CCGS Revisor

CCGS Revisor with CCG livery painted out, while working with researchers from the Jet Propulsion Lab
History
Canada
Name: Revisor
Operator: Canadian Coast Guard (on loan to Jet Propulsion Lab)
Builder: Canoe Cove Manufacturing Limited, Sidney, BC
Commissioned: 1972
In service: 1972
Homeport: Patricia Bay, BC
Status: in active service
General characteristics
Type: Inshore fisheries research and survey vessel
Displacement: 10.5 gross tons
Length: 12.2 m (40 ft 0 in)
Beam: 3.8 m (12 ft 6 in)
Draft: 0.8 m (2 ft 7 in)
Propulsion: Diesel - 2 × Volvo Penta
Speed: 17 knots (31 km/h)
Range: 200 nmi (370 km)
Endurance: 5 days
Complement: 2
Aviation facilities: None

The Canadian Coast Guard Ship Revisor is a Canadian Coast Guard inshore fisheries research and survey vessel.

The boat is a Cabin cruiser (maximum of 2 passengers) for use for offshore hydrographic survey work.

The vessel has been made available in the past for use by United States Government researchers with NASA's Jet Propulsion Lab in Pasadena, California, as well as university research work by the Seafloor Mapping Lab at California State University in Monterey Bay, California.[1]

CGS Base Patricia Bay

Most ships at this base are research vessels:

References

  1. ^ official Revisor web-page, Canadian Coast Guard
  2. ^ Meet the Oceanographers: The birth of a cold water reef, Jet Propulsion Laboratory


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