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Like their Royal Canadian Navy equivalents, the Canadian Coast Guard AOPS vessels will certainly include seawater-lubricated bearings.[Image: Irving Shipbuilding]
Thordon Bearings has actually been granted an agreement to provide seawater-lubricated bearings for installment on the initial of 2 customized variations of Canada’s Harry DeWolf-class of Arctic and also Offshore Patrol Ships (AOPS). The brand-new ships get on order for the Canadian Coast Guard (CCG) at Irving Shipbuilding’s Halifax Shipyard, where steel for the initial was reduced on August 8.
The CCG AOPS are variations of the 6 AOPS that Halifax Shipyard is constructing for the Royal Canadian Navy (RCN), every one of which attribute Thordon’s seawater-lubricated bearings.
Three RCN ice-capable AOPS have actually currently been supplied, with the 4th in the collection, the future HMCS William Hall, presently suitable out.
The initially AOPS at a loss and also white livery of a CCG vessel, arranged for distribution in 2027, will certainly include a set of seawater-lubricated COMPAC prop shaft bearings machined to fit 480 mm (18.8 inch) size shafts. Thordon’s Water Quality Package and also SXL tail bearings are likewise consisted of in the extent of supply.
“The performance and reliability of the Thordon arrangement aboard the first three RCN AOPS – HMCS Harry DeWolf, HMCS Margaret Brooke, and HMCS Max Bernays, which are now operational – together with a long history supplying navies and coast guards around the world, is the primary reason Thordon is continually trusted to deliver critical components to Canadian built combatants and patrol vessels,” stated Scott Groves, Thordon Bearing’s VP sales.
“As environmental considerations increase in shipbuilding, a number of partners are helping to ensure that the power produced by Canada’s new Arctic and Offshore Patrol Ships (AOPS) will move the vessels in an efficient, reliable, and environmentally safe manner,” statesIrving Shipbuilding “Thordon Bearings, an Ontario-based designer and manufacturer of high-performance bearings, seals, and other shaft line products for the global marine industry, is a key part of these efforts.”
The shipbuilder included that Canada’s National Shipbuilding Strategy provides residential business like Thordon Bearings the chance to introduce brand-new innovations, remain to expand, and also locate future export chances.
In enhancement to its participation in the AOPS program, Thordon Bearings has actually played a vital duty in the success of the Royal Canadian Navy’s Halifax- course frigates. Those ships are readied to be changed by the brand-new Canadian Surface Combatants, based upon BAE Systems Type 26 frigate layout. Irving Shipbuilding is readied to accumulate to 15 of these ships under the National Shipbuilding Strategy and also simply the other day was granted a CAD $463 million agreement adjustment to update its framework for the job.