CCGS Des Groseilliers

History
Canada
Name: Des Groseilliers
Namesake: Médard des Groseilliers
Operator: Canadian Coast Guard
Port of registry: Ottawa, Ontario
Builder: Port Weller Drydocks Limited, St. Catharines, Ontario
Yard number: 802160
Commissioned: 1982
In service: 1982-present
Refit: 1996
Homeport: CCG Base Quebec, QC (Quebec Region)
Identification: CGDX
Status: in active service, as of 2016
General characteristics
Class and type: T1200 Class
Type: Medium Arctic icebreaker
Tonnage: 6097.8 grt
Length: 98.24 m (322 ft 4 in)
Beam: 19.84 m (65 ft 1 in)
Draft: 7.44 m (24 ft 5 in)
Ice class: 100 A (Arctic Class 2-3)
Propulsion: Diesel electric - 6 Bombardier M251F-16v9
Speed: 16.5 knots (30.6 km/h)
Range: 30,600 nmi (56,700 km)
Endurance: 108 days
Complement: 38 (12 officers, 26 crew)
Sensors and
processing systems:
  • 1 × Sailor RT 146 VHF-FM
  • 1 × Skanti 3000 ASN VHF-AM
  • 1 × Collins VHF 251
  • 2 × Collins MR1000
  • 1 × Motorola Micom X
  • 1 × Nera Std-B Sat Comm
  • 1 × Westinghouse D-1000 MSat
  • 1 × Furuno Weather Fax 208A
Aircraft carried: 1 × MBB Bo 105 helicopter
Aviation facilities: Hangar

The CCGS Des Groseilliers is a T1200 Class Medium Arctic Icebreaker in the Canadian Coast Guard.[1]

The vessel is named after Médard Chouart Des Groseilliers (1618-1669) a close associate of Pierre-Esprit Radisson in explorations west of the Great Lakes and the founding of the English Hudson's Bay Company.

The vessel has participated in a number of research voyages, including Ice Station SHEBA.[2] As part of the Surface Heat Budget of the Arctic Ocean experiment conducted in the Arctic Ocean from October 1997 to October 1998 to provide polar input to global climate models, the Des Groseilliers was allowed to be frozen into the ice for the Arctic winter, to serve as a base for scientific researchers.

In spring 2008, Des Groseilliers collided with the Sea Shepherd Conservation Society vessel, Farley Mowat, in the Gulf of Saint Lawrence, during the annual seal hunt. Paul Watson, head of the society, claimed that the icebreaker had rammed the society's research vessel. However, a spokesman for the department of Fisheries and Oceans Canada claimed that the research vessel "grazed" the icebreaker.[3]

Ice station SHEBA base, Des Groseilliers (right) with Louis S. St-Laurent.

CCG Base Quebec

Retired ships at the base include

References

  1. ↑ Canadian Coast Guard (2010-07-26), Icebreaking Program—The Icebreaking Fleet
  2. ↑ Perovich, Donald; Moritz, Richard C.; Weatherly, John (2003), SHEBA: The Surface Heat Budget of the Arctic Ocean (PDF) (03048 ed.), National Science Foundation
  3. ↑ Associated Press (April 1, 2008), "Sea Shepherd and coast guard ships collide", Sydney (Australia) Morning Herald, retrieved 2011-01-12

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