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CCGS ''John A. Macdonald'' was a Canadian Coast Guard heavy icebreaker. She was named after The Right Honourable, Sir John Alexander Macdonald, GCB, KCMG, PC, PC (Canada), the First Prime Minister of Canada. She was commissioned into the Canadian Department of Transport's Marine Service in 1960 using the prefix "Canadian Government Ship" (CGS). She was transferred in 1962 into the newly created Canadian Coast Guard (CCG) and served with distinction until being decommissioned in 1991, and replaced by the then-chartered (but later purchased) . ==Ship's history== ''John A. Macdonald'' was known to Canadian Coast Guard personnel as ''"The Queen of the Fleet"'', and is also considered by many veteran Canadian and U.S. coastguardsmen to be the finest Canadian icebreaker ever built. ''John A Macdonald'' was awarded the U.S. Coast Guard Unit Commendation ''"for extremely meritorious service in the support of United States Coast Guard operations during the period of 23 September 1967 to 08 October 1967"'', during the Arctic West Summer (AWS) 1967 cruise by Admiral (ADM) Willard J. Smith, Commandant, United States Coast Guard.〔 (U.S. Coast Guard COMDTINST M1650.25D, May 2008 ).〕〔U.S. Department of Homeland Security. United States Coast Guard Historian's Office. http://www.uscg.mil/history/default.asp〕 In 1969 ''John A. Macdonald'', Captain Paul A. Fournier CCG, Master, assisted the then-new CCGS ''Louis S. St-Laurent'', Captain Wilfred Dufour CCG, Master, in rescuing the , Captain Roger A. Steward, Master; during her transit of the Northwest Passage. ''John A. Mcdonald'' made a double transit from the east to west and returned west to east.〔MacFarlane, John M. (1990 - Revised 1995, 2011 & 2012) Full Transits of the Canadian Northwest Passage. Nauticapedia.ca 2012. http://nauticapedia.ca/Articles/NWP_Fulltransits.php〕〔William D. Smith. ''Northwest Passage, The Historic Voyage of the SS Manhattan''. Markham, ON.Fitzhenry & Whiteside Ltd, Publishers. 1970. SBN: 07-058460-5〕〔MacFarlane, John M. (1990 - Revised 1995, 2011 & 2012) Full Transits of the Canadian Northwest Passage. Nauticapedia.ca 2012. http://nauticapedia.ca/Articles/NWP_Fulltransits.php〕 During the rescue, ''John A. Macdonald'' broke her starboard propeller in heavy ice; the propeller is on display by the Dartmouth Ferry Terminal, Dartmouth, Nova Scotia. The Canadian government representative in ''SS Manhattan'' was Captain T.C. Pullen RCN (Ret'd).〔William D. Smith. ''Northwest Passage, The Historic Voyage of the SS Manhattan''. Markham, ON.Fitzhenry & Whiteside Ltd, Publishers. 1970. SBN: 07-058460-5〕 ''John A. Macdonald'' was assisted by the U.S. icebreakers ''USCGC Northwind (WAGB-282)'' and the ''USCGC Staten Island (WAGB-278).'' In 1975 ''John A. MacDonald'', Captain G. Yarn In Command, made a partial transit of the Northwest Passage, westward, through Lancaster Sound, Peel Sound and Victoria Strait.〔MacFarlane, John M. (2012) A List of the Early Partial Transits of the Canadian Northwest Passage 1921 to 2004. Nauticapedia.ca 2012. http://nauticapedia.ca/Articles/NWP_Partialtransits.php〕 During 1978 ''John A. MacDonald'', Captain G. Yarn In Command made an east to west partial transit of the Northwest Passage, traveling on charter to Dome Petroleum, through Lancaster Sound, Prince of Wales Strait and the Beaufort Sea.〔MacFarlane, John M. (2012) A List of the Early Partial Transits of the Canadian Northwest Passage 1921 to 2004. Nauticapedia.ca 2012. http://nauticapedia.ca/Articles/NWP_Partialtransits.php〕 In 1979 ''John A. MacDonald'' Captain S. Goodyear In Command, made another partial transit of the Northwest Passage, west to east, returning eastward from a charter operation.〔MacFarlane, John M. (2012) A List of the Early Partial Transits of the Canadian Northwest Passage 1921 to 2004. Nauticapedia.ca 2012. http://nauticapedia.ca/Articles/NWP_Partialtransits.php〕 During 1985 ''John A. MacDonald'' with Captain G. Barry In Command made a further partial transit of the Northwest Passage traveling westward, through Peel Sound, Victoria Strait, Amundsen Gulf and back.〔MacFarlane, John M. (2012) A List of the Early Partial Transits of the Canadian Northwest Passage 1921 to 2004. Nauticapedia.ca 2012. http://nauticapedia.ca/Articles/NWP_Partialtransits.php〕 1988 ''John A. MacDonald'' Captain G. Barry In Command made another partial transit of the Northwest Passage traveling westward, through Lancaster Sound, Peel Sound and Demarcation Point then back.〔MacFarlane, John M. (2012) A List of the Early Partial Transits of the Canadian Northwest Passage 1921 to 2004. Nauticapedia.ca 2012. http://nauticapedia.ca/Articles/NWP_Partialtransits.php〕 In 1987 she underwent an eight month, $8-million (CAD) refit, only to be decommissioned four years later. She was transferred from the CCG to Crown Assets and was renamed ''1201''. She was sold for scrapping and towed from Halifax Harbour, Nova Scotia to India in November 1993 and was broken up in the early months of 1994. 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 John A. Macdonald」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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