 Des Groseilliers in 2006
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| History | |
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 Canada | |
| Name | Des Groseilliers |
| Namesake | Médard des Groseilliers |
| Operator | Canadian Coast Guard |
| Port of registry | Ottawa, Ontario |
| Builder | Port Weller Dry Docks Limited, St. Catharines, Ontario |
| Yard number | 802160 |
| Launched | 20 February 1982 |
| Completed | October 1982 |
| Commissioned | August 1982 |
| In service | 1982–present |
| Refit | 1996 |
| Homeport | CCG Base Quebec City (Quebec Region) |
| Identification |
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| Status | in active service |
| General characteristics | |
| Class and type | Pierre Radisson-class icebreaker |
| Tonnage | |
| Displacement | 6,400 long tons (6,500 t) |
| Length | 98.24 m (322 ft 4 in) |
| Beam | 19.84 m (65 ft 1 in) |
| Draught | 7.44 m (24 ft 5 in) |
| Ice class | CASPPR Arctic Class 3 |
| Propulsion | Diesel electric – 6 Bombardier M251F-16v9 |
| Speed | 16.5 knots (30.6 km/h) |
| Range | 30,600 nmi (56,700 km) |
| Endurance | 108 days |
| Complement | 38 (12 officers, 26 crew) |
| Sensors and processing systems | 1 × Sperry navigational radar |
| Aircraft carried | originally 1 × MBB Bo 105 or Bell 206L helicopter, currently 1 × Bell 429 Global Ranger or 1 × Bell 412EPI |
| Aviation facilities | Hangar and flight deck |
CCGS Des Groseilliers[note 1] is a Pierre Radisson-class icebreaker in the Canadian Coast Guard. The vessel is named after Médard Chouart des Groseilliers (1618–1669) a close associate of Pierre-Esprit Radisson in explorations west of the Great Lakes and the founding of the British Hudson's Bay Company. The ship entered service in 1982. The vessel has participated in a number of research voyages, including Ice Station SHEBA.[1] As part of the Surface Heat Budget of the Arctic Ocean experiment conducted in the Arctic Ocean from October 1997 to October 1998 to provide polar input to global climate models, Des Groseilliers was allowed to be frozen into the ice for the Arctic winter, to serve as a base for scientific researchers.
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- ^ Perovich, Donald; Moritz, Richard C. & Weatherly, John, "SHEBA: The Surface Heat Budget of the Arctic Ocean" (PDF), Arctic Research in the United States, vol. 17, no. Spring/Summer 2003 (03048 ed.), National Science Foundation, pp. 18–24, archived from the original (PDF) on 4 January 2019, retrieved 4 January 2019