Terry Fox (ship)

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Terry Fox
The Terry Fox in dry dock in St. John's, May 2008
The Terry Fox in dry dock in St. John's , May 2008
Ship data
flag CanadaCanada Canada
Ship type Icebreaker
Callsign CGTF
home port Ottawa
Owner Canadian Coast Guard
Shipyard Burrard Yarrows Corp. in North Vancouver
Launch 1983
Whereabouts in motion
Ship dimensions and crew
length
88 m ( Lüa )
width 17.8 m
Draft Max. 8.3 m
displacement 7007 long tons
Machine system
machine 4 × Stork-Werkspoor 8TM410
Machine
performance 		17,300 kW
Top
speed 		16 kn (30 km / h)
propeller 2 variable pitch propellers
Others
Registration
numbers 		IMO: 8127799

The Terry Fox is an icebreaker for the Canadian Coast Guard . The ship has polar class 4 .

Ship data

The Terry Fox is one of the two active heavy icebreakers of the Canadian Coast Guard , alongside the Louis S. St-Laurent . The ship is registered in Ottawa and is based in St. John's , Newfoundland and Labrador . The ship is assigned to the Canadian Coast Guard's Atlantic Fleet.

The ship is equipped with an on- board crane and a powerful winch . The communication equipment includes radio on all bands and an Inmarsat system. Radar systems ( X-band and S-band ) and sonar are also available.

history

The ship was owned by the Burrard Yarrows Corp. built in North Vancouver , British Columbia and commissioned in 1983. It was named after the Canadian athlete Terrance Stanley Fox (1958–1981), who was diagnosed with bone cancer at the age of 18 and lost a leg as a result. In 1980 he started the “Marathon of Hope” across Canada to raise money for cancer research.

In April 2017, the Terry Fox tried  to break a route through the ice for the passenger ship Bella Desgagnés . The ship was supposed to transport people and material, but got into trouble because of the ice. The light icebreaker Earl Gray and the medium icebreaker Henry Larsen were unable to clear a route. The Terry Fox did not make it and the action had to be canceled.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ http://www.jproc.ca/rrp/appendg_ab.html , accessed November 29, 2017
  2. ↑ http://www.ccg-gcc.gc.ca/Fleet/Vessel?vessel_id=108
  3. ↑ http://www.ccg-gcc.gc.ca/Fleet/Vessel?vessel_id=108
  4. ↑ http://www.ccg-gcc.gc.ca/Fleet/Vessel?vessel_id=108
  5. ↑ http://www.ccg-gcc.gc.ca/e0003711
  6. ↑ http://www.ccg-gcc.gc.ca/Fleet/Vessel?vessel_id=108
  7. ^ Government of Canada, Fisheries and Oceans Canada: Vessel. Retrieved November 29, 2017 .
  8. ↑ 5300 kilometers of hope . In: sueddeutsche.de . September 1, 2010, ISSN  0174-4917 ( sueddeutsche.de [accessed November 29, 2017]).
  9. ↑ Quebec ship gives up after 6-day battle with ice, passengers fly home . In: CBC News . ( cbc.ca [accessed November 27, 2017]).

literature

  • Charles D. Maginley: The Canadian Coast Guard 1962-2002. Vanwell Publishing Ltd., St. Catharines Ontario 2003. ISBN 1-55125-075-6 .