CCGS Terry Fox
 During spring refit and maintenance, May 2008, St. John's, Newfoundland, Canada |
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| Name: | MV Terry Fox CCGS Terry Fox |
| Namesake: | Terry Fox |
| Operator: | Canadian Coast Guard |
| Port of registry: | Ottawa, Ontario |
| Builder: | Burrard Yarrows Corporation, Vancouver, British Columbia |
| Yard number: | 803579 |
| Launched: | 1983 |
| Commissioned: | 1992 |
| In service: | 1992-present |
| Homeport: | CCG Base St. John's, NL (Newfoundland and Labrador Region) |
| Identification: | CGTF |
| Status: | in active service, as of 2012[update] |
| General characteristics | |
| Class and type: | Class 4 Icebreaker |
| Type: | Heavy Gulf (and Arctic) Ice Breaker |
| Displacement: | 4,234 tonnes (4,667.19 short tons) |
| Length: | 88 m (288 ft 9 in) |
| Beam: | 17.8 m (58 ft 5 in) |
| Draft: | 8.3 m (27 ft 3 in) |
| Ice class: | Arctic Class 4 |
| Propulsion: | Diesel - (4x) Stork - Werkspoor 8TM 410 |
| Speed: | 16 knots (30 km/h) |
| Range: | 1,920 nmi (3,560 km) |
| Endurance: | 58 days |
| Boats and landing craft carried: |
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| Complement: | 24 |
| Sensors and processing systems: |
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| Aircraft carried: | 1 × MBB Bo 105 helicopter |
| Aviation facilities: | No |
CCGS Terry Fox is a Canadian Coast Guard Heavy Gulf (and Arctic) icebreaker.
Named after the late cancer research activist Terry Fox, the vessel was built in 1983 as MV Terry Fox by Burrard Yarrows Corporation in Vancouver, British Columbia. Terry Fox, along with her sister ship MV Arctic Kalvik supported Gulf Oil's operations in the Beaufort Sea during the 1980s. Not limited to escorting tankers through ice, these multipurpose ships were designed to act as heavy tugs and supply vessels to support offshore oil rig platforms in a hostile environment.
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[edit] History
Terry Fox was acquired by the Canadian Coast Guard in 1992 and renamed CCGS Terry Fox. Classed as a "Heavy Gulf Icebreaker" by the coast guard, she is stationed at CCG Base Southside in St. John's, Newfoundland and operates in the Gulf of St. Lawrence during the winter ice season and in Canada's eastern Arctic during the summer shipping season, assisting in escorting the annual Arctic summer sealift to coastal communities. The vessel was transferred from the CCG Base Dartmouth in Dartmouth, Nova Scotia on April 1, 2008.
[edit] Other CCG Icebreakers
Terry Fox is the sister ship to Vladimir Ignatyuk (formerly Arctic Kalvik).
- CCGS Pierre Radisson - icebreaker
- CCGS Louis S. St-Laurent - icebreaker
- CCGS Leonard J. Cowley - multi role
- CCGS Cygnus - patrol vessel
- CCGS Henry Larsen - icebreaker
- CCGS Ann Harvey
- CCGS Sir Wilfred Grenfell
- CCGS George R. Pearkes - icebreaker
- CCGS Wilfred Templeman
[edit] References
- Canadian Coast Guard CGCS Terry Fox web page Retrieved 2008 05 21.
- Nunatsiaq News Newspaper story about the Terry Fox Retrieved 2008 05 21.
