CCGS Revisor
 CCGS Revisor with CCG livery painted out, while working with researchers from the Jet Propulsion Lab | |
| History | |
|---|---|
 Canada
| |
| Name: | Revisor |
| Operator: | Canadian Coast Guard (on loan to Jet Propulsion Lab) |
| Builder: | Canoe Cove Manufacturing Limited, Sidney, BC |
| Commissioned: | 1972 |
| In service: | 1972 |
| Homeport: | Patricia Bay, BC |
| Status: | in active service, as of 2016 |
| General characteristics | |
| Type: | Inshore fisheries research and survey vessel |
| Displacement: | 10.5 gross tons |
| Length: | 12.2 m (40 ft 0 in) |
| Beam: | 3.8 m (12 ft 6 in) |
| Draft: | 0.8 m (2 ft 7 in) |
| Propulsion: | Diesel - 2 × Volvo Penta |
| Speed: | 17 knots (31 km/h) |
| Range: | 200 nmi (370 km) |
| Endurance: | 5 days |
| Complement: | 2 |
| Aviation facilities: | None |
The Canadian Coast Guard Ship Revisor is a Canadian Coast Guard inshore fisheries research and survey vessel.
The boat is a Cabin cruiser (maximum of 2 passengers) for use for offshore hydrographic survey work.
The vessel has been made available in the past for use by United States Government researchers with NASA's Jet Propulsion Lab in Pasadena, California, as well as university research work by the Seafloor Mapping Lab at California State University in Monterey Bay, California.[1]
CGS Base Patricia Bay
Most ships at this base are research vessels:
- CCGS John P. Tully - research vessel
- CCGS Vector - survey ship
- CCGS W. E. Ricker - research vessel
- CCGS Gordon Reid - search and rescue
References
- ^ official Revisor web-page, Canadian Coast Guard
- ^ Meet the Oceanographers: The birth of a cold water reef, Jet Propulsion Laboratory
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