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CCGS Arpatuuq (Inuktitut:) is a future Canadian Coast Guard icebreaker that will be built under the Polar Icebreaker Project as part of the National Shipbuilding Strategy.The ship was initially expected to join the fleet by 2017 but has been significantly delayed and is now expected by 2030.
The Pierre Radisson-class icebreakers, also known as R-class icebreakers, are a class of four icebreakers constructed for and operated by the Canadian Coast Guard. The Canadian Coast Guard designates the four ships in the class as medium icebreakers. Built in two phases, the first three ships, Pierre Radisson, Franklin and Des Groseilliers ...
Canadian Coast Guard CCGS ... (1982–2012; transferred to the China Coast Guard) Type 272 icebreaker. Haibing 722 (海冰722, "Sea Ice 722") (2016–)
CCGS Amundsen [note 1] is a Pierre Radisson-class icebreaker and Arctic research vessel operated by the Canadian Coast Guard.The vessel entered service in 1979 as Franklin and was renamed Sir John Franklin in 1980 and served as such until 1996.
CCGS Louis S. St-Laurent (French: NGCC Louis S. St-Laurent) is a Canadian Coast Guard (CCG) heavy icebreaker. Louis S. St-Laurent ' s home port is St. John's, Newfoundland and Labrador. [6] She is the largest icebreaker and flagship of the CCG. [7] The ship is named after Louis St. Laurent, who served as the 12th prime minister of Canada from ...
Finland has 12 icebreakers and Canada has nine, while Russia has 36, according to U.S. Coast Guard data. President Joe Biden, Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and Finnish President Alexander ...
The icebreaker has a flight deck and hangar which originally accommodated light helicopters of the MBB Bo 105 or Bell 206L types, but in the 2010s, the Bell 429 GlobalRanger and Bell 412EPI were acquired by the Canadian Coast Guard to replace the older helicopters. [5] The ship can carry 25.9 m 3 (910 cu ft) of aviation fuel for the helicopters.
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 ...