CCGS ''Teleost''CCGS stands for Canadian Coast Guard Ship. The French Canadian equivalent is NGCC - navire de la Garde côtière canadienne. 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 ...

fisheries research vessel A research vessel (RV or R/V) is a ship or boat designed, modified, or equipped to carry out research at sea. Research vessels carry out a number of roles. Some of these roles can be combined into a single vessel but others require a dedicated ...

. The ship was originally constructed in Norway in 1988 as a commercial

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named ''Atlantic Champion''. In 1993, the Canadian government purchased the vessel and after a competition among schoolchildren, the vessel was named ''Teleost'' by the winner. The vessel was converted to an offshore fisheries research vessel in 1994–1995 and entered service in 1996 with the Canadian Coast Guard. The ship is currently in active service.

Design and description

''Teleost'' is of a large commercial stern

design. The vessel 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, an ...

with a

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of and a draught of . The vessel is powered by one Caterpillar 3612 geared diesel engine driving one controllable-pitch

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, creating . The ship is also equipped with two emergency generators; one Caterpillar 3303 and one Caterpillar 3512. This gives the vessel a maximum speed of . ''Teleost'' carries of

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, with a range of at and can stay at sea for up to 42 days. The vessel has a

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of 22 with 9 officers and 13 crew and has 15 spare berths.

Service history

The fishing vessel was initially constructed by Tangen Verft at

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, Norway with the yard number 93. The ship was launched on 12 March 1988 as ''Atlantic Champion''. The vessel's construction was taken over by Langsten Slip-Batbyggeri AS at their yard in

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, Norway and ''Atlantic Champion'' was completed on 14 July 1988. In 1993, the ship was purchased by Canada for use as a fisheries research vessel. The ship underwent conversion to a fisheries research vessel in 1994. The new name of the ship was chosen in a contest by schoolchildren. The winning selection was the

teleost Teleostei (; Greek ''teleios'' "complete" + ''osteon'' "bone"), members of which are known as teleosts ), is, by far, the largest infraclass in the class Actinopterygii, the ray-finned fishes, containing 96% of all extant species of fish. Tel ...

, a type of

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. ''Teleost'' entered service with the Canadian Coast Guard in 1996. is registered in

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, but homeported at St. John's,

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. The vessel carries out surveys of the Newfoundland and Labrador region. ''Teleost'' is equipped with several types of laboratories. The vessel can also perform

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duties. In September 2009 the

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announced invitations for contracts to replace several of the Coast Guard's research vessels, including ''Teleost''. ''Teleost'' underwent a $1.6 million refit at St. John's Dockyard in St. John's. The refit was extended past its deadline to 30 March 2018 after additional steel work was required on the ship. ''Teleost'' was scheduled to replace on the Department of Fisheries and Oceans's fisheries survey on the

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since the latter was also undergoing a refit, but due to the refit's extension, became unavailable.

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* * {{DEFAULTSORT:Teleost, CCGS Ships of the Canadian Coast Guard Research vessels of Canada 1988 ships Ships built in Norway