CCGS Sir Wilfrid Laurier
 CCGS Sir Wilfrid Laurier | |
| History | |
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 Canada
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| Name: | Sir Wilfrid Laurier |
| Namesake: | Sir Wilfrid Laurier, Prime Minister |
| Operator: | Canadian Coast Guard |
| Port of registry: | Ottawa, Ontario |
| Builder: | Collingwood Shipbuilding, Collingwood, Ontario |
| Yard number: | 807038 |
| Commissioned: | 1986 |
| In service: | 1986-present |
| Homeport: | CCG Base Victoria, British Columbia (Pacific Region) |
| Identification: | CGJK |
| Status: | in active service, as of 2016 |
| General characteristics | |
| Class and type: | Type 1100 light icebreaker |
| Displacement: | 3,812.08 tonnes (4,202.10 short tons) |
| Length: | 83 m (272 ft 4 in) |
| Beam: | 16.2 m (53 ft 2 in) |
| Draft: | 6 m (19 ft 8 in) |
| Ice class: | Arctic Class 2 |
| Propulsion: | Diesel AC - (3 × ) ALCO 251-16V |
| Speed: | 15.5 knots (28.7 km/h; 17.8 mph) |
| Range: | 20,200 nautical miles (37,400 km; 23,200 mi) |
| Endurance: | 120 days |
| Boats & landing craft carried: |
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| Complement: | 26 |
| Aircraft carried: | 1 × MBB Bo 105 helicopter |
| Aviation facilities: | Hangar |
| Notes: | [1][2] |
CCGS Sir Wilfrid Laurier is a light icebreaker and Major Navaids Tender of the Canadian Coast Guard.[1][2] Built in 1986 by Canadian Shipbuilding at Collingwood, Ontario, Canada, she was the last ship built there.[3] The ship is currently based out of Victoria, British Columbia.
Design
Engine
Like CCGS Martha L. Black, Sir Wilfrid Laurier has three locomotive engines, ALCO-Bombardier 251F-16V.[2][1]
Workboat/lifeboat
Sir Wilfrid Laurier's workboat/lifeboat No.1 was repurposed as a training boat/work boat that has been operated by the Maritime Affairs Committee Navy League of Canada - Outaouais Branch since 1995. The boat was named Fred Gordon, in honour of WO1 (ret’d) Fred Gordon, EM, CD former Regimental Sergeant-Major for Le Régiment de Hull (RCAC) 1967-71. Fred Gordon was a member of the Hull Legion who supported the Royal Canadian Navy Sea Cadet Corps la Hulloise (CCMRC no. 230) sponsored by the Outaouais Branch of the Navy League of Canada.[4]
Purpose and history
Sir Wilfrid Laurier is a multi-tasked vessel which carries out a wide variety of Coast Guard programs including buoy tending, search and rescue, science work, lightstation re-supply, beacon maintenance, radio repeater site maintenance, and icebreaking/escorting, aids to navigation and science work during summer patrols in the Arctic.
The vessel has been employed on research voyages[5] and the rescue of survivors of the merchant vessel Queen of the North. In 2014 the ship was part of the search for John Franklin's ships, Erebus and Terror, during the Victoria Strait Expedition[6]
References
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- 1 2 3 "CCGS Sir Wilfrid Laurier". Canadian Coast Guard. 4 February 2015. Retrieved 16 March 2015.
- 1 2 3 "Canadian Coast Guard Fleet Annual Report 2006-2007" (pdf). Fisheries and Oceans Canada. October 2007. Retrieved 16 March 2015.
- ↑ "Collingwood Shipbuilding, Collingwood ON". shipbuildinghistory.com. 18 February 2015. Retrieved 16 March 2015.
- ↑ "Fred Gordon". Comité des Affaires Maritimes Ligue Navale du Canada (succ. de l'Outaouais). Retrieved 16 March 2015.
- ↑ "2001-2002 Beaufort Sea Ice Stress Measurement Project". CRREL-USAC. Archived from the original on 2012-02-04. Retrieved 16 March 2015.
- ↑ Rennie, Steve (9 September 2014). "Franklin expedition ship found, PMO says". National Post. Canadian Press. Retrieved 16 March 2015.
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