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First Contract for Canada’s new Arctic Offshore Patrol Ships

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Canada has taken its first concrete step toward providing six to eight ships to patrol its arctic waters.

“The Public Works department says Irving will use the $9.3 million to analyze a preliminary Arctic vessel design already put together by another company and determine how much work will be required before actual, detailed design work can commence.

We have talked about this program before, here and here. Tom C gave us this pdf which was dated February 2012

http://higherlogicdownload.s3.amazonaws.com/SNAME/ce7dbd62-cb5f-4739-abc2-44ac55b35df0/UploadedImages/AOPS%20SNAME%20PNW%20Section%20Presentation%20Rev2.pdf

Specs from the pdf:

  • LOA 98.0 m
  • LWL 91.0 m
  • LBP 86.4 m
  • BOA 19.0 m
  • BWL 18.4 m
  • T 5.75 m
  • Displacement 5874 tonnes
  • Installed Power
    (Gensets) 4 x 3300 kW
    (Propulsion Motors) 2 x 4500 kW
  • Speed 17

These specifications are very close to those of the Norwegian Coast Guard ship  Svalbard.

(Thanks to our Canadian friend Ken White for the link)

Navy Merges Coastal and Riverine Forces

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Some of the Navy units that the Coast Guard most commonly works with are being reorganized.

The Ports, Waterways, and Coastal Security (PWCS) mission the Coast Guard does in the US, when required outside the US, is a Navy responsibility, although they frequently seek Coast Guard assistance.

The Navy has decided to reorganize the way they do this mission, by combining at least to some extent, the organizations that do river and coastal missions.

They are also getting some new platforms to allow them to operate further from shore, including the new 85 foot patrol boat we talked about earlier.

There isn’t an exact correspondence between the way the Coast Guard defines the PWCS mission and the mission set for this new organization, but there are a lot of similarities and we can expect that there will be opportunities to train and exercise together.