Vintage Canadian Coast Guard (CCG)

CGS/CMS/CCGS John A Macdonald Type: Icebreaker, triple screw Class: Heavy Icebreaker (later 'Type 1200') Service: 1960-1991 Built: 1960 Davie Shipbuilding Lauzon...Continue reading

CMS Grenville buoys on deck 1961 Image from Library and Archives Canada

Type: Sounding vessel, steel, twin screw Service: 1915-1975 Built: 1915 by Canadian Government Shipyard at Sorel QC Dimensions: 147' x 35' x 10' Tonnage: 584 GT... Propulsion: Compound Steam Horsepower: 532 IHP Sold: 1979 See more

DGS / CGS / CMS / CCGS Grenville Built by Polson Iron Works in Toronto 1914-15 for the Dominion Government. Stranded in a gale 06/12/1924 at Byng Inlet in Georgian Bay and spent the winter aground before being towed to Collingwood for repairs. She was the first vessel through the first of the Seaway locks (Iroquois Lock) on 26/11/1957. Sunk by ice pressure against the Valleyfield Bridge 18/12/68 Beauharnois Que.... Salvaged and scrapped at Sorel. She was 164 feet long, had a beam of 30 feet and a draft of 9.5 feet. She was a lighthouse supply and buoy vessel.

Shared from British Columbia Nautical History, as posted by Capt Bill Noon. https://www.facebook.com/126706770704358/videos/905869753240332/

(Also see album "Mikula #2: Training Vessel") The Canadian Coast Guard College was established in 1965 at Point Edward NS using the facilities of the former Naval "Stone Frigate" HMCS Protector. The CCGC moved to a newly-built facility in 1981, on the opposite side of Crawley's Creek.

Wikipedia says: The Royal Canadian Air Force has been authorized to purchase 16 CC-295s to replace its ageing fleet of CC-115 Buffalo and older-model C-130H Hercules search and rescue aircraft. They will be operated from Greenwood, Nova Scotia; Trenton, Ontario; Winnipeg, Manitoba, and Comox, British Columbia (418 Search and Rescue Operational Training Squadron). The aircraft will be primarily operated at CFB Comox, where Airbus is building an RCAF Search & Rescue Training Facility for the CC-295. The first aircraft is to be delivered in late 2019. A second aircraft arriving January 2020 is a trainer not included in the 16 aircraft ordered.

An appropriate post for these days of pandemic: The Dominion Government Ship (DGS) 'Madge' carrying out quarantine enforcement out of Vancouver. (G.T.P. Piers in the photo would be Grand Trunk Pacific) Image circa 1910s Image BC Archives

Anybody with a steam ticket want to work on the RMS Segwun, in Gravenhurst Ontario? Reportedly they are seeking a marine engineer with a steam certificate, for this season. Anyone interested should contact them through their website. https://realmuskoka.com/muskoka-steamships/... Apparently it is one of three active ships worldwide that still carries the 'Royal Mail Ship' designation. I know that the Queen Mary 2 is an 'RMS'. The other is a ferry serving the Isles of Scilly.

CCGS Alexander Henry before departing Thunder Bay to be decommissioned upon arrival at the Maritime Museum of the Great Lakes at Kingston ON May 1985 Back Row L-to-R Gerard Sosnowski (Steward)... Bob Forfar (Deckhand) Gord Callaghan (Deckhand) Don Lamondin (QM) Eric Sands (Deckhand) Frank Gnitzinger (Bosun) Alastair Outram (Cook) Blinky Burns (Deckhand) Mary (Steward) Gerry Martell (Cook) Jerry Hertzberg (Oiler) Gerry Gibson (QM) Marion Bond (Clerk) Bill Mack (Deckhand) Ron Drever (Deckhand) Ron Salerno (Oiler) Front Row L-to-R Paul Reid (Deckhand) Helen Brunet (Oiler) Yves Rene (2nd Engineer) Greg Rebec (3rd Engineer) Louis Guimond (1st Engineer) Brian Phoenix (Sr Engineer) Ray Trollope (Chief Engineer) Capt. Brian Tuomi (Commanding Officer) Bob Tremblay (Chief Mate) Phil Hanbidge (2nd Mate) Helene Parent (1st Mate) Peter Cole (3rd Mate) Eric Hagerman (Logistics Officer) John Cork (Nav Cadet) Jason Edge (Nav Cadet) Missing John Maynard (QM)

CGS / CMS / CCGS Montmorency In Service: 1957-1991 Type: Lighthouse supply and buoy vessel, twin screw Built: 1957 Davie Shipbuilding Lauzon Length: 165 ft... Beam: 34 ft Draft: 11 ft Tonnage: 751 GT Machinery: Diesel, twin propeller Horsepower: 1200 SHP Assigned: Laurentian Region Transferred: to Central Region Transferred: to Maritimes Region Decommissioned: 1991 Lay unused in Lunenburg NS for years after 1994 (and reportedly in Bridgewater NS for a time) Sold and Renamed: Lady Janet I Sold and Renamed: Lady Morency about 2010

CGS/CMS/CCGS Alexander Henry type: Light Icebreaker, Lighthouse Supply and buoy tender Port of Registry: Ottawa Official Number: IMO Number: 310138... Callsign: Length: 210 ft (64 m) Beam: 44 ft (13.4 m) Draft: 16 ft (4.9 m) Tonnage: 1674 GT Displacement: 3145 tonnes Propulsion: diesel twin propellers , 2 Fairbanks-Morse 10-cylinder 2-cycle diesel model 37F16 - (unique to the CCG) continuous rating, directly reversible, single acting, 10-cyl industrial diesels via marine fluid-drive couplings HP: 3550 SHP (2647 kW) Speed: 13.5 knots Ice Class: Complement: 34 (was once listed as 42) Built by: Canadian Shipbuilding & Engineering (Port Arthur Shipyard) at Port Arthur ON (later Thunder Bay ON) as CGS Alexander Henry Launched: 1959 Transferred: 1962 from DOT Marine Service to newly-formed Canadian Coast Guard Assigned: replaced CGS St Heliers - assigned to Parry Sound ON during summer months and Thunder Bay ON for icebreaking during winter months to assist ship movements between grain elevators within Thunder Bay Harbour and then get the harbour open as the ships get underway in the spring. - 1977-78 fitted with experimental air-cushion icebreaking platform bow ACT-100 - 1984 assigned to Newfoundland for three months to replace CCGS Sir Humphrey Gilbert which was being fitted with a new icebreaking bow Final Disposition: 1985 replaced by CCGS Samuel Risley and handed over to the Maritime Museum of the Great Lakes in Kingston ON to become a Museum Ship and Bed & Breakfast. Source Materials: - Usque Ad Mare A History of the Canadian Coast Guard and Marine Services - The Canadian Coast Guard 1962-2002 - The Ships of Canada’s Marine Services Named for: explorer, fur trader and diarist Alexander Henry the Younger (nephew of Alexander Henry the elder) , who led several summer expeditions 1803-1813 west from the Kaministiquia River (Fort William, now Thunder Bay).

CCGS Skidegate Marine Agency Tender Built: 1964 Builder: Allied Builders, Vancouver BC... Tonnage: 136 Machinery: Diesel Renamed: Casaco, renamed Marine Voyager Fatality: On October 4 1984 in Goose Bay NL, oiler Peter Colbert fell from the gangway and drowned.