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The Canadian Coast Guard (CCG) maintains a fleet of sea- and lake-going vessels, hovercraft, and aircraft. The variety of equipment allows the CCG to perform its mandated functions of navaids and sea-going transportation management, search and rescue, marine pollution response and the support of other Canadian federal authorities.
The Canadian Coast Guard (CCG; French: Garde côtière canadienne, GCC) is the coast guard of Canada.Formed in 1962, the coast guard is tasked with marine search and rescue (SAR), communication, navigation, and transportation issues in Canadian waters, such as navigation aids and icebreaking, marine pollution response, and support for other Canadian government initiatives.
5.1 Canadian Coast Guard. 5.2 Royal Canadian Navy. 5.3 Commercial. 6 China. ... HMCS Labrador (1954–1961; transferred to Coast Guard) Harry DeWolf-class offshore ...
CFB Halifax employs 7,000 civilians and military staff, and hosts the Canadian Atlantic Fleet headquarters, HMC Dockyard Halifax, FMF Cape Scott, extensive maritime research facilities, an ammunition depot, and the four maritime squadrons of the Royal Canadian Air Force that deploy helicopters aboard ships.
In February 2017, a government report claiming poisoned water aboard some Canadian Coast Guard vessels named Private Robertson V.C., Corporal Teather C.V. and Constable Carrière among them. [28] While undergoing a refit at Sambro, Nova Scotia , on 17 November 2018 Corporal McLaren M.M.V. was released from the vessel's cradle, allegedly due to ...
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 designation Canadian Coast Guard Ship (CCGS; French: navire de la Garde côtière canadienne, NGCC [1]) is applied as a prefix to vessels in the Canadian Coast Guard. Prior to the formation of the Coast Guard in the 1960s ships operated by the Canadian Department of Fisheries and Oceans (now known as Fisheries and Oceans Canada) were named ...
CCGS Tanu [a] is a fisheries patrol vessel in service with the Canadian Coast Guard.The ship was constructed in 1968 by Yarrows at their yard in Esquimalt, British Columbia and entered service the same year.