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May 19, 2005 The view looking up up the foremast on SPS JS de ELCANO. Sandy McClearn photo. May 19, 2005 SPS JUAN SEBASTIAN de ELCANO, a Spanish Navy sail training vessel, arrives in Halifax in May, 2005. Sandy McClearn photo.   May 19, 2005 A freighter leaves Halifax. Sandy McClearn photo. May 19, 2005 A fishing boat retrieves lobster traps near Northwest Cove, Nova Scotia. Sandy McClearn photo. May 19, 2005 Princess of Acadia, a Bay of Fundy passenger ferry, leaves drydock in a snow squall with the help of the tug Point Chebucto. Sandy McClearn photo. May 19, 2005 The tug Point Halifax breaks up ice in Halifax Harbour. Sandy McClearn photo. February 3, 2005 The freighter Georgia S transits Halifax Harbour in heavy sea smoke, a mist that arrises when the water temperature is warmer than that of the air above it. The temperature on this day was about -20 degrees celsius. Sandy McClearn photo. February 3, 2005 The sealift ship Eide Transporter enters a thick fog bank in Halifax Harbour. She is carrying the crippled submarine HMCS CHICOUTIMI , which suffered a fire off the coast of Ireland in October, 2004. Sandy McClearn photo. January 17, 2005 Homeported in Dorset, England, the C.S. Sovereign is an undersea cable laying and repair ship owned by Global Marine Systems. Sandy McClearn photo. http://www.atlantic-cable.com/Cableships/Sovereign/ January 17, 2005 A tug escorts a gypsum carrier through the narrows of Halifax Harbour during a snow storm. Sandy McClearn photo. December 19, 2004 The barque Europa, with HMCS SACKVILLE in the background, during Tall Ships 2004. Originally a North Sea lightship built in 1911, Europa was converted for charter service in her present configuration betwen 1987-1994, and is now based in The Hague. Sandy McClearn photo.  http://www.barkeuropa.com/ December 19, 2004 Two tugs silhouetted against a sunrise. Sandy McClearn photo. November 28, 2004 A LASH (Lighter Aboard Ship) ship offloads cargo in Halifax Harbour. These ships carry upwards of 80 pre-loaded container barges, which can be offloaded into the water and then towed individually ashore. A large mobile crane can traverse the entire cargo deck of the ship in order to load and unload the containers. In this case, a tug is taking a container barge to a nearby wharf. Sandy McClearn photo. http://www.globalsecurity.org/military/systems/ship/cape-f.htm November 28, 2004 USS TRENTON and USS SAIPAN (background) exit Halifax Harbour in October, 2004. Ian MacCorquodale photo. October 19, 2004 The Cat is a high-speed catamaran ferry that runs between Bar Harbour, Maine, and Yarmouth, Nova Scotia. She was built by Incat in Australia, and is pictured here in Halifax Harbour. Sandy McClearn photo. October 19, 2004 The Canadian Coast Guard icebreaker Terry Fox in Halifax Harbour. Sandy McClearn photo. For more information, see: http://www.ccg-gcc.gc.ca/vessels-navires/details_e.asp?id=A-2 October 19, 2004 The semi-submersible heavy lift ship Black Marlin carries a Rowan Gorilla jack-up oil rig on its back for a trans-atlantic trip. Sandy McClearn photo. For more information, see: http://www.ocean-resources.com/issues/article.asp?ID=458&MagID=20 October 19, 2004 The Cunard liner Queen Mary 2 visits Halifax for the first time in September, 2004. Sandy McClearn photo. For more information, see: http://www.qm2-uk.com/ August 25, 2004 HMCS ATHABASKAN salutes Pride of Baltimore II as she passes by during the sailpast of Tall Ships 2004 in Halifax Harbour. Sandy McClearn photo. For more information, see: http://www.intandem.com/NewPrideSite/ August 25, 2004 HMCS ST. JOHN'S, a HALIFAX class frigate, emerges from a fog bank in Halifax Harbour. Sandy McClearn photo. http://www.hazegray.org/navhist/canada/current/halifax/ August 25, 2004 The USNS COMFORT is based in Baltimore, and is one of two large hospital ships serving the US Navy. COMFORT and her sistership MERCY were both converted from oil tanker hulls, and this photo shows how much she dwarfs HMCS ST. JOHN'S (foreground). Sandy McClearn photo. For more information, see: http://www.comfort.navy.mil/ August 25, 2004 The Denis Sullivan is a three-masted schooner based in Wisconsin. She is pictured here in Halifax, NS, in May 2004. Sandy McClearn photo. For more information, see: http://www.pierwisconsin.org/schooner/histcons.htm July 7, 2004 HMC Ships VILLE DE QUEBEC and ATHABASKAN exit Halifax Harbour as they leave for a large exercise off the coast of the United States. Sandy McClearn photo. July 7, 2004 HMCS WINDSOR departs Halifax Harbour, as seen through the masts of the paid off ships ex-HMC Ships TERRA NOVA and GATINEAU. Sandy McClearn photo. http://www.hazegray.org/navhist/canada/current/upholder/

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