Canada launches fourth Arctic patrol icebreaker HMCS William Hall

The Royal Canadian Navy will soon acquire the fourth patrol ship of the Arctic zone, at the Irving Shipbuilding shipyard in Halifax, a solemn ceremony of launching the Harry DeWolf-class icebreaker HMCS William Hall (433), built in the interests of the Canadian Navy, was held.

The ceremony was held last Sunday, November 27, the patrol icebreaker was loaded onto a semi-submersible barge and towed to the Bedford basin near the Halifax Shipyard, where it will be completed and equipped.

HMCS William Hall (433) is the fourth patrol ship in a series of six Arctic Offshore Patrol Ships, after the lead HMCS Harry DeWolf (430), the first and second production HMCS Margaret Brooke (431) and HMCS Max Bernays (432) , which are already part of the Canadian Navy.

The ship is named after Petty Officer William Hall, the first black Nova Scotian and the third Canadian to receive the Victoria Cross for his participation in the Siege of Lucknow in India on 16 November 1857 during the Indian Rebellion.

AOPS have a displacement of 6440 tons, their length is 103 m, width is 19 m. They are equipped with diesel-electric power plants. Speed ​​up to 17 knots. Range at an average speed of 14 knots - 6800 nautical miles. The ship can break ice one meter thick at a speed of three knots. The autonomy of an individual ship in Arctic waters is four months. Crew - 65 people. The main task of such ships is surveillance and reconnaissance, protection of sovereignty, control of the situation in the exclusive economic zone of the state, search and rescue operations.

The ship is armed with a 38 mm BAE MK25 automatic cannon and two M2 Browning machine guns. There are places for accommodating a CH-148 helicopter and two boats.

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[tralflot1832]

In short, he will chase the fishermen. He is not capable of more.

[JD1979]

Quote: tralflot1832

In short, he will chase the fishermen. He is not capable of more.

Fucked someone - the day was a success. If we assume that those who swim in those waters know the thickness of the ice that happens there, then they are unlikely to make a reserve of 500%, and you will not see figures comparable to Russian icebreakers of a completely different class and with other tasks. For an ordinary patrol ship, a normal boat that will do what it should.

[tralflot1832]

That's it, chasing fishermen, I worked in Labrador. The ship is intended for this, part of it works on the Pacific coast. Marine traffic will help you.

[credo]

Competitors are on the alert and quietly increase the number of ships in the Arctic zone.
Apparently they are preparing for an invasion of our territorial waters in the Far East and the development of the NSR.

It is not for nothing that the Anglo-Saxons started a rumor about their ownership of our Wrangel Island.

[isv000]

Quote: credo

It is not for nothing that the Anglo-Saxons started a rumor about their ownership of our Wrangel Island.

You still have to get to Wrangel, the ice is thick there, and when you get there, you still have to try to carry your legs back ...

[Ponchik78]

This rumor is already about 100 years old))) Of course, no one makes official claims.

[hagen]

Quote: tralflot1832

In short, he will chase the fishermen. He is not capable of more.

They do not have economic tasks and visible prospects for their appearance for heavier icebreakers, so they do not build them.

[Boniface]

His ice class is weak "Arc5"- independent navigation in rarefied first-year Arctic ice with a thickness of up to 0,8 m in winter-spring navigation and up to 1,0 m in summer-autumn. Navigation in the channel behind the icebreaker in first-year Arctic ice up to 0,9 m thick in winter-spring and up to 1,2 m in summer-autumn navigation

But it's still better than not having one...

[Fisherman]

5th ice class according to IACS - about nothing. A meter of ice is just hanging out off the coast of Canada, patrol ... in terms of characteristics compared to ours - just Canadian scows.

[seregatara1969]

Well, they want to be an Arctic country, I want to!

[Fisherman]

so they are an arctic ..... a colony ... de jure - impudent Saxons, de facto - Yankees.

[tralflot1832]

Anything is better than the American icebreaker bought the other day - an ice-class anchor tug. The thickness of the ice is also 1 meter.

[Fisherman]

well, yes .... here at least their own .... the Yankees know how to put their military products sold to others in a block.

[tralflot1832]

By the way, a company from the USA, the owner of an ice-class tug, offered it to Canada, but was politely sent. Now it is an American icebreaker.

[tralflot1832]

But such beauty was over the nuclear icebreaker Vaygach near the port of Sabetta, the ice there is clearly not one meter. This year, the freeze-up occurred two weeks earlier. Warming?

[Fisherman]

Forecasters say that nature has put hell on "greenhouse gases" and these year or two will be the coldest in the Northern Hemisphere and the ice will rise stronger. So no warming is planned, that's why we are building successfully and quickly (well, as best we can) lighters and other ice class.

