Katherine Bickford

CCGS Tupper  was a Canadian Coast Guard ice-strengthened buoy tender that served from 1959 to 1998. The vessel spent her entire career on the East Coast of Canada. Following her Canadian service, Tupper was sold to private interests with the intention of converting her to a yacht, but the conversion never happened and the vessel moved about Halifax Harbour, suffering a fire in 2008 before being sold for scrap in 2011.

Tupper in in Marie Joseph, NS

The vessel was not scrapped and the Canadian Coast Guard was forced to address the pollution concerns of the abandoned vessel in 2021.

• Tonnage    1,358 GRT
• Displacement    1,876 long tons (1,906 t)
• Length    62.4 m (204 ft 9 in)
• Beam    12.8 m (42 ft 0 in)
• Draught    4.2 m (13 ft 9 in)
• Installed power    2,900 shp (2,200 kW)
• Propulsion    Diesel-electric
• Speed    14 knots (26 km/h; 16 mph)
• Aircraft carried    1 × helicopter