Originally delivered in 2020, the icebreaker is the third of three former offshore AHTS ships and transformed to medium icebreakers for the Canadian Coast Guard
Davie Shipbuilding, Lévis, Quebec, reviews that the medium icebreaker CCGS Vincent Massey was delivered to the Canadian Coast Guard yesterday.
The CCGS Vincent Massey will be part of its two sister vessels, CCGS Captain Molly Kool and CCGS Jean Goodwill that are already in service
The 83.7 meter lengthy vessel, initially delivered by Norway’s Havyard Leirvik sgipyard, in 2011, is one in all three former offshore AHTS ships — Viking II, Balder Viking and Vidar Viking —acquired by Davie from Viking Supply Ships AB in 2018 and transformed to medium icebreakers for the Canadian Coast Guard below a contract awarded in 2018
The ships had been acquired and transformed below Canada’s National Shipbuilding Strategy to make sure the continuation of important icebreaking providers in Atlantic Canada, the St. Lawrence and the Great Lakes, in addition to the Arctic, throughout vessel life extension and restore intervals to the present fleet.
As nicely as serving to make sure the Canadian Coast Guard continues to ship important icebreaking providers, preserving delivery routes open and secure whereas stopping ice jams and flooding, the CCGS Vincent Massey can also be geared up to help aids to navigation and supply emergency providers equivalent to search and rescue and environmental response.
CCGS Vincent Massey has 4 medium-speed diesel engines geared to 2 controllable pitch propellers in nozzles with a complete propulsion energy of 13,440 kW (18,020 hp). She can obtain a most velocity of 16 knots (30 km/h) in open water and break 1-meter ice at a steady velocity of three knots (5.6 km/h). She is 83.7 metres lengthy general.
The whole contract worth for the acquisition and conversion of the three medium icebreakers was CAD 912.5 million which incorporates the acquisition of the three vessels.
The conversion and refit for the CCGS Vincent Massey included growing the crew lodging capability, including a heavy raise crane, growing icebreaking functionality and ship endurance. As nicely, work was required to fulfill Coast Guard operational and Canadian regulatory necessities.
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