CCGS Henry Larsen
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CCGS Henry Larsen is a Canadian Coast Guard
Canadian Coast Guard
The Canadian Coast Guard is the coast guard of Canada. It is a federal agency responsible for providing maritime search and rescue , aids to navigation, marine pollution response, marine radio, and icebreaking...
T1200 Class Medium Arctic icebreaker
Icebreaker
An icebreaker is a special-purpose ship or boat designed to move and navigate through ice-covered waters. Although the term usually refers to ice-breaking ships, it may also refer to smaller vessels .For a ship to be considered an icebreaker, it requires three traits most...
serving in the Newfoundland and Labrador
Newfoundland and Labrador
Newfoundland and Labrador is the easternmost province of Canada. Situated in the country's Atlantic region, it incorporates the island of Newfoundland and mainland Labrador with a combined area of . As of April 2011, the province's estimated population is 508,400...
Region and based in St John's, Newfoundland.
A "Medium Gulf/River icebreaker", the vessel is named after Henry Larsen, the commander of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police
Royal Canadian Mounted Police
The Royal Canadian Mounted Police , literally ‘Royal Gendarmerie of Canada’; colloquially known as The Mounties, and internally as ‘The Force’) is the national police force of Canada, and one of the most recognized of its kind in the world. It is unique in the world as a national, federal,...
patrol vessel St. Roch which was the first vessel to traverse the Northwest Passage
Northwest Passage
The Northwest Passage is a sea route through the Arctic Ocean, along the northern coast of North America via waterways amidst the Canadian Arctic Archipelago, connecting the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans...
in a single season.
The Canadian Coast Guard has two vessels in their "Heavy icebreaker" class, and four in the "Medium Gulf/River icebreaker" class. These are their only vessels capable of year-round operation in the high Arctic. These vessels all have a helicopter hangar and can carry and maintain a BO-105 helicopter, which is used for logistical purposes, as well as ice-spotting, and search and rescue.
A 2004 voyage of this vessel is the subject of the documentary film "Ice Breaker".
In 2008 *Discovery Channel
Discovery Channel
Discovery Channel is an American satellite and cable specialty channel , founded by John Hendricks and distributed by Discovery Communications. It is a publicly traded company run by CEO David Zaslav...
filmed an episode of *Mighty Ships
Mighty Ships
Mighty Ships is a documentary television program produced by Exploration Production Inc. in Canada. It is aired on Discovery Channel Canada and also broadcast around the world...
on the Larsen as she did a Ice Patrol around the Notre Dame Bay area of Newfoundland and Labrador.
In September 2009 the Henry Larsen participated in a training exercise with the Danish vessels HDMS Ejnar Mikkelsen
HDMS Ejnar Mikkelsen (P571)
HDMS Ejnar Mikkelsen is a Royal Danish Navy patrol vessel.Launched in November 2007, she is the second vessel of the Knud Rasmussen class. The normal patrol area of the Ejnar Mikkelsen, and her sister ships, will be the waters around Greenland....
and HDMS Hvidbjørnen
HDMS Hvidbjørnen (F360)
The HDMS Hvidbjoernen is a belonging to the Royal Danish Navy.-Service :Hvidbjoernen served as a platform for Commander Danish Task Group, in the period 1998-2002, whereafter her sister ship Thetis assumed the role.During a patrol in Faroes waters, the French trawler Bruix was suspected of...
.
CGS St. John's
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External links
- CCGS Henry Larsen, CCG's pages
- CCGS Henry Larsen, specs
- Ice Breaker documentary at the IMDb
- Ice Breaker documentary home page