HMCSAnticosti at Rimouski harbour summer 2000 |
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| Career | Royal Canadian Navy |
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| Name: | MSA 110 |
| Namesake: | Anticosti Island |
| Builder: | Allied Shipbuilders Ltd., Vancouver |
| Launched: | 1973 |
| Commissioned: | 1989 |
| Decommissioned: | 2000 |
| Homeport: | CFB Halifax |
| Notes: | Formerly merchant Jean Tide. |
| General characteristics | |
| Class and type: | Anticosti class minesweeper |
| Displacement: | 1,076 tons (2,200 tons deep load) |
| Length: | 58.3 m (191 ft) |
| Beam: | 13.1 m (43 ft) |
| Draught: | 5.2 m (17 ft) |
| Propulsion: | 4 x Nohab Polar diesels (4,200 bhp), 2 shafts |
| Speed: | 13.5 knots |
HMCS Anticosti (MSA 110) was an Anticosti class minesweeper that served in the Canadian Forces from 1989-2000.
Anticosti was built in 1973 by Allied Shipbuilders Ltd., Vancouver as the oil rig logistics support vessel Jean Tide. She was acquired by Maritime Command (MARCOM) in 1989 and commissioned with pennant number 110.
Anticosti was assigned to Maritime Forces Atlantic (MARLANT) as a minesweeping training vessel in preparation for the Maritime Coastal Defence Vessel Project (MCDV), which would become the Kingston-class in the late 1990s.
Anticosti had astern refuelling gear fitted in 1995.
Anticosti was deployed by MARLANT in the annual MARCOT exercises as a minelayer.
After the Kingston-class was commissioned, Anticosti was identified as surplus and decommissioned in 2000.
In 2011 the Anticosti ship is one research vessel and his IMO 7314723 and she working in Newfoundland.
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