Crew share memories as navy vessel turns 30

“FOR years my wife said there was only one other woman in my life,” Lt Cdr Peter Twomey said.

His wife needn’t have worried, though, as the “other woman” was called Aoife and she’s one of the navy’s eight vessels.

He was captain of the ship in 2002 when she helped save the crew of the Canadian submarine HMCS Chicoutimi, which went on fire off the north-west coast.