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HMCS MORESBY 112
Minesweeping Auxiliary
Former Oil Rig Logistics Support Vessel Joyce Tide, she was converted at Marystown, Nfld., to provide Reserve personnel with training in minesweeping and coastal defence. Early in 1990, she joined the joint British/Netherlands NATO Exercise Safe Pass 90. In 1992, trials of her side-scan sonar led to the discovery of a WW2 casualty, the tanker British Freedom, outside Halifax. Transferred to Esquimalt, she left Halifax in company with HMCS Edmonton on 03 Mar 1997.
She was paid off on 10 Mar 2000 and turned over to Crown assets for disposal. Like her sister, she was sold commercially in Jan 2002 (IMO 7301245). She carried the following names prior to her acquisition by the Navy and after being disposed of by the Navy: RAMCO EXPRESS, RAMCO 1, SILVER STAR, ECHO STAR, MALBUN, and JOYCE TIDE. She is currently (2025) named DOS EXPLORER.
On 06 Jun 2025 AIS shows her in the in the port of Liepaja, Latvia.
Commanding Officers
They shall not be forgotten
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In memory of those who have crossed the bar 
