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On May 1, 2009, Shaw Communications offered to buy the station for $ 1 from CTV ( along with other underperforming stations in Brandon and Windsor ), but scuttled the deal two months later.
Several vessels were scuttled or burned along the way with the rest destroyed at Bangor.

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By then they had probably developed a taste for Madeira wine, and on 29 September near Cape Charles all they took from the Betty of Virginia was her cargo of Madeira, before they scuttled her with the remaining cargo.
The ships were scuttled there in the 11th century to block a navigation channel, thus protecting the city, which was then the Danish capital, from seaborne assault.
** WWI: Action of 17 November 1917: United States Navy destroyers USS Fanning and USS Nicholson capture Imperial German Navy U-boat SM U-58 off the south-west coast of Ireland, the first combat action in which U. S. ships take a submarine ( which is then scuttled ).
The crew of the CSS Arkansas then set the vessel afire and scuttled it to avoid it falling into enemy hands.
Fox announced on October 29, 2007 that it would commission a pilot for an American version of Spaced, a project they then scuttled in May 2008 following a generally negative reaction from the series ' creators and fans of the original show.
" Corn cobs " were block ships that crossed the channel either under their own steam or that were towed and then scuttled to create sheltered water at the five landing beaches .. Once in position the " Corn Cobs " created " Gooseberries ".
She was damaged by a torpedo and then scuttled in the Barents Sea in mid-1942.
She was scuttled in 1949, by then the second oldest ship of the Navy ( after Victory ).
The Australian warship broke to pursue Emdens supporting collier, which scuttled herself, then returned to North Keeling Island at 16: 00.
De Soto then scuttled the ship, thinking to leave no evidence of the attack, but the imprisoned survivors managed to escape and prevent the Morning Star from sinking until a passing merchant vessel rescued them the following day.
They were then picked up by the French submarine Rubis, which scuttled the Ouvéa.

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In the action which followed, the Ninfa was seriously damaged, while the Santa Elena, reputedly a rich bullion ship, was deliberately scuttled by her captain.

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A German ship renamed the " Aud ", flying Norwegian colours, shipped 20, 000 rifles to the south Irish coast but it failed to link up with the rebels and was scuttled.
A further barrier against submarine attack from the south came in 1914 when HMS Hood was scuttled across the southern entrance to the 1848 breakwater.
Likewise the China Yangtze Patrol gunboats also became part of the Philippine naval defenses: ( sunk south of Java 3 March 1942 ), ( lost 2 May 1942 ), ( scuttled 6 May 1942 but salvaged by the Japanese ), ( sunk 5 May 1942 ), and ( scuttled 5 May 1942 ).

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* German submarine U-123 ( 1940 ), a Type IXB submarine that served in the Second World War until she was taken out of service on 17 June 1944 ; scuttled on 19 August 1944 ; raised and became the French submarine Blaison ( Q165 ); stricken on 18 August 1959
*, a River class torpedo boat destroyer commissioned into the Australian Commonwealth Naval Forces in 1910, transferred to the RAN on its foundation in 1911, operated until 1929, and scuttled
*, a floating drydock at U. S. Naval Base Subic Bay in the Philippines until being scuttled in 1942
Due to the reluctance of the Commodore to launch a naval attack in support of the ground forces, the British garrison held out until ships of the Royal Navy arrived from Halifax and drove the American Navy up the Penobscot River where all 43 American warships were sunk or were scuttled and burned, comprising most of the American fleet, making it the worst American naval disaster prior to the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor in 1941.
Also commanded CSS Appomattox in coastal North Carolina until it was scuttled in Fedruary 1862.
* German submarine U-137 ( 1940 ), a Type IID submarine that served in the Second World War until scuttled on 2 May 1945
U-30 was undamaged in the attack and served until she was scuttled at the end of the war.
* SM U-48, a Type U 43 submarine launched in 1915 and that served in the First World War until scuttled on 24 November 1917
* German submarine U-48 ( 1939 ), a Type VIIB submarine that served in the Second World War until scuttled on 3 May 1945

