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. Entering service in 2013, the vessel is based at

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and tasked with enforcing Canadian maritime law within Canada's borders.

Description

Based on Damen Stan's Patrol 4207 design, the ship measures

long overall 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 is also u ...

with a

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of and a draught of . The ship has a and a . The ship is propelled by two

controllable pitch propeller Controllability is an important property of a control system and plays a crucial role in many regulation problems, such as the stabilization of unstable systems using feedback, tracking problems, obtaining optimal control strategies, or, simply p ...

s driven by two MTU 4000M geared

diesel engine The diesel engine, named after the German engineer Rudolf Diesel, is an internal combustion engine in which Combustion, ignition of diesel fuel is caused by the elevated temperature of the air in the cylinder due to Mechanics, mechanical Compr ...

s rated at . The patrol vessel is also equipped with two Northern Lights M1066 generators and one Northern Lights M1064 emergency generator. The vessel has a maximum speed of . ''Caporal Kaeble V.C.'' has a fuel capacity of giving the vessel a range of at and an endurance of 14 days. The ship has a

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of nine with five officers and four crew and has five additional berths.Miramar Ship Index The ship is equipped with

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Visionmaster FT navigational

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operating on the X and S-bands.

Service history

The ship was ordered from

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in 2009 and the ship's

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was

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with the

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6095. The ship was launched on 22 September 2012, christened by

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, the Minister of Infrastructure, Communities and Intergovernmental Affairs and Minister of the Economic Development Agency of Canada for the Regions of Quebec and completed in November of that year. ''Caporal Kaeble V.C.'' entered service in 2013 and was based at

, Quebec. The vessel is named after Joseph Kaeble, a winner of the

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in the

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Caporal Kaeble Hero-class patrol vessels 2012 ships Ships built in Nova Scotia Patrol vessels of the Canadian Coast Guard