CCGS Pierre Radisson |
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| Career (Canada) | |
|---|---|
| Name: | CCGS 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 St. John's, NL (Newfoundland and Labrador Region) |
| Identification: | CGSB |
| Status: | in active service, as of 2012[update] |
| 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 and 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] She is designated as a "Medium Gulf Icebreaker. 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.
The 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.[3][4]
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