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Port burwell submarine tour hours11/16/2023 “To paraphrase (Winston) Churchill: it's not so much the end or even the beginning of the end but it is perhaps the end of the beginning,” he added. But, Raven was pleased with the submarine getting onto land, calling Tuesday a special day for Port Burwell and the museum. The project carried a huge price-tag with hundreds of thousands of dollars coming from or expected from the federal government, estate of Dorothy Palmer and other sources and museum fundraising is ongoing. The museum has a $6 million outstanding bank loan and Raven said they need to begin focusing on repayment. “For the first year or couple of years, the story will be the restoration of the vessel it's a large naval vessel and it will take some time to restore completely,” he explained. The museum plans to reinstall appropriate fixtures in the vessel, which is currently gutted, open tours of the submarine by next summer and have a satellite museum focused on Cold War and naval history constructed by 2014. However, Ian Raven stressed the project is far from over. The expectation is to cement the submarine into place today and then remove the transport cradles and trailers. OJIBWA is a thousand miles from the sea in Port Burwell, Ontario on the north shore of Lake Erie. By late afternoon, Elgin Military Museum executive director Ian Raven said the plan was to situate the submarine 500 metres from where it originally reached land at its final resting place with the transports still attached. Once it was on land, the submarine moved much more quickly at about half-a-mile per hour by Raven's estimation. Open today: 11:00 AM - 4:00 PM Save Jack717 Stoney Creek, Canada 12 5 Ojibwa Submarine Review of The Museum of Naval History Reviewed SeptemDrove up to Port Burwell to see the Ojibwa Submarine at the Elgin Military Museum. When the submarine was completely on land by about 2 p.m., the large crowd of spectators let out a cheer. Just getting the submarine away from the barge took about five hours as the crew needed to redistribute weight with each forward motion. Tuesday, the sub lurched forward about three feet and then moved at about 15 feet at a time off the barge. Crews were finally able to position the barge carrying Ojibwa at the foot of the unloading area Sunday evening and attach an army of self-propelled modular transporters for the move Monday. Strong winds and currents on Lake Erie, however, prevented the offloading until Tuesday. I've been working with this so long it's just wonderful to actually see it coming onto land.” Project Ojibwa, the Elgin Military Museum-led group responsible for bringing the submarine to Port Burwell, anticipated offloading the submarine last Thursday. “It's beautiful,” Elgin Military Museum communications director Melissa Raven said of reaching the milestone. After originally planning to offload the 295-foot submarine last Thursday, Project Ojibwa and the crew of Mammoet Canada were finally able to transport the vessel from its towing barge onto land. Inch-by-painstaking-inch the HMCS Ojibwa made its way onto land Tuesday.
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