CCGS Pierre Radisson

CCGS Pierre Radisson
History
Canada
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:
  • 1 - FRC Zodiac H-733 (Miranda Davit)
  • 2 - Hurricane 530 (Crane)
  • 3 - SP Barge (Davits)
  • 4 - SP Barge (Davits)
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]

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