Canadian Navy warship spotted in Maine waters — Maine News — Bangor Daily News: "Residents of both Lubec and Eastport were a bit surprised late Tuesday afternoon when a Canadian warship, the HMCS Athabaskan, made an unannounced visit to Johnson Bay.
Neither U.S.Homeland Security officials nor the U.S. Coast Guard were informed of the ship’s entry into U.S. waters, according to a Coast Guard spokesman at the Eastport Coast Guard station.
“None of us here saw it coming or going,” Boatswain Mate First Class Terry Bailey said Wednesday. “We are supposed to be notified if a foreign ship intends to dock at our port, but not if it just comes into our waters.”
Robert Peacock of Eastport, who pilots the large cargo vessels into the port of Eastport, said seeing a Canadian ship in U.S. waters is fairly normal with the international border just yards from the coastline."
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