[TermNachTer]

To call a vessel capable of breaking ice 1 meter thick an icebreaker is, to put it mildly, incorrect.

[Wedmak]

You really are. Ice 1 meter thick is also ice. And dangerous for ordinary ships. So this is an icebreaker, albeit a patrol one.

[TermNachTer]

Look at the statistics - the thickness of the ice off the coast of Canada, you can drop Alaska here, where and for how long can you work, is this a misunderstanding? I am generally silent about weapons.

[Petr_Koldunov]

Quote: TermNachTER

To call a vessel capable of breaking ice 1 meter thick an icebreaker is, to put it mildly, incorrect.

But isn't 100 cm of ice ice? And what? Clay? :)
What would you call a ship that can break ice?

By the way, a meter of ice is quite a lot. A meter of ice can support a tank. And the famous Malygin, being an icebreaker, turned out to be jammed with ice, in which he was tightly stuck (during a rescue expedition). The thickness of the ice in this area of ​​the Barents Sea is just about 100 cm (well, maybe a little more)

[isv000]

Quote: Peter_Koldunov

But isn't 100 cm of ice ice? And what? Clay? :)
What would you call a ship that can break ice?

The tanker, which happened to sail through the Greenland fields, did not have an ice class at all, and diesel engines did not work on the boats, so what ?! Alive and well, I wish you the same ...

[TermNachTer]

The fact that the tanker was able to slip through the crushed ice is good. The bad thing is that the ship cannot count on the weather, the element of luck, etc. It must complete the combat mission to the extent that it is designed for and even a little more.

[tralflot1832]

On the forecastle, the sailor looking forward, after what time did he change?

[isv000]

Quote: tralflot1832

On the forecastle, the sailor looking forward, after what time did he change?

During the day we went, the ice was not solid, so in the usual way. But with non-working diesel engines on both boats, port supervision released two bags of food ...

[TermNachTer]

Well, port supervision - of course, they are deeply purple. And God forbid, would boats be needed? Would you row with oars in the ocean? Were the paddles available?

[isv000]

Quote: TermNachTER

Well, port supervision - of course, they are deeply purple. And God forbid, would boats be needed? Would you row with oars in the ocean? Were the paddles available?

I, in the 90s, tried to feed my family in different ways ...

[Fisherman]

"Let the one who says that this is a girl throw a stone at me!" (O. Bender)

[Bingo]

Okay, you pounced ... It doesn’t sink - it’s already good)))

[rotmistr60]

The ship can break one meter thick ice

Therefore, the patrol. It will walk along the coast, rotate cannons, machine guns, frighten invisible enemies and create the appearance of protecting the Arctic. Canada, unlike the United States, at least has real icebreakers.

[tralflot1832]

Here is the Canadian Arctic zone, below our area near the port of Sabetta, there is a difference.

[Vladimir Postnikov]

Canada launches fourth Arctic patrol icebreaker HMCS William Hall

So what? They have been building various ice-class patrol ships for a long time and constantly. Here in November, somewhere in Europe, an auction was to be held, for which a Danish patrol icebreaker was put up with a starting price of 50 thousand euros. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zLg5ZUkDFq4 I was just licking my lips while watching the video. Even for 100 thousand euros, this one would be ideal for the Polar Route promo project, which meant the creation of the production of underwater drones (an experimental base, at least). If only, if only...
In any case, this is not an icebreaker building race. And they do not encroach on our NSR at all with such a ship / ship (?). routine event.

[Strannik96]

This is not an icebreaker, it is Arc5 (LU5) - independent navigation in rarefied first-year Arctic ice with a thickness of up to 0,8 m in winter-spring navigation and up to 1,0 m in summer-autumn. Navigation in the channel behind the icebreaker in first-year Arctic ice up to 0,9 m thick in winter-spring and up to 1,2 m in summer-autumn navigation. We are now building LNG tankers on the Zvechka Arc7 — independent navigation in close-packed first-year Arctic ice with a thickness of up to 1,4. Tanker, not icebreaker. Why write this about a patrol boat

[ada]

An interesting solution with a low level of placement of the anchor hawse and the niche itself. Deformation of sheathing sheets on vertically oriented sheathing sheets, normal?
Crane installation 20 tons (transportation of containers, underwater equipment, landing craft)
http://nevskii-bastion.ru/aops-canada/
https://topwar.ru/184745-patrulnye-korabli-arkticheskoj-zony-aops-harry-dewolf-kanada.html
The crew is 65 people, an additional 20 (marines, special operations forces, medical personnel, rescuers or members of scientific expeditions) can be on board.
There is space for six 20-foot containers and seven motor boats. There are two cranes with a lifting capacity of 3 and 20 tons.
A hospital can be accommodated on board the ship.
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