Katherine Bickford

Sir Wilfrid Laurier in Victoria

CCGS Sir Wilfrid Laurier is a light icebreaker and Major Navaids Tender of the Canadian Coast Guard. Built in 1986 by Canadian Shipbuilding at Collingwood,Ontario, Canada, she was the last ship built there.

Sir Wilfrid Laurier is a multi-tasked vessel which carries out a wide variety of Coast Guard programs including buoy tending, search and rescue, science work, light station re-supply, beacon maintenance, radio repeater site maintenance, and icebreaking/escorting, aids to navigation and science work during summer patrols in the Arctic.

The vessel was employed during the rescue of survivors of the merchant vessel Queen of the North, and in 2014 was part of the search for John Franklin’s ships, Erebus and Terror, during the Victoria Strait Expedition.

• Built: 1986, Canadian Shipbuilding, Collingwood, Ontario
• Material: Steel
• Length: 83.0 m
• Breadth: 16.2 m
• Draft: 6.0 m
• Freeboard: 1.7 m
• Gross Tonnage: 3812.1 t
• Net Tonnage: 1533.6 t
• Cruising Range: 6500 nm
• Propulsion: Diesel Electric AC/AC
• Main Engines: (3) x Alco 251F
• Power: 5250kw
• Propellers: (2) x Fixed Pitch
• Bow thrusters: Yes
• Generator: (1) x Caterpillar 3508
• Emergency Generator: (1) x Caterpillar 3306
• Endurance: 120 days
• Cruising Speed: 11.0 knots
• Maximum Speed: 15.5 knots
• Fresh Water: 104.20 m³
• Fuel Capacity: 1096.00 m³
• Fuel Consumption: 6.50 m³/d

• VHF AM: (1) x Collins 251
• VHF FM:
• (1) x Sailor RT-14
• (1) x Sailor RT-5022
• HF:
• (1) x Motorola Micom
• (1) x Rockwell HF80
• SatComms:
• (1) x Westinghouse Series 1000 Msat
• (1) x Nera B Inmarsat
• (1) x Sailor SC4000 Iridium
• Weather Fax: (1) x Furuno Fax 207
• Gyro: (2) x Sperry SR2100
• Radars:
• Sperry Marine Bridgemaster E – X Band
• Sperry Marine Bridgemaster E – S Band
• Electronic Charts:
• (1) x ICAN Aldebaran II
• (1) x Nobletec Admiral Series
• Auto Pilot: (1) x Anschutz Autopilot
• Speed Log: (1) x Sperry Marine SRD-331
• GPS:
• (2) x Leica MX420
• (1) x SAAB R4 (AIS)
• MF DF: (1) x Taiyo C338 HS
• VHF DF: (1) x OAR Cubic 320
• Depth Sounders:
• (2) x Skipper GDS 101
• (1) x Si-Tex Koden CVS 108