CCGS Brant | |
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Career (Canada) | |
Name: |
CGS Brant CCGS Brant |
Namesake: | Joseph Brant |
Operator: |
Department of Marine Department of Transport Marine Service Canadian Coast Guard |
Builder: | Government Shipyard, Sorel, QC[1] |
Commissioned: | May 10, 1928 |
Homeport: | Dartmouth, Nova Scotia |
Identification: | None |
Fate: | Decommissioned 1966 |
General characteristics | |
Type: | Buoy and lighthouse (navigation aid) tender |
Displacement: | 285 tonnes (314.16 short tons) |
Length: | 125 ft (38 m) |
Beam: | 23 ft (7.0 m) |
Draft: | 12 ft (3.7 m) |
Ice class: | N/A |
Propulsion: | Coal-burning steamship |
CCGS Brant was a Canadian Coast Guard Ship operating as a navigation aids vessel between 1928 and 1966.[2]
Commissioned in 1928, as CGS Brant (using the prefix "Canadian Government Ship"), she saw service as a navigation aids vessel in the Department of Transport's Marine Service, stationed in Dartmouth, Nova Scotia.
With the creation of the Canadian Coast Guard in 1962, she was known as CCGS Brant. The last Coal-burner in the Canadian Government service, she was decommissioned in 1966.
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