Talk:CCGS Labrador

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First ship to circumnavigate North America ?
I thought the St Roch was the first ship to circumnavigate North America? -- Geo Swan 15:46, 30 August 2005 (UTC)


 * The St. Roch only went from Vancouver to Halifax. It didn't circumnavigate North America, it just went around the southern half. Its article should be changed. --Madison Gray 16:26, 30 August 2005 (UTC)


 * Perhaps it should be changed, if you don't find it clear. She travelled, both ways, across the Northwest Passage, during World War II.  She then transitted the Panama Canal, in 1950.  That means she circumnavigated the continent.


 * I suppose that it could be clarified that Labrador was the first ship to circumnavigate North America in a single voyage. -The Tom 18:16, 30 August 2005 (UTC)

What about the Americas?
Anyone know what was the first ship (if any) to circumnavigate the Americas (north and south)? Should make an interesting footnote to this article. &mdash; Eoghanacht  talk 20:05, 2005 August 30 (UTC)

Request for a map
What are the hardships of such circum travel ? Why dit it only occur in '54 ? Can a map explain that ? Thanks. --193.56.241.75 09:20, 29 May 2006 (UTC)


 * The changes in difficulty in circumnavigation are shocking. The St Roch's first transit of the Northwest Passage, during World War 2, was dangerous.  And it took 28 months.  A few years ago the RCMP allowed one of its vessels to repeat the passage, and it encountered no ice at all.  Geo Swan (talk) 01:18, 21 June 2009 (UTC)

RCN Ensign opposed to Canadian Forces Maritime Command Ensign
Hu, do your research, the Labrador flew the RCN Ensign, it was long out of naval service when the CF MARCOM Ensign came in use. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 24.18.154.182 (talk) 06:35, 2 March 2011 (UTC)


 * Well done mate, thank you. Ready Aye ReadyTjlynnjr (talk) 10:05, 3 March 2011 (UTC)

Labrador's ensigns.
The CCGS Labrador was never operated by the Canadian Forces MARCOM, which was created on 01 February 1968, nor did Labrador ever wear the C.F. MARCOM ensign. By that time (1968), Labrador was on CCG service. Labrador's history was: RCN 1954 to 1957, Department of Transport (DOT) 1958 to 1962, and CCG 1962 to 1987. The RCN was first established in 1910, the DOT (now Transport Canada) was established in 1936 and the CCG was established in 1962. Tjlynnjr (talk) 20:19, 22 May 2012 (UTC).Ready Aye ReadyTjlynnjr (talk) 19:27, 1 May 2014 (UTC).

/* Early history */ tried to smooth
Lab wasn't "largest", she's Wind sized. Was advanced, tho. Engines weren't clear. Each engine has a generator, each shaft has one motor. Sammy D III (talk) 01:42, 3 January 2013 (UTC)

Bios re Commodore O.C.S. Robertson and Captain T.C. Pullen
1. Commodore O.C.S. Robertson, GM, RCN “The Very Image of a Man of the Arctic”: Commodore O.C.S. Robertson By Lieutenant (N) Jason M. Delaney and Michael Whitby Canadian Naval Review VOLUME 4, NUMBER 4 (WINTER 2009) pp 25 to 29. Retrieved: 3 August 2014.

2. Captain T.C. Pullen, RCN: Polar Navigator By: Grahm Rowley. The Northern Mariner/Le Marin du nord, II, No. 2 (April 1992), pp 29-49. Retrieved: 3 August 2014.

3. Captain T.C. Pullen, RCN: An Arctic Bibliography. W.A.B. Douglas (comp.) The Northern Mariner/Le Marin du nord, II, No. 2 (April 1992), pp 51-54. Very good reading. Ready Aye Ready Tjlynnjr (talk) 11:58, 3 August 2014 (UTC).

4. ''HMCS Labrador. An Operational History.'' Naval Historical Section, Royal Canadian Naval Headquarters. Edited and Introduced by P. Whitney Lackenbauer and Adam Lajeunesse with Lieutenant )N) Jason Delaney. Mulroney Institute of Government, St Francis Xavier University. Arctic Operational Histories, no. 1. 2017.  Ready Aye Ready Tjlynnjr (talk) 10:05, 15 December 2021 (UTC)

Sources of images for Labrador
Photos of LABRADOR here:

1. History of the Atlantic Cable & Undersea Communications from the first submarine cable of 1850 to the worldwide fiber optic network. George Smith - CS Alert (4). 

2.Modified WINDClass arctic patrol vessel. 

3. http://www.ccg-gcc.gc.ca/eng/CCG/USQUE_Icebreaker

4. Arctic Expedition. Breaking the Ice: Icebreakers in the North. HMCS Labrador. 

5. Ready Aye Ready. HMCS LABRADOR. 

6. flickr. Many Canadian icebreaker photos.

7. Friends of Hydrography. A Canadian Volunteer Group Supported By and in Collaboration With the Canadian Hydrographic Association. HMCS LABRADOR.

8. ROYAL CANADIAN NAVY. HMCS LABRADOR 50. Then CGS