Research / survey
CCGS Ernest Lapointe
Operated by Canadian Coast Guard
Photo: Bernard Gagnon · CC BY-SA 3.0 · file
No gross tonnage is recorded for this vessel, so it cannot be ranked by size. Rank is only shown where the underlying measurement exists.
In brief
About CCGS Ernest Lapointe
CCGS Ernest Lapointe was a Canadian Coast Guard light icebreaker that served for 37 years. Completed in 1941, Ernest Lapointe was taken out of service in 1978. The ship was active along the East Coast of Canada and in the Saint Lawrence River. In 1980, the vessel was turned into a museum ship in Quebec.
Vessel particulars
Identification and dimensions
Every value is as recorded in the source. Blanks are values the source does not hold — none is estimated from a sister ship or a class average.
Identification
- IMO number
- 5105829
- IMO check digit
- Valid
- MMSI
- Call sign
- Flag state
- Canada
- Port of registry
- —
- Vessel class
- —
- Status
- in service
Construction
- Type
- Research / survey
- Builder
- Canadian Vickers
- Yard number
- 318532
- Launched
- —
- Year built
- 1940
- Designed to carry
- —
- Owner
- —
- Operator on record
- Canadian Coast Guard
Measurements
- Gross tonnage
- —
- Net tonnage
- —
- Displacement
- —
- Length overall
- 56.2 m
- Beam
- 36.0 m
- Draft
- 16.0 m
- Service speed
- —
- Deadweight
- 415 t
In context
How CCGS Ernest Lapointe compares
Every figure in this section is a count, a rank or a percentile over vessels actually held in this registry — not over the world fleet, which is larger. Nothing here is estimated.
Canada is the country of registry for 633 vessels in this directory. The most common class under that flag is vessels this registry holds no type classification for (404 ships), and the median vessel measures 1,800 GT. Browse every ship flagged Canada.
Narrowing to both dimensions at once, this registry holds 38 research / surveys flying the Canada flag.
CCGS Ernest Lapointe was built in 1940, making it 86 years old. It is one of 45 hulls in this registry delivered that year, a cohort whose median tonnage is 5,141 GT. Across the whole of the 1940s the registry holds 1,039 vessels, median 4,053 GT. The median build year across the entire registry is 1995.
The registry attributes 13 vessels to Canadian Vickers, with a median tonnage of 5,543 GT, delivered between 1917 and 1969. See the rest of that yard’s output.
At 56.2 m overall, CCGS Ernest Lapointe is 14.8 m shorter than the 71.0 m median for research / surveys on record, with a beam of 36.0 m and a draft of 16.0 m.
IMO numbers are issued in broadly chronological blocks. Within 500 either side of 5105829 this registry holds 17 other vessels, whose median build year is 1950 and which range from 1929 to 1961. That places this hull’s registration in the same part of the series, consistent with its recorded build year of 1940.
Its IMO number, 5105829, carries its own check digit. The first six digits are weighted seven down to two and summed — 5×7 + 1×6 + 0×5 + 5×4 + 8×3 + 2×2 = 89 — and the last digit of that total, 9, must equal the seventh digit, 9. It does, so this number is well formed.
Nearest by IMO number
| Ship | IMO | Built |
|---|---|---|
| Charles L. Hutchinson | 5105831 | 1952 |
| RV Ernest Holt | 5105817 | 1949 |
| American Fortitude | 5105843 | 1953 |
| IMO 5105752 | 5105752 | — |
Same fleet
Other ships operated by Canadian Coast Guard
Provenance
Where this page comes from
Vessel recordWikidata, released under CC0, keyed on this ship’s IMO number.
Written summaryQuoted from CCGS Ernest Lapointe on English Wikipedia, reused under CC BY-SA 4.0.
PhotographBy Bernard Gagnon, reused under CC BY-SA 3.0.