CCGS Cape Roger

Career (Canada) Canadian Coast Guard
Name: Cape Roger
Namesake: Cape Roger
Owner: Government of Canada
Operator: Canadian Coast Guard
Port of registry: Ottawa, Ontario
Builder: Ferguson Industries Ltd., Pictou
Yard number: 371732
Commissioned: 1977
In service: 1977-present
Refit: 1996
Homeport: CCG Base St. John's, NL
Identification: VCBT
Status: in active service, as of 2015
General characteristics
Class and type:Offshore Patrol Vessel
Displacement:1,255 tonnes (1,383.40 short tons)
Tons burthen:357 tonnes (393.53 short tons)
Length:62.5 m (205.05 ft)
Beam:12.1 m (39.70 ft)
Draught:5.3 m (17.39 ft)
Ice class:100 A1 Class 2
Installed power:3,278 kilowatts (4,395.87 bhp)
Propulsion:2 × Polar 12-cylinder diesel turbo engines
Speed:12 knots (22.22 km/h)
Range:10,000 nautical miles (18,520.0 km)
Endurance:31 days
Boats and landing
craft carried:
  • 2 × Zodiac Hurricane RHIB
  • 2 × workboat/lifeboat
Complement:19
Aircraft carried:flight deck no longer useable
Aviation facilities:no

CCGS Cape Roger is an Offshore Patrol Vessel operated by the Canadian Coast Guard.

The vessel was built at Ferguson Industries Ltd., Pictou and commissioned into the CCG in 1977. She underwent a modernization at Shelburne Marine, Shelburne in 1996.

CCGS Cape Roger is homeported at CCG Base St. John's in St. John's, Newfoundland and Labrador.

In 2010 the Cape Roger underwent another refit at the SMI drydocks on the Welland Canal, located in St Catharines Ontario.

References

  1. ^ CCGS Cape Roger - official CCG webpage,