CCGS Pierre Radisson
 CCGS Pierre Radisson | |
| History | |
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 Canada
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| Name: | Pierre Radisson |
| Namesake: | Pierre Radisson |
| Operator: | Canadian Coast Guard |
| Port of registry: | Ottawa, Ontario |
| Builder: | Versatile Pacific Shipyards Limited, Vancouver, BC |
| Yard number: | 383326 |
| Launched: | 1978 |
| Commissioned: | 1987 |
| Refit: | 1995, 1996-1997 |
| Homeport: | CCG Base Quebec City |
| Identification: | CGSB |
| Status: | in active service, as of 2016 |
| General characteristics | |
| Class and type: | T1200 Class |
| Type: | Medium Arctic icebreaker |
| Displacement: | 5,910 tonnes (6,514.66 short tons) |
| Length: | 98.15 m (322 ft 0 in) |
| Beam: | 19.15 m (62 ft 10 in) |
| Draft: | 7.16 m (23 ft 6 in) |
| Ice class: | 100A (Arctic Class 2-3) |
| Speed: | 16.7 knots (30.9 km/h) |
| Range: | 15,000 nautical miles (28,000 km) |
| Endurance: | 120 days |
| Boats & landing craft carried: |
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| Complement: | 38 |
| Aircraft carried: | 1 × MBB Bo 105 helicopter |
| Aviation facilities: | Hangar |
The CCGS Pierre Radisson is a T1200 Class Medium Arctic and Gulf icebreaker of the Canadian Coast Guard.[1][2] Her winter home port is Quebec City at the mouth of the St Lawrence River in the Gulf of St. Lawrence. She is staffed by a crew of twelve officers and twenty-six sailors. She was built in 1978 by Burrard Dry Dock Company in North Vancouver, British Columbia. IMO number: 7510834.
Pierre Radisson participated in Operation Nanook (2009) and Operation Nanook (2008), annual joint training exercises with elements of the Canadian Forces to conduct sovereignty and disaster patrols in the Canadian Arctic.[3][4]
Workboat/lifeboat
Canadian Coast Guard ice breaker CCGS Pierre Radisson's workboat/lifeboat No.2 was repurposed as a training boat/work boat (13D17073) that has been operated by the Maritime Affairs Committee Navy League of Canada - Outaouais Branch since November 1998. The boat was named John Boucher in honour of the founder of the R.C.N. Sea Cadet Corps la Hulloise (CCMRC no. 230), which is sponsored by the Outaouais Branch of the Navy League of Canada. The main purpose of the boat today is to provide training for R.C.N. Sea Cadet Corps la Hulloise (CCMRC no. 230). When not used by the sea cadets, it serves as a workboat for the Navy League.[5]
Notable search and rescue missions
On July 27, 2015, CCGS Pierre Radisson located and rescued Sergey Ananov, a Russian helicopter pilot who attempted a round-the world flight. Ananov's Robinson R22 helicopter crashed and sunk in the Davis Strait, between Baffin Island and Greenland, the previous day, but the pilot managed to swim to a nearby ice floe.[6][7]
References
- ↑ "CCGS Pierre Radisson". Canadian Coast Guard. 2008-11-03. Retrieved 2009-09-03.
- ↑ G.W. Timco, I. Kubat, A. Collins & M. Johnston (March 2004). "Data Collection Program on Ice Regimes Onboard the CCG Icebreakers - 2003". Canadian Hydraulics Centre, National Research Council of Canada. Retrieved 2009-09-03.
- ↑ Elizabeth Thompson (2009-08-20). "Military takes Arctic trip: Operation Nanook 09 let Canadian Rangers, regular Forces members exchange skills". Edmonton Sun. Archived from the original on 2009-09-03.
- ↑ Elizabeth Thompson (2009-08-20). "Military takes Arctic trip: Operation Nanook 09 let Canadian Rangers, regular Forces members exchange skills". Edmonton Sun. Archived from the original on 2009-09-03.
- ↑ 'Fred Gordon'
- ↑ Sergey Ananov, Russian helicopter pilot missing in Davis Strait, found alive. Canadian Forces JRCC tweets pilot on world flight was found on floe after leaving Iqaluit, 2015-07-27
- ↑ Sergey Ananov, Russian pilot rescued in Arctic, recounts 2-day ordeal. Broken belt caused helicopter to malfunction; Ananov scared away 3 polar bears while awaiting rescue, 2015-07-27
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