The Canadian Navy has received another Arctic patrol ship. Yesterday, July 16, the portal navaltoday.com he reported that the second ship of the Harry DeWolf type was handed over to the Canadian Navy at the Irving Shipbuilding shipyard in Halifax.
HMCS Margaret Brooke became the second ship of the AOPS (Arctic and Offshore Patrol Ship) project. The ship is named after nurse Margaret Brooke — the first Canadian woman to be awarded the Order of the British Empire. According to the commander of the new ship, Nicole Robichaud, the commissioning of HMCS Margaret Brooke is scheduled for October 2022.
Patrol ship HMCS Margaret Brooke and its commander
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The Canadian government ordered the construction of six Arctic patrol ships in 2015, and in March 2016, the first of them, named Harry DeWolf, was laid down. The new Canadian patrol ships are designed on the basis of Norwegian ships of the Svalbard type, but have a simplified design.
The length of Margaret Brooke is 103 m, the displacement is 6615 tons. The ship can reach speeds of up to 17 knots in open water and 3 knots when moving through ice. The crew will number 65 people, and the ship's armament will be a 25-mm BAE Mk 38 automatic cannon and two M2 Browning machine guns. In addition, each of the ships will be equipped with a platform and a hangar for the Sikorsky CH-148 Cyclone or Bell CH-146 Griffon helicopter.
