Details of submarine fire to be released

Further details of the fire which crippled a Canadian submarine and claimed the life of one of its seamen, as well as the heroic rescue effort to return the vessel and its crew safely to shore, were expected to emerge today.

HMCS Chicoutimi, which was left drifting in the Atlantic after last Tuesday’s blaze, limped into HM Naval Base Clyde at Faslane, near Glasgow, with its Canadian flag half mast late yesterday afternoon.