A boat repair company in Richmond, B.C., has been ordered to pay more than $233,000, plus interest, for breaching its contract with owners of a former navy landing craft converted for use as a barge.
The Canadian-flagged Tyee Shepard was built as a Landing Craft Mechanized Mark 8, or LCM-8, in 1959. Versions of the amphibious warfare ships were first developed in the Second World War, and would go on to be used by the U.S. Navy and Army as a river boat and mechanized landing craft during the Vietnam War, as well as conflicts in Panama, Iraq and Somalia. Modified versions of the ship are also in service with the Australian military.
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