CCGS ''Jean Goodwill'' is an icebreaking
anchor handling tug supply vessel (AHTS) converted to a medium class
icebreaker
An icebreaker is a special-purpose ship or boat designed to move and navigate through ice-covered waters, and provide safe waterways for other boats and ships. Although the term usually refers to ice-breaking ships, it may also refer to sma ...
for the
Canadian Coast Guard
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. She was originally built as ''Balder Viking'' for
Trans Viking Icebreaking & Offshore AS in 2000. The vessel was sold to Canada in 2018 and was initially expected to enter service in late 2019 following a refit.
However, due to delays the conversion of the vessel was not completed until November 2020.
CCGS ''Jean Goodwill'' has two sister vessels, and , both of which are converted offshore vessels.
Design
CCGS ''Jean Goodwill'' is
long overall and
between perpendiculars. Her hull has a
beam of and
moulded depth
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of . At
design draught, she draws of water, but can be loaded to a maximum draught of which corresponds to a displacement of 6,872tons.
Originally built to
DNV ice class "ICE-10 Icebreaker", her hull structures and propulsion system will be upgraded to
Polar Class 4 level
and the vessel will be rated as Arctic Class 3 in Canadian service. Originally she was served by a crew of 23, but this will be reduced to 19 (9 officers and 10 crew) when the vessel is commissioned by the Canadian Coast Guard. There are also 9 additional berths.
CCGS ''Jean Goodwill'' has four medium-speed
diesel engine
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s geared to two
controllable pitch propeller
In marine propulsion, a variable-pitch propeller is a type of propeller with blades that can be rotated around their long axis to change the blade pitch. Reversible propellers—those where the pitch can be set to negative values—can also ...
s in
nozzles. She has two
eight-cylinder MaK 8M32 and two
six-cylinder MaK 6M32 diesel engines rated at and each. With a total propulsion power of , she can achieve a maximum speed of in open water and break ice at a continuous speed of . In addition, she has two
bow thruster
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s (one fixed, one retractable and azimuthing) and one transverse stern thruster for maneuvering and
dynamic positioning
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.
Career
''Balder Viking'' (2000–2018)
She has been employed supplying offshore arctic petroleum drilling expedition.
In February 2010 ''Balder Viking'', ''Vidar Viking'' and were
chartered by
Edinburgh
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-based oil company
Cairn Energy UK PLC
A cairn is a man-made pile (or stack) of stones raised for a purpose, usually as a marker or as a burial mound. The word ''cairn'' comes from the gd, càrn (plural ).
Cairns have been and are used for a broad variety of purposes. In prehi ...
for four months, starting in June 2010, for drilling operations in
Baffin Bay
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.
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CCGS ''Jean Goodwill'' (2020–present)
In 2016,
Chantier Davie Canada began offering ''Balder Viking'' and her sister ships as a replacement to the ageing Canadian Coast Guard icebreakers under the moniker ''Project Resolute''. In addition to the three Swedish icebreaking offshore vessels, the offer also included a fourth slightly bigger and more powerful vessel, the US-flagged . In August 2018, Chantier Davie Canada was awarded a Can$610 million dollar contract for the acquisition and refitting of the three vessels.
On 10 August 2018, Viking Supply Ships announced the sale of its three vessels to Her Majesty the Queen in Right of Canada for a profit of $274 million.
Once retrofitted at Davie Shipbuilding, the vessels are expected to remain in service in the Canadian Coast Guard for 15 to 25 years.
[
''Balder Viking'' was renamed CCGS ''Jean Goodwill'' after ]Jean Cuthand Goodwill
Jean Cuthand Goodwill OC (1928 – August 25, 1997) was a Canadian Cree nurse who, in 1954, became Saskatchewan's first Aboriginal woman to finish a nursing program.
Biography
Goodwill grew up on the Little Pine First Nation in Saskatchewan; she ...
(1928–1997), a Canadian Cree nurse who, in 1954, became Saskatchewan
Saskatchewan ( ; ) is a province in western Canada, bordered on the west by Alberta, on the north by the Northwest Territories, on the east by Manitoba, to the northeast by Nunavut, and on the south by the U.S. states of Montana and North ...
's first Aboriginal woman to finish a nursing program.
References
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Icebreakers of Sweden
Icebreakers of the Canadian Coast Guard
2000 ships