CCGS Sir Wilfrid Laurier

CCGS Sir Wilfrid Laurier

The CCGS "Sir Wilfrid Laurier" is a light icebreaker and Major Navaids Tender of the Canadian Coast Guard.ref|Ccg Built in 1986 by Canadian Shipbuilding, Collingwood, Ontario, Canada the ship currently is based out of Victoria, British Columbia.

The "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 voyagesref|Army and the rescue of survivors of the M/V "Queen of the North".

References

* [http://www.ccg-gcc.gc.ca/eng/Fleet/Vessels?id=1114 Official "Sir Wilfrid Laurier" web-page] , Canadian Coast Guard
* [http://www.crrel.usace.army.mil/sid/SeaIceDynamics/Beaufort.htm 2001-2002 BEAUFORT SEA ICE STRESS MEASUREMENT PROJECT] , "US Army"
* [http://www.ccg-gcc.gc.ca/eng/Fleet/Vessel_pdf?id=1114 Ships Specs] (pdf), Canadian Coast Guard


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