The ship took part in fall 1998 in assisting in the recovery of wreckage from the crash of Swissair Flight 111 . '' Earl Grey '' and recovered wreckage from the plane , while transferring human remains to . On 7 – 8 December 1989 , two cargo vessels , and , sank in the Cabot Strait . '' Earl Grey '' was among the units dispatched to search for survivors , but they failed to find any . In 1996 , the ship assisted in the recovery and raising of the wrecked oil barge '' Irving Whale '' which had been carrying bunker oil that had been salvaged from another sunken ship from the sea floor
Swissair Flight 111
Swissair Flight 111
CCGS Earl Grey