Search and rescue lifeboats
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Canadian Coast Guard Ship Baie de Plaisance
Overview
These shore-stationed self-righting lifeboats:
- provide key search and rescue services, including:
- conducting searches on water
- responding to marine distress calls
- providing assistance to disabled vessels
- operate up to 100 nautical miles from shore
- replace the Canadian Coast Guard’s existing search and rescue vessels
Project at a glance
- Shipyard
- Chantier Naval Forillon (Gaspé, Quebec) and Hike Metal Products (Wheatley, Ontario)
- Number of vessels to be built
- 20 in total (10 per shipyard)
- Project budget
- $176.4 million (including taxes)
- First vessel delivered
- Late 2017
- Project completion
- 2024
Current status
Delivery and acceptance of vessels 1 through 14:
- Canadian Coast Guard Ship (CCGS) Gabarus Bay, CCGS Chedabucto Bay, CCGS Shediac Bay and CCGS Chignecto Bay delivered in 2022
- CCGS Hare Bay and CCGS La Poile Bay delivered in 2021
- CCGS Cadboro Bay and CCGS Florencia Bay delivered in 2020
- CCGS Sacred Bay and CCGS Conception Bay delivered in 2019
- CCGS McIntyre Bay and CCGS Pachena Bay delivered in 2018
- CCGS Pennant Bay and CCGS Baie de Plaisance delivered in 2017
The year ahead
Construction of vessels 15, 16, 17 and 18 is expected to continue throughout 2023.
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