HMCS Harry Dewolf returns home after inaugural four-month voyage

HMCS Harry DeWolf crew is home for the holidays Loved ones welcomed the crew of HMCS Harry DeWolf after four months of an inaugural sail though the Arctic.

The arctic patrol vessel HMCS Harry Dewolf is back home in Halifax.

Families were reunited on the jetty Thursday morning, as the vessel returned from its inaugural assignment.

The four-month deployment saw the ship voyage through the Northwest Passage, becoming only the second Royal Canadian Navy ship to do so since HMCS Labrador in 1954.

The patrol vessel crossed the Arctic Circle while participating in Operation Nanook.

The ship also circumnavigated North America and participated in a U.S.-leg anti-narcotics operation, seizing close to 3,000 kg of cocaine.