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CCGS ''Earl Grey'' is a Medium-endurance Multi-tasked Vessel in the Canadian Coast Guard.〔 〕〔 〕 She serves a variety of roles, including light ice-breaking and buoy tending, as well as being strengthened for navigation in ice to perform tasking along the shores off Prince Edward Island. Eary Grey was built in 1986 in nearby Pictou, Nova Scotia. Like her sister ship, the CCGS ''Samuel Risley'', she carries a large and powerful crane on her long low afterdeck for manipulating buoys.〔〔 ==Career== Since her commissioning in 1986, CCGS ''Earl Grey'' has served a number of roles in CCG's Maritime Region,〔〔 most notably in fall 1998 while assisting in the recovery of wreckage from the crash of Swissair Flight 111.〔 On March 21, 2001, CCGS ''Earl Grey'', , , , , and the commercial oceangoing salvage tug ''Ryan Leet'' all tried to render assistance to the container ship ''Kitano'' which had caught fire off Chebucto Head.〔 〕〔 〕 In the 2009 budget for the Department of Fisheries and Oceans, the Canadian Coast Guard, requested funds to refit the ''Earl Grey'' and some of CCG's other large vessels.〔 〕 The contract to refit ''Earl Grey'' was awarded to Davie Shipbuilding, announced on 12 March 2015. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「CCGS Earl Grey」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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