Ship Details

Vancouver (C.C.G.S.)

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Photo Credit: Mark Horne

 
 
Registry #1 320965 (Canada) Registry #2 Registry #3
IMO# MMSI# VRN#
 
Name 1 1966 Vancouver (C.C.G.S.) Name 6
Name 2 Name 7
Name 3 Name 8
Name 4 Name 9
Name 5 Name 10
 
Year Built 1966 Place North Vancouver Area BC Country Canada
 
Designer (nk) Measurement (imp) 372.8' x 50.0' x 19.1'
Builder Burrard Drydock Co. Ltd. Measurement (metric) 126.2m x 15.2m x 5.3m
Hull (nk) Displacement
Gross Tonnage 5537 Type 1 Weather ship
Registered Tonnage Type 2
Engine 7500shp turbo-electric engine with two shafts ( - 18kts) and two automatic Babcock & Wilcox D-type boilers. Engine Manufacture (nk)
Repower Propulsion Screw
Rebuilds Call Sign CCGS
Pendant  # Masters
 
Owner(s)
In 1966-1982 she was a Canadian Coast Guard weather ship stationed at Ocean Station Papa..
 
Fate Registry closed Date 1984-06-26
 
Named Features
Significance of Name
 
Anecdotes
This vessel as built at a cost of $11 million. this vessel was launched by Mrs. Arthur Laing wife of the Minister of Northern Affairs and Natural Resources. This vessel had a complement of 96, could cruise 10,400 miles at 14 knots and carried one helicopter. This vessel had two automatic Babcock & Wilcox D-type boilers. this vessel was laid up in 1982. In 1983 this vessel was towed to San Francisco CA USA.
 
References
Moore, Captain John (1983); Canada List of Shipping; McGinley, C.D. & B. Collin (2001); Andy Nelson Coombs BC (Email to Nauticapedia 24/03/2023);
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