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| Career |  |
|---|---|
| Commissioned: | 1979 |
| Modernized: | 2003 |
| Region: | Quebec |
| Home Port: | Quebec City, Quebec |
| Decommissioned: | Still active |
| Fate: | Still active |
| General characteristics | |
| Displacement: | 5,941 tons |
| Length: | 98.15 m |
| Beam: | 19.5 m |
| Draught: | 7.16 m |
| Propulsion: | Diesel-electric |
| Speed: | 16 knots |
| Range: | 15,000 nautical miles |
| Ice Class: | 100 A |
| Complement: | 38 |
| Aircraft: | 1 BO-105 Helicopter |
| Named After: | Roald Amundsen Polar Explorer |
CCGS Amundsen is a Canadian Coast Guard icebreaker and Arctic research ship. The ship was built in North Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada at the Burrard Dry Dock, and was launched in 1979. Her original name was the CCGS Sir John Franklin, after the accomplished, but ill-fated, Arctic explorer Sir John Franklin. Franklin died on an expedition to find the Northwest Passage. In July 1996, Canadian shipping company Canship contracted CCGS Sir John Franklin for use as an accommodations vessel during exploration work at a nickel mine in Voisey's Bay, Labrador. Decommissioned in 2000, CCGS Sir John Franklin was given new life in August 2003 as an Arctic Ocean research vessel after a consortium of Canadian universities and research centres, in partnership with the federal government, overhauled the vessel as a dedicated science ship. Renamed the CCGS Amundsen, after Norwegian explorer Roald Amundsen, the vessel is crewed by the Canadian Coast Guard which uses the ship in icebreaking service in the Gulf of St. Lawrence during the winter months, after which she is free for research assignments. One of the features of the refit was the addition of a moon pool, which enables scientists to lower scientific instruments without cutting a hole in the ice.
Sponsors:
Lily Schreyer is the sponsor of the CCGS Amundsen.
