CCGS Cygnus

Career (Canada)
Name: Cygnus
Namesake: Cygnus, constellation in the northern hemisphere
Operator: Canadian Coast Guard
Port of registry: Ottawa, Ontario
Builder: Marystown Shipyard, Marystown, Newfoundland and Labrador
Yard number: 800742
Commissioned: 1982
Refit: 1996
Homeport: CGS Base St. John's, St. John's, Newfoundland and Labrador
Identification: CGDW
Status: in active service, as of 2015
General characteristics
Type:high endurance all weather, offshore ice strengthened multiple role patrol vessel
Displacement:1,255 tonnes (1,383.40 short tons)
Length:62.5 m (205 ft 1 in)
Beam:12.1 m (39 ft 8 in)
Draft:5.3 m (17 ft 5 in)
Ice class:100 A1 Class 2
Propulsion:geared diesel - (2 × ) Nohab 12 cyl
Speed:16 knots (30 km/h)
Range:10,800 nmi (20,000 km)
Endurance:25 days
Complement:19
Aircraft carried:1 × MBB BO 105 helicopter
Aviation facilities:hangar

Canadian Coast Guard Ship Cygnus is a high endurance all weather, offshore ice strengthened multi patrol vessel of the Canadian Coast Guard.[1]

She was built in 1982 in Marystown Shipbuilding and underwent a modernization in 1996. CCGS Cygnus has a hangar and flight deck capable of operating a Eurocopter BO-105 helicopter.

Cygnus' home port is St. John's, Newfoundland and Labrador[2] and is stationed there with other CGS ships.

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