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CCG IRB Station Mahone Bay, Chester, NS. CCG IRB Station Notre Dame Bay, Lewisporte, NL. CCG IRB Station Pictou, Pictou, NS. CCG IRB Station Saint John River, Grand Bay-Westfield, NB. CCG IRB Station Shediac, Shediac, NB. Joint Rescue Coordination Centre Halifax, CFB Halifax. Canadian Coast Guard College, Westmount, NS.
The Canadian Coast Guard (CCG; French: Garde côtière canadienne, GCC) is the coast guard of Canada.Formed in 1962, the coast guard is tasked with marine search and rescue (SAR), communication, navigation, and transportation issues in Canadian waters, such as navigation aids and icebreaking, marine pollution response, and support for other Canadian government initiatives.
The Canadian Coast Guard (CCG) maintains a fleet of sea and lake going vessels, hovercraft, and aircraft. The variety of equipment allows the CCG to perform its mandated functions of navaids and sea-going transportation management, search and rescue, marine pollution response and the support of other Canadian federal authorities.
These are the Marine Communications and Traffic Services centres operated by the Canadian Coast Guard. They provide distress and safety communications, vessel traffic services and marine weather information. "The Canadian Coast Guard announced in May of 2012 that they would be reducing the number of MCTS Centres across Canada from 22 to the ...
The Canadian Coast Guard Auxiliary ( CCGA; French: Garde côtière auxiliaire canadienne, GCAC) is a Canada-wide volunteer marine association dedicated to marine search and rescue (SAR) and the promotion of boating safety, through association with the Canadian Coast Guard under the auspices of Canada's National Search and Rescue Program .
Aviation facilities. Helicopter deck only. Canadian Coast Guard Ship Griffon is a Canadian Coast Guard (CCG) high endurance multi-tasked vessel and light icebreaker stationed in Prescott, Ontario, Canada. [1] Completed in 1970, Griffon provides icebreaking services along eastern Lake Ontario and upriver along the Saint Lawrence River to Montreal .
CCGS Louis S. St-Laurent (French: NGCC Louis S. St-Laurent) is a Canadian Coast Guard (CCG) heavy icebreaker. Louis S. St-Laurent ' s home port is St. John's, Newfoundland and Labrador. [6] She is the largest icebreaker and flagship of the CCG. [7] The ship is named after Louis St. Laurent, who served as the 12th prime minister of Canada from ...
The Canadian Coast Guard (CCG) maintains a fleet of 14.6 m (47 ft 11 in) Cape-class motor lifeboats [2] based on a motor lifeboat design used by the United States Coast Guard. In September 2009 the CCG announced plans to add five new lifeboats, bringing the total number of Cape-class lifeboats to 36.