To answers the "Guest's" question...the CDN Sub wasnt going t oSligo..she was enroute across the Atlantic back to Halifax from the UK after she was "re-commissioned" into the Canadian Navy. They didnt give a fidller's fart abouthte IRA..hell..from my time working around the Canadian Navy most of them (us) support the IRA more then we would the Crown anyway..haha.....and..it wasnt a Canadian Sub built in the UK..read the freakin msg's......Slainte!