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Old 24-01-13, 03:21
Bob Carriere Bob Carriere is offline
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Yes they are........ small display but very impressive. Not well advertised and as usual played down.

I never realized that the Gaspe basin was intended to be used as a back up refuge for the Royal Navy fleet should England be invaded..... shared with Halifax Bedford basin.

They had anti submarine steel nets controlling access to the basin..... a seaplane base....... saddely most of the original installations have been leveled for urban development.

ships coming in had to stop in a holding area, well within range of the shore guns, ships IDed, searched and cleared for entrance in the basin. Even local folks remember very little of that period.

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