CCGS Cape Discovery
 CCGS Cape Sutil at Port Hardy | |
| Career (Canada) |  |
|---|---|
| Name: | Cape Discovery |
| Namesake: | Cape Discovery |
| Operator: | Canadian Coast Guard |
| Port of registry: | Ottawa, Ontario |
| Builder: | Victoria Shipyards Limited, Victoria, BC |
| Yard number: | 826714 |
| Christened: | 2004 |
| Homeport: | CCG Base Amherstburg, ON - Central and Arctic Region |
| Status: | in active service, as of 2015 |
| General characteristics | |
| Class and type: | Cape Class lifeboat |
| Type: | SAR Lifeboat |
| Tonnage: | 33.8 gross register tons (GRT) 25.3 net register tonnage (NRT) |
| Length: | 14.6 m (47 ft 11 in) |
| Beam: | 4.27 m (14 ft 0 in) |
| Draft: | 1.37 m (4 ft 6 in) |
| Propulsion: | 2 × diesel electric engines, 675 kW |
| Speed: | 22 knots (41 km/h) cruise |
| Range: | 200 nmi (370 km) |
| Endurance: | 1 day |
| Complement: | 4 |
The CCGS Cape Discovery is one of the Canadian Coast Guard's 36 Cape class motor life boat.[1][2]` She is stationed at Goderich, Ontario.
At the vessel's official christening, on June 10, 2006, the Minister of Fisheries and Oceans Canada, Loyola Hearn, said:[1] "Having this state-of-the-art vessel for our personnel provides them with greater safety, as they aid those in distress -- very often in conditions that put their own lives at risk. With the cutter Cape Discovery, we are well positioned to respond to emergency calls, twenty-four hours a day, seven days a week."
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 Carol Bond (2006-06-10). "Canadian Coast Guard Christens New Search and Rescue Vessel in Sarnia, Ontario". Canadian Coast Guard. Archived from the original on 2010-01-04.
- ↑ "Canadian Coast Guard on the Job". Canadian Coast Guard. 2007-11-01. Archived from the original on 2010-01-04.
That very same day, the ROC had another report concerning a gallon of paint spilled off a scaffold of a commercial vessel in Goderich harbour. The water was cold and the wind and wave conditions were favourable for recovery operations. The paint blew in against the wharf alongside the CCG Search and Rescue base. The Captain (Erin Vincent) and crew of the Cape Discovery used their ingenuity to recover the solidifying, coagulated globs of blue paint. They improvised, inventing a makeshift recovery device, fastening a sifter to a boathook with electrical tape. The majority of the paint was recovered.
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