CCGS Sir Wilfrid Laurier | |
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![]() CCGS Sir Wilfrid Laurier | |
Career (Canada) | ![]() |
Name: | CCGS Sir Wilfrid Laurier |
Namesake: | Sir Wilfrid Laurier, Prime Minister |
Operator: | Canadian Coast Guard |
Port of registry: | Ottawa, Ontario |
Builder: | Collingwood Shipbuilding, Collingwood, Ontario |
Yard number: | 807038 |
Commissioned: | 1986 |
In service: | 1986-present |
Homeport: | CCG Base Victoria, British Columbia (Pacific Region) |
Identification: | CGJK |
Status: | in active service, as of 2025[update] |
General characteristics | |
Class & type: | Type 1100 light icebreaker |
Displacement: | 3,812.08 tonnes (4,202.10 short tons) |
Length: | 83 m (272 ft 4 in) |
Beam: | 16.2 m (53 ft 2 in) |
Draft: | 6 m (19 ft 8 in) |
Ice class: | Arctic Class 2 |
Propulsion: | Diesel AC - (3x) ALCO 251-16V |
Speed: | 15.5 knots (28.7 km/h; 17.8 mph) |
Range: | 20,200 nautical miles (37,400 km; 23,200 mi) |
Endurance: | 120 days |
Boats & landing craft carried: |
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Complement: | 26 |
Aircraft carried: | 1 × MBB Bo 105 helicopter |
Aviation facilities: | Hangar |
The CCGS Sir Wilfrid Laurier is a light icebreaker and Major Navaids Tender of the Canadian Coast Guard.[1] Built in 1986 by Canadian Shipbuilding, Collingwood, Ontario, Canada the ship currently is based out of Victoria, British Columbia.
Laurier is a multi-tasked vessel which carries out a wide variety of Coast Guard programs including, but not limited to; buoy tending, search and rescue, science work, lightstation re-supply, beacon maintenance, radio repeater site maintenance, and icebreaking/escorting, aids to navigation and science work during summer patrols in the Arctic.
The vessel has been employed on research voyages[2] and the rescue of survivors of the M/V Queen of the North.
Engine[]
Like CCGS Martha L. Black, Laurier has three locomotive engines, ALCO-Bombardier F251-16V.
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