The Royal Navy has identified the sailor who died Friday after a small military boat capsized in the north end of Halifax harbour. Commodore Jacob French, commander of Fleet Atlantic, said Monday that Petty Officer 2nd Class Gregory Applin of Shoal Cove West,

The rigid-hull inflatable, known in the Royal Canadian Navy as a RHIB, overturned around 10 p.m. as it was returning to a boat shed after ferrying sea trial staff from HMCS Montreal to the Mill Cove Jetty, about a mile away. The frigate was moored in the Bedford Basin at the northern end of Halifax Harbour to test its sonar equipment.

Members of the Royal Canadian Navy say the sailor who died after the inflatable boat he was on capsized was HMCS Montreal member Gregory Attwood.