Ship Details

Pierre Radisson (C.C.G.S.)

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Registry #1 383326 (Canada) Registry #2 Registry #3
IMO# 7510834 MMSI# VRN#
 
Name 1 1978 Pierre Radisson (C.C.G.S.) Name 6
Name 2 Name 7
Name 3 Name 8
Name 4 Name 9
Name 5 Name 10
 
Year Built 1978 Place North Vancouver Area BC Country Canada
 
Designer German & Milne Measurement (imp) 288.5' x 64.0' x 26.5'
Builder Burrard Drydock Co. Ltd. Measurement (metric) 93.03m x 19.51m x 10.82m
Hull Steel Displacement
Gross Tonnage 5910 Type 1 Icebreaker
Registered Tonnage 1678 Type 2
Engine 13600bhp T/S diesel-electric engine (1978) Engine Manufacture Bombardier-Alco
Repower Propulsion Screw
Rebuilds Call Sign CGSB
Pendant  # Masters
 
Owner(s)
In 1978-1979 she was owned by The Minister of Transport, Ottawa ON. In 2004-2019 she was owned by The Minister of Fisheries & Oceans, Ottawa ON.
 
Fate Afloat in 2019 Date 0000-00-00
 
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Significance of Name
 
Anecdotes
This vessel was a sister ship to the Franklin.this vessel was a Canadian Coast Guard Arctic Class III Icebreaker which, in 1978, made a West to East Transit of the Northwest Passage under her Master, Captain P. Toomey. this was the maiden voyage. In 1980 this vesselmade a partial transit of the Northwest Passage while accompanying the Irving Arctic and the Irving Birch into the Arctic Islands from the Atlantic Ocean and return. In 1990 under the command of Captain P. Toomey this vesselcompleted a partial transit of the Northwest Passage westward to accompany the USCGC Polar Sea through Lancaster Sound, Peel Sound, Demarcation Point and return.
 
References
Canada List of Shipping; Maginley, C.D. & B. Collin (2001); MacFarlane, J.M. (1992) Northwest Passage Challengers. In Resolution. Spring Issue. Maritime Museum of British Columbia; Canada List of Shipping
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