HMCS Fundy (MCB 159) HMCS Fundy (MCB 159) HMCS "Fundy" (hull number MCB 159) was a that was constructed for the Royal Canadian Navy during the Cold War. Entering service in 1956, the vessel was used as a training ship on the West Coast of Canada for the majority of her career. "Fundy" was decommissioned in 1996 and the fate of the vessel is unknown. The Bay class were designed and ordered as replacements for the Second World War-era minesweepers that the Royal Canadian Navy operated at the time. Similar to the , they were constructed of wood planking and aluminum framing. Displacing standard
Straumfjörð Bay (near the southern tip of Nova Scotia) a better candidate. He notices that Samuel de Champlain named this bay ""Baye courante (’Stream Bay’), i.e. the same name as the Norse one"". Larsson further observes, The Bay of Fundy is claimed to have the highest tides in the world. Julius E. Olson (1911) pointed out that Fridtjof Nansen, taking a very sceptical stance, was dismissive of the idea of Vinland being located at Nova Scotia, partly because he held that the birdlife there would not match the extreme abundance which the saga describes on "Straumsey". Olson points, however, to the