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It was acquired by Vancouver Tug in 1954. In 1968 [9] or 1969, [8] both Vancouver Tug and Vancouver Shipyards were acquired by Dillingham Corporation and moved to their present site at the foot of Pemberton Avenue in North Vancouver, where a larger shipyard was established. Since that time the company has constructed, outfitted, or converted ...
The Polar Icebreaker Project (previously Polar Class Icebreaker Project) is an ongoing Canadian shipbuilding program under the National Shipbuilding Strategy. [6] Announced in 2008 with an intention to replace the ageing CCGS Louis S. St-Laurent with a new polar icebreaker by 2017, the program has faced multiple delays and changes, and as of 2024 consists of two planned icebreakers, CCGS ...
Dennis R. Washington (born 1934) is an American billionaire industrialist who owns, or co-owns controlling interests in, a large consortium of privately held companies collectively known as the Washington Companies and, in Canada, another collection of companies known as the Seaspan Marine Corporation.
In 2010, the federal government incorporated the project into the National Shipbuilding Strategy. On 2 June 2013, ThyssenKrupp Marine Systems Canada's Berlin-class replenishment ship was selected. The Canadian vessels will be a variant of the Berlin class, built at Seaspan's yard in North Vancouver, British Columbia. [12] [13] [14]
Komsomolsk-on-Amur: Amur Shipbuilding Plant (1932–) Nizhny Novgorod: Krasnoye Sormovo (1849–) Polyarny: Russian Shipyard Number 10 (1935–) Rybinsk: Vympel Shipyard (1930–) Saint Petersburg. Admiralty Shipyard (1704-) Almaz (1901–) Baltic Shipyard (1864–) Kronstadt Marine Plant (1858–) Petrozavod (1721-2001) Severnaya Verf ...
[9] [10] The construction was awarded to Seaspan Vancouver Shipyards on 19 October 2019, followed by a design contract for a team led by STX Canada Marine in 3 February 2012. [ 11 ] In May 2013, the Vancouver Sun reported that the polar icebreaker and the Royal Canadian Navy's new joint support ships faced a scheduling conflict and that the ...
The first vessel constructed under the NSS, CCGS Sir John Franklin, was launched at Seaspan's shipyard in North Vancouver on 8 December 2017. [38] On 5 February 2019, the Canadian government changed the build order of ships at the Seaspan yard, placing the construction of one of the planned naval replenishment ships ahead of the Coast Guard's ...
The ship was ordered in 2011 as part of the Canadian National Shipbuilding Procurement Strategy (NSPS) as a replacement for aging Canadian Coast Guard vessels. Capt. Jacques Cartier is the sister ship of CCGS Sir John Franklin and CCGS John Cabot. The ship was constructed at Seaspan Shipyard, Vancouver, British Columbia and launched on 5 June 2019.