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Canadian Coast Guard Arun-class lifeboats
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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...
maintains a number of Canadian Coast Guard Arun-class lifeboats.
The Arun class lifeboat
Arun class lifeboat
The Arun class lifeboat is a fast all-weather lifeboat designed by the Royal National Lifeboat Institution for service at its stations around the coasts of Great Britain and Ireland. They were operated by the RNLI between 1971 and 2008...
s are considered "high endurance" lifeboats.
They are staffed by a crew of four.
The first vessels of this class were ordered in 1990.
The Canadian Coast Guard also maintains approximately three dozen smaller Cape class motor life boat
Cape class motor life boat
The Canadian Coast Guard maintains a fleet of Cape-class motor lifeboats, based on a motor lifeboat design used by the United States Coast Guard....
s.
They are considered "medium endurance" lifeboats.
Vessels
- CCGS Bickerton
- CCGS Cap aux Meules
- CCGS Clarks Harbour
- CCGS Courtney Bay
- CCGS Sambro
- CCGS Spindrift
- CCGS Spray
- CCGS W.G. George
- CCGS W. Jackman
- CCGS Westport