August 14, 2009 1:55 PM
After more than six months of fighting pirates and delivering humanitarian aid, HMCS Winnipeg is coming home.
The ship took part in a NATO-led counter piracy mission in April and May off the Horn of Africa.
As a result, five pirate ships were disarmed in three separate incidents.
The vessel also escorted a number of merchant ships, ensuring 5,000 tons of humanitarian aid made it to Somalia in support of the United Nations World Food Program.
HMCS Winnipeg will arrive in Esquimalt on Friday (Aug. 21) at 9:30 a.m.
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