CCGS Simon Fraser
| History | |
|---|---|
 Canada |
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| Name: | Simon Fraser |
| Namesake: | Simon Fraser |
| Port of registry: | Ottawa |
| Builder: | Burrard Dry Dock, Vancouver |
| Launched: | 1960 |
| Commissioned: | 1960 |
| Decommissioned: | March 2001[1] |
| Refit: | Versatile Marine, Montreal, Québec, 1986 |
| Identification: |
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| Fate: | Sold, and currently being converted to yacht |
| General characteristics [2] | |
| Type: | Icebreaking, supply and buoy tender |
| Tonnage: | |
| Length: | 62.26 m (204 ft 3 in) |
| Beam: | 12.8 m (42 ft 0 in) |
| Draft: | 4.27 m (14 ft 0 in) |
| Ice class: | 100 A1 |
| Propulsion: |
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| Speed: | 13.8 knots (25.6 km/h; 15.9 mph) |
| Range: | 5,000 nmi (9,300 km; 5,800 mi) at 10 knots (19 km/h; 12 mph) |
| Endurance: | 20 days |
| Complement: | 24 |
| Aviation facilities: | Helicopter deck aft |
CCGS Simon Fraser was a buoy tender operated by the Canadian Coast Guard.[4][5][6]
She was built by Burrard Dry Dock in Vancouver, British Columbia in 1960. She was modernized in 1986, at Versatile Marine, Montreal, Quebec. She displaces 1353 gross tons. She was staffed by a crew of 24.
She played a role in searching for wreckage that could show the cause of the crash of Swissair Flight 111.[7]
In 2000 she escorted the Nadon on a transit of the Northwest Passage, which was recreating the historic 1940-42 transit of the RCMP St Roch.[8] The Nadon's transit was a millennium project. This was the Simon Fraser's last voyage prior to her decommissioning.[9]
After her decommissioning the Simon Fraser, and her sister ship the CCGS Tupper (since then Tupper was not sold for conversion and now waiting for disposal), was sold for conversion into a yacht and charter vessel in Italy.[9]
As of June 2012 she is still in drydock at Livorno, Italy, undergoing conversion.[10]
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