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And if it was not an individual who was in the dock, why was the Trial, as we shall observe later, all but scuttled in the attempt to prove Eichmann a `` fiend ''??
The arms shipment was lost when the German ship carrying it, Aud, was scuttled after interception by the Royal Navy, after the local Volunteers had failed to rendezvous with it.
After the end of the war in June 1919 the German fleet interned in Scapa Flow was scuttled by its crews, to avoid its ships being taken over by the victorious allies.
However, the plot was discovered on 21 April 1916 and the weapons were lost when the ship carrying them, the Aud, was scuttled to prevent the arms from falling into the hands of the British.
Following the Royal Navy's revenge at the Battle of the Falkland Islands a month later, the only surviving German cruiser, SMS Dresden, was finally hunted down and cornered at Más a Tierra early in 1915, where she was scuttled after a brief battle with British cruisers.
After the end of World War I, the bulk of the Navy's modern ships ( 74 in all ) were interned at Scapa Flow where the entire fleet ( with a few exceptions ) was scuttled by its crews on 21 June 1919 on orders from its commander, Rear Admiral Ludwig von Reuter.
* Spanish cruiser Reina Mercedes, a cruiser that was scuttled as a blockship in 1898.
The plan was opposed by key Queensland Senators Ron Boswell and Barnaby Joyce, and was scuttled in 2006.
* The Glen Strathallan luxury steam yacht was scuttled near the Shagstone as a site for scuba diving.
An agreement between the TFG and the Islamic Courts Union ( ICU ) to build a national military was reached " in principle " on 5 September 2006, but in practice, political disagreements scuttled talks scheduled for 30 October in Khartoum, Sudan.
An earlier release by Anchor Bay, allegedly set for 2006, was apparently scuttled because of a dispute over the rights to the series with Warner Brothers.
After Graf Spees captain Hans Langsdorff was told that his stay could not be extended beyond 72 hours, he scuttled his damaged ship rather than face the overwhelmingly superior force that the British had led him to believe was awaiting his departure.
After a 72-hour layover in port of Montevideo the captain of the Graf Spee, believing he was hopelessly outnumbered by the British, ordered the ship to be scuttled.
Graves ordered the Terrible to be scuttled on 11 September due to her leaky condition, and was notified on 13 September that the French fleet was back in the Chesapeake ; he still did not learn that de Grasse's line had not included the fleet of de Barras, because the frigate captain making the report had not counted the ships.

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Of the 156 U-boats that surrendered to the allies at the end of the war, 116 were scuttled as part of Operation Deadlight.
A close protégé of Admiral Alfred von Tirpitz, Raeder focused all of his efforts on rebuilding the High Seas Fleet that had scuttled itself at Scapa Flow in 1919.
Hitler badly needed to increase the size of his navy, but every ship was scuttled at dock before they could be taken.
However, Giuseppi Cavicchio's refusal to sell his water rights scuttled Henry Ford's plans to build an auto parts factory at the site of Charles O. Parmenter's mill in South Sudbury.
It was at this later battle that the Confederate Ram Neuse was scuttled to avoid capture by Union troops.
In July 1981 The Soul Clan officially reunited for a sold out concert at the Savoy Theater in Manhattan, New York City ( with Pickett stepping in for Conley, who was in Europe at the time ), but it was the last time they would work together " after a chaotic concert punctuated with a " busted sound system, dead mikes, band miscues, and ' unauthorized backstage personnel ' scuttled plans for a tour.
The Battle of the River Plate only hints at one aspect of the story: the death of Captain Hans Langsdorff, who committed suicide a few days after he scuttled his ship.
He took 7 / 49 at Jamaica, including in his haul the opener Steve Camacho, Rohan Kanhai, Gary Sobers ( lbw for another first ball duck ), Basil Butcher, David Holford, Charlie Griffith and Wes Hall as the West Indies were scuttled for 143.
* October 20 – The Spanish Republican Navy submarine C-6 is scuttled at Gijón, Spain, after suffering damage in an Nationalist air attack.
Merchant ships in the island's docks were scuttled, and demolitions were carried out at Kowloon Naval Yard and on the island.
The engineers were unable to refloat the Phoenixes and US Navy Captain ( later Rear Admiral ) Edward Ellsberg, already well known for quickly refloating scuttled ships at Massawa and Oran, was brought in to accomplish the task, though not without obtaining Churchill's intervention in taking the task away from the Royal Engineers and giving it to the Royal Navy.
The burned and scuttled had been raised at Gosport ( Norfolk ) Navy Yard, and an armored casemate built on her hull.
Because no real 74-gun ship existed any longer at the time of production ( the last one, HMS Implacable, was scuttled in 1949 ), the HMS Justinian and HMS Renown had to be recreated as models.
When the British warship tried to board Skagerrak her crew scuttled her at.
The burnt-out Sir Galahad was later scuttled at sea to allow her to become a war grave.
The usual fate of ships in the reserve fleet, though, is to become too old and obsolete to be of any use, at which point they are sold for scrapping or are scuttled in weapons tests.
Unable to secure sufficient funding, their plans were scuttled, but they still were able to produce two nights of shows at Théâtre-St-Denis, with Keith Jarrett and a then-unknown Pat Metheny.
Rosyth and nearby Charlestown were major centres of shipbreaking activity, notably the salvage of much of the German fleet scuttled at Gutter Sound, Scapa Flow.
Ainsworth pursued the Imperial destroyers, but both St. Louis and Honolulu were struck by torpedoes and damaged, while Gwin was struck amidships and scuttled at 09: 30 the next morning.

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