Navy deals with battery problems on HMCS Chicoutimi

The Royal Canadian Navy is dealing with battery issues on HMCS Chicoutimi. In mid-May, sources told Defence Watch that HMCS Chicoutimi went out to sea but had to return to CFB Esquimalt in British Columbia because of battery issues.
The diesel-electric sub had been out for six days.
“HMCS Chicoutimi was conducting operations at sea when routine monitoring indicated battery functioning below performance specifications,” LCdr John Nethercott, a spokesman for the Royal Canadian Navy, co