Operation Megaphone

Operation Megaphone
Date 30 July 2000 to 6 August 2000 Location Off the coast of Newfoundland, North Atlantic
Belligerents
Royal Canadian Navy	Third Ocean Marine Navigation Ltd., Maryland, USA (US civilian contractor)
Units involved
HMCS Athabaskan, HMCS Montréal	GTS Katie

Operation Megaphone was the Canadian naval operation to board a Vincentian-flagged, American-owned merchant ship in the Atlantic, in order to recover $223 million worth of military materiel being transported back to Canada at the conclusion of operations in Kosovo.^[1]