CCGS Westport explained

CCGS Westport is a Canadian Coast Guard search and rescue vessel homeported in Westport, Nova Scotia.^[1]

She is a Canadian Coast Guard Arun-class motor lifeboat, based on the United Kingdom 15.77m (51.74feet) design.^[1] She entered service in 1997.^[2]

Westport is staffed by a crew of four and allows rescued persons to survive one day before help arrives.

See also

Westport is one of ten Arun-class lifeboats operated by the Canadian Coast Guard:

• - one of two lifeboat operating out of Sambro, Nova Scotia.
• - same class of boat operating out of Clark's Harbour, Nova Scotia.

Notes and References

1. News: CCGS Westport . . https://web.archive.org/web/20110726072306/http://www.ccg-gcc.gc.ca/eng/Fleet/Vessel_pdf?id=961&no_build=1 . 26 July 2011 . dead . dmy-all.
2. News: Coast Guard's newest lifeboat to be christened . 1998-06-03 . . https://web.archive.org/web/20021225200134/http://www.mar.dfo-mpo.gc.ca/communications/maritimes/news98e/m98014.htm . 25 December 2002 . dead . dmy-all.