On 12 July a Submarine the Royal Navy Sold to Canada for £1 Fired a Torpedo That Sank a Decommissioned US Navy Ticonderoga-class Cruiser and Made Military History

On 12 July a Submarine the Royal Navy Sold to Canada for £1 Fired a Torpedo That Sank a Decommissioned US Navy Ticonderoga-class Cruiser and Made Military History

On July 12, 2026, north of Kauai, HMCS Corner Brook, a submarine Britain laid up in 1994 and transferred to Canada for a nominal one pound, fired the Mk 48 torpedo that broke the back of ex-USS Mobile Bay, a billion-dollar Aegis cruiser named for the battle where Farragut damned the torpedoes and whose motto was Full Speed Ahead. The pound bought nothing but title; the real bill ran to at least C$897 million, a fatal fire on HMCS Chicoutimi, and…