CCGS Brant
| History | |
|---|---|
 Canada
| |
| Name: | Brant |
| Namesake: | Joseph Brant |
| Operator: | |
| Builder: | Government Shipyard, Sorel, QC[1] |
| Commissioned: | 10 May 1928 |
| Decommissioned: | 1966 |
| Homeport: | Dartmouth, Nova Scotia |
| General characteristics | |
| Type: | Buoy and lighthouse (navigation aid) tender |
| Displacement: | 285 tonnes (314.16 short tons) |
| Length: | 125 ft (38 m) |
| Beam: | 23 ft (7.0 m) |
| Draught: | 12 ft (3.7 m) |
| Propulsion: | Coal-burning steamship |
CCGS Brant was a Canadian Coast Guard Ship operating as a navigation aids vessel between 1928 and 1966.[2]
Commissioned 10 May 1928 as CGS Brant (using the prefix "Canadian Government Ship"), she saw service as a navigation aids vessel for the Department of Transport's Marine Service, stationed at Dartmouth, Nova Scotia.
With the creation of the Canadian Coast Guard in 1962, she was known as CCGS Brant. The last coal-burner in Canadian government service. Brant was decommissioned in 1966.
References
- ↑ "Government Shipyard Sorel". shipbuildinghistory.com. 29 May 2012. Retrieved 19 November 2014.
- ↑ "Ships of the CCG 1850-1967". Canadian Coast Guard. 2008-03-31. Archived from the original on 2009-09-13.
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