CCGS ''John P. Tully''CCGS stands for Canadian Coast Guard Ship is an offshore oceanographic science vessel in the Canadian Coast Guard operating out of Pacific Region at CGS Base Patricia Bay in Sidney, British Columbia. Prior to 1995, the ship was assigned to Fisheries and Oceans Canada. The vessel entered service in June 1985 with the Department of Fisheries and Oceans on the West Coast of Canada. In 1995, the fleets of Fisheries and Oceans and the Canadian Coast Guard were merged under Canadian Coast Guard command and ''John P. Tully'' became a Coast Guard vessel.

Design and description

''John P. Tully'' is long overall and

long between perpendiculars Length between perpendiculars (often abbreviated as p/p, p.p., pp, LPP, LBP or Length BPP) is the length of a ship along the summer load line from the forward surface of the stem, or main bow perpendicular member, to the after surface of the ster ...

with a

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of and a draught of . The ship has a fully loaded displacement of with a and a deadweight tonnage (DWT) of 638. The ship has two

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628 geared diesel engines powering three

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C18 generators driving one controllable-pitch

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and stern and bow thrusters creating . This gives the vessel a maximum speed of . The ship can carry of diesel fuel and has a range of at . The research vessel is equipped with

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Bridgemaster navigational radar operating on the X and S-bands. ''John P. Tully'' has a flight deck situated between the bow and the forward

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. The ship can operate one light helicopter of the

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or Bell 206L types from the flight deck but is not equipped with a hangar for storage. The ship has a complement of 21, comprising 7 officers and 14 crew. There are also 20 spare berths aboard the vessel.

Operational history

''John P. Tully'' was constructed by Bel-Air Shipyard in Vancouver, British Columbia with the yard number 302 and was launched in December 1984. The ship was completed and entered service with the Department of Fisheries and Oceans in June 1985. In 1995 the fleets of Fisheries and Oceans and the Canadian Coast Guard were merged under Canadian Coast Guard command and ''John P. Tully'' was given the prefix CCGS. The research vessel was named for the oceanographer John P. Tully and is based at the Institute of Ocean Sciences at Sidney, British Columbia. ''John P. Tully'' has been employed on joint research voyages with a variety of United States agencies, including the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. On 25 October 2001, the research vessel responded to a distress call from the fishing vessel ''Kella-Lee'' north of Cape Scott, Vancouver Island. Due to a violent storm with winds reaching , the Coast Guard vessel could not reach the site until the next morning. ''John P. Tully'' recovered two survivors from the four crew. In October 2016, after the tugboat ''Nathan E. Stewart'' sank near Bella Bella, British Columbia and began to leak oil, ''John P. Tully'' and were deployed to help contain the spill.

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