CCGS ''Ann Harvey'' is a

Canadian Coast Guard The Canadian Coast Guard (CCG; french: links=no, 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 ...

buoy tender A buoy tender is a type of vessel used to maintain and replace navigational buoys. This term can also apply to an actual person who does this work. The United States Coast Guard uses buoy tenders to accomplish one of its primary missions of main ...

and SAR vessel with light icebreaker duties. She was constructed in 1987 by Halifax Dartmouth Industries, in

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. The vessel was named after

Ann Harvey Ann Harvey (1811–1860) was a fisher and rescuer born near the small fishing community of Isle aux Morts, Newfoundland. Harvey, called the "Grace Darling of Newfoundland", is known for her bravery at the age of seventeen for rescuing, along with ...

, the daughter of a local

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fisherman who helped rescue 185 people during her lifetime. ''Ann Harvey''s home port is

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and is stationed there with other Coast Guard ships.

Design and description

The final ship of the , the vessel carries a boom, skimmer and environmental response equipment.Saunders, p. 95 ''Ann Harvey'' displaces fully loaded, has a and a . The ship is

long overall __NOTOC__ Length overall (LOA, o/a, o.a. or oa) is the maximum length of a vessel's hull measured parallel to the waterline. This length is important while docking the ship. It is the most commonly used way of expressing the size of a ship, and ...

with a

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of and a draught of . ''Ann Harvey'' is propelled by two fixed-pitch propellers and

bow thruster Manoeuvering thruster (bow thruster or stern thruster) is a transversal propulsion device built into, or mounted to, either the bow or stern, of a ship or boat to make it more manoeuvrable. Bow thrusters make docking easier, since they allow th ...

s powered by three

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251-16V diesel-electric engines creating and three Canadian GE generators producing 6 megawatts of AC power driving two Canadian GE motors creating . The ship is also equipped with one

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3306 emergency generator. This gives the ship a maximum speed of . Capable of carrying of

diesel fuel Diesel fuel , also called diesel oil, is any liquid fuel specifically designed for use in a diesel engine, a type of internal combustion engine in which fuel ignition takes place without a spark as a result of compression of the inlet air and t ...

, ''Ann Harvey'' has a maximum range of and at and can stay at sea for up to 120 days. The ship is certified as Arctic Class 2. The vessel is equipped with one

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Bridgemaster navigational radar operating on the I band. ''Ann Harvey'' has a speed crane derrick capable of lifting and two sea cranes capable of lifting . The ship carries a rescue craft and a self-propelled

barge Barge nowadays generally refers to a flat-bottomed inland waterway vessel which does not have its own means of mechanical propulsion. The first modern barges were pulled by tugs, but nowadays most are pushed by pusher boats, or other vessels ...

. ''Ann Harvey'' is equipped with a

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and a

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that originally housed light helicopters of the

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types, but in the 2010s, the

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EPI were acquired by the Canadian Coast Guard to replace the older helicopters. However, the vessel is only allotted one helicopter. The ship has a complement of 26, with 10 officers and 16 crew. ''Ann Harvey'' has 23 additional berths.

Service history

Constructed by Halifax Dartmouth Industries at their yard in

with the yard number 72, ''Ann Harvey'' was launched on 12 December 1985. The vessel entered service with the Canadian Coast Guard on 29 June 1987, registered in

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. The vessel is assigned to the Newfoundland Region, homeported at

. On 1 April 2015, ''Ann Harvey'' ran aground southwest of

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. The ship had been performing work on buoys when it hit bottom. A hole was torn in the hull and as she pulled back off the rocks, water flooded the motor propulsion room. Some personnel were evacuated and was sent to tow ''Ann Harvey'' to Connoire Bay. The ship had lost power when the motor propulsion room and the space aft of it were flooded. The

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CCGS ''W.G. George'' was the first ship to arrive on scene. ''W.G. George'' towed ''Ann Harvey'' to the west. At 1:30 a.m. ''Louis S. St-Laurent'' arrived and took over. ''Ann Harvey'' was towed to a spot west of Burgeo in Connaigre Bay, where

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divers working from , which was dispatched from Canadian Forces Base Halifax, inspected the ship's damage. Once temporary repairs were completed, the ship was towed to St. John's where permanent hull repairs were completed at NewDock St. John's Dockyard LTD. While undergoing repairs in St. John's, it was decided by the Canadian Coast Guard to begin the ship's Vessel Life Extension refit. The electric propulsion motors were removed and sent to

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for overhaul. The crew lounge, engineer offices and helicopter track were cut out of the ship in order to remove the motors. The refit should last until mid-2017. In June 2023, ''Ann Harvey'' was among the Canadian Coast Guard ships that was deployed in the search efforts involved in the ''Titan'' submersible implosion.

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