From the May 3, 2012, Vancouver (Can) Sun "Sunken Second World War ship leaking fuel, natives say" by Larry Pynn.
The Gilga'at Nation wantes the Canadian government to do something about the sunken ship at Hartley Bay. It is producing oil slicks and has a bad smell.
The U.S. Transport Ship Brigadier General M.G. Zalinski was carrying 700 tons of bunker oil and at least a dozen 227-kilogram bombs when it hit rocks in 1946 in Grenville Channel about 40 miles north of Hartley Bay and sank. All 47 men aboard were saved even though the ship sank in twenty minutes.
It is 27 meters under the surface and oil slicks are forming. Another ship, the ferry MV Queen of the North sank near the site in 2006.
The Zalinski was built in Lorain, Ohio, and delivered to the government in June 1919, too late for use during World War I. It was sold in 1924, but reacquired in 1941.
--GreGen
The USS North Carolina (BB-55) My all-time favorite warship. As an elementary school student in North Carolina, I donated nickels and dimes to save this ship back in the early sixties.
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