Government Boats 62

Many thanks to Pat English of FB’s St Lawrence Seaway Shipwatchers Network for these first two photos.  Pat caught a previous LCS here back in 2020.

That’s Picton Terminal’s Amy Lynn D assisting USS Marinette (LCS-25) as it heads out to sea through the Iroquois lock.  All the Freedom-class littoral combat ships built in Marinette WI have required an escort through the Seaway.  In fact, back in 2018 USS Little Rock got stuck downstream of the Seaway because of incompatibility with cold and ice.

Mamilossa, here just downstream of the Beauharnois Canal, is one of five hovercraft operated by the Canadian Coast Guard. 

A Cockerell hovercraft first crossed the English Channel back in 1959.

Pierre Radisson, 323′ x 64′ and in service since 1977,  is one of four CCG medium icebreakers.  

HMCS Margaret Brooke  AOPV-431 is the second Arctic Offshore patrol vessel recently built for the operations in the northern waters of Canada.

Docked near the shipyard in Halifax are AOPVs 433 and 432, Hall and Bernays, the two most recently delivered vessels in this class. 

HMCS Moncton MM-708 visited the sixth boro back in 2016, here.

Many thanks to Pat for sharing the images of USS Marinette transiting the Iroquois lock the other day.  All others, any errors, WVD.

More on LCSs here.