YAG Training Vessels - Retirement

Retirement

The YAG 300 series have been replaced by the Patrol Class Training Tenders Orca-class training vessels as of fall 2008. The first tender, Orca, was launched August 9, 2006 at Victoria Shipyard in Esquimalt, British Columbia and was handed over to the Navy on November 17, 2006.

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