Ship Details

Labrador (H.M.C.S.)

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Photo Credit: William Best Bailey

 
 
Registry #1 310129 (Canada) Registry #2 Registry #3
IMO# 5201336 MMSI# VRN#
 
Name 1 1953 Labrador (H.M.C.S.) Name 6
Name 2 1958 Labrador (C.C.G.S.) Name 7
Name 3 Name 8
Name 4 Name 9
Name 5 Name 10
 
Year Built 1953 Place Sorel Area QC Country Canada
 
Designer (nk) Measurement (imp) 250' x 64' x 29'
Builder Marine Industries Ltd. Measurement (metric) 76.2m x 19.5m x 8.8m
Hull Steel Displacement
Gross Tonnage 3823 Type 1 Patrol vessel, Arctic Icebreaking
Registered Tonnage 1589 Type 2
Engine 6 × 10-cylinder diesel engines (6 × 2,000 bhp Engine Manufacture (nk)
Repower Propulsion Twin Screw
Rebuilds Call Sign CGVM; CGGM;
Pendant  # Masters
 
Owner(s)
In 1953-1958 she was owned by the Royal Canadian Navy. In 1958-1987 she was owned by the Canadian Coast Guard, Ottawa ON.
 
Fate Registry closed Date 1987-00-00
 
Named Features
Significance of Name
 
Anecdotes
In 1954 H.M.C.S. Labrador under command of Captain O. C. S. Robertson RCN this vesselmade an East to West Transit of the Northwest Pasage (the first warship to Transit and to Circumnavigate North America). In 1956 H.M.C.S. Labrador under the command of Captain T.C. Pullen RCN this vesselmade an East to West Transit of the North est passage. Under the command of Captain T. C. Pullen RCN in 1957 this vesselescorted the US Coast Guard Squadron through Bellot Strait and Eastern Arctic as a partial transit of the northwest Passage. this vessel was renamed as Labrador this vessel was owned by The Minister of Transport (Canadian Coast Guard), Ottawa ON. In 1989 this vessel was reported to have been broken up in the Far East.
 
References
Jane's Fighting Ships; Maginley, C.D. & B. Collin (2001); MacFarlane, J.M. (1992) Northwest Passage Challengers. In Resolution. Spring Issue. Maritime Museum of British Columbia; Government of Canada The Canadian Navy List Ottawa ON; Freeman, David J. (2000)
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