Ship Details

Parizeau (C.C.G.S.)

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Registry #1 328076 (Canada) Registry #2 Registry #3
IMO# 6711728 MMSI# VRN#
 
Name 1 1967 Parizeau (C.C.G.S.) Name 6
Name 2 2001c 2001-04 Name 7
Name 3 2005 Destiny Empress Name 8
Name 4 Name 9
Name 5 Name 10
 
Year Built 1967 Place North Vancouver Area BC Country Canada
 
Designer (nk) Measurement (imp) 198.8' x 40.0' x 18.9'
Builder Burrard Drydock Co. Ltd. Measurement (metric) 64.5m x 12.2m x 4.6m
Hull Steel Displacement
Gross Tonnage 1328.08 Type 1 Research vessel
Registered Tonnage 360.63 Type 2
Engine 2640bhp diesel engine (1967) Engine Manufacture Deutz AG
Repower Propulsion Twin Screw
Rebuilds Call Sign CGBS
Pendant  # Masters
 
Owner(s)
In 1967 she was owned by the Minister of Mines & Technical Surveys. In 1967-2004 she was a survey vessel owned by Minister of Fisheries and Oceans, Ottawa ON. In 2005-2020 she was owned by Empress Investment Group Ltd., Oakville ON.
 
Fate Afloat in 2020 Date 0000-00-00
 
Named Features
Significance of Name For Henri Parizeau, Director of Hydrographic Office Victoria BC for 25 years.
 
Anecdotes
In 1967 this vessel was christened by Mrs. Henri Parizeau. this vessel was based at Dartmouth NS. In 2015 the Destiny Empress was believed to be docked in Trinidad and Tobago for some time for repairs prior to departing for Europe. On December 22, 2009, a joint European law enforcement team, including Spanish Police and Italy's Air Maritime Exploration Squadron Guardia di Finanza (a special flight Squadron of the Italy' GDF Air Service), acting on intelligence from the London Metropolitan Police, seized the ship and arrested the seven person crew 200 nmi (370 km) west of Spain's northwest coast. After several days of searching, officers found a secret compartment under a trap door that had been bolted down with an aluminum plate and covered by carpet in one of the Destiny Empress '​s rooms. The sealed compartment contained 1.5 t (1.5 long tons) of cocaine with an estimated street value of £375 million, according to UK police. Alec Scoones Reports (British Columbia Nautical History Facebook Group 22/02/2019) that "broken up in Turkey, after being seized off Spain in a cocaine smuggling scheme."
 
References
Canada List of Shipping; Maginley, C.D. & B. Collin (2001);
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