CCGS Bradbury

CCGS Bradbury at Marine Museum of Manitoba
History
Canada
Name:
  • Bardbury
  • Bradbury
Owner: Government of Canada
Operator:
Builder: Government Shipyard, Sorel, Quebec
Laid down: 1915
Commissioned: 1915
Decommissioned: 1935
In service: 1915–1935
Out of service: 1935–1952
Struck: 1935
Reinstated: 1952
Recommissioned: 1952
Decommissioned: 1973
Struck: 1973
Homeport: Selkirk, Manitoba
Status: museum since 1973
General characteristics
Type: Fisheries patrol vessel/lighthouse tender/Icebreaker
Length: 158 ft (48 m)
Speed: 15 knots (28 km/h)
Notes: fishing patrol vessel, a lighthouse tender and an icebreaker

CCGS Bradbury (and previously CGS Bradbury) is a retired ship for the federal Department of Transport's Marine Services (as predecessor of today's Canadian Coast Guard), built in 1915.

Prefabricated in Sorel, Quebec, Bradbury was assembled on the bank of the Selkirk slough in 1915. During her career she served the Federal Government as fishing patrol vessel, a lighthouse tender and an icebreaker until she was forced to retire in 1973.

In 1917, Bradbury travelled through thick ice, taking doctors and medicine to a northern settlement struck by a flu epidemic.

Bradbury was recommissioned after being idle (operating as a commercial vessel) from 1935 to 1952. She was outfitted with new diesel engines and continued her previous duties as well as becoming a dredge tender, and transportation vessel for Government officials visiting Lake Winnipeg.

Bradbury is on static display at the Marine Museum of Manitoba.

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