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Name: | CCGS Henry Larsen |
Namesake: | Henry Larsen RCMP ship captain and arctic explorer |
Operator: | Canadian Coast Guard |
Port of registry: | Ottawa, Ontario |
Builder: | Versatile Pacific Shipyards Limited, Vancouver, BC |
Yard number: | 808731 |
Commissioned: | 1987 |
In service: | 1987-present |
Refit: | 2000 |
Homeport: | CCG Base St. John's, NL (Newfounland and Labrador Region) |
Identification: | CGHL |
Status: | in active service, as of 2012[update] |
General characteristics | |
Class and type: | T1200 Class |
Type: | Medium Arctic Icebreaker |
Displacement: | 6,166 tons |
Length: | 100 m (328 ft 1 in) |
Beam: | 19.6 m (64 ft 4 in) |
Draft: | 7.3 m (23 ft 11 in) |
Ice class: | Arctic Class 4 |
Propulsion: | Diesel electric - (2x) GE AC and (3x) Wartsila VASA 16v32 |
Speed: | 16 knots (30 km/h) |
Range: | 20,000 nmi (37,000 km) |
Endurance: | 65 days |
Boats and landing craft carried: |
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Complement: | 31 |
Sensors and processing systems: |
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Aircraft carried: | 1 × MBB Bo 105 helicopter |
Aviation facilities: | Hangar |
CCGS Henry Larsen is a Canadian Coast Guard T1200 Class Medium Arctic icebreaker serving in the Newfoundland and Labrador Region and based in St John's, Newfoundland.[1]
A "Medium Gulf/River icebreaker", the vessel is named after Henry Larsen, the commander of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police patrol vessel St. Roch which was the first vessel to traverse the Northwest Passage in a single season.
The Canadian Coast Guard has two vessels in their "Heavy icebreaker" class, and four in the "Medium Gulf/River icebreaker" class. These are their only vessels capable of year-round operation in the high Arctic. These vessels all have a helicopter hangar and can carry and maintain a BO-105 helicopter, which is used for logistical purposes, as well as ice-spotting, and search and rescue.
A 2004 voyage of this vessel is the subject of the documentary film "Ice Breaker".
In 2008 *Discovery Channel filmed an episode of *Mighty Ships on the Larsen as she did a Ice Patrol around the Notre Dame Bay area of Newfoundland and Labrador.
In September 2009 the Henry Larsen participated in a training exercise with the Danish vessels HDMS Ejnar Mikkelsen and HDMS Hvidbjørnen.[2]
Vessels at this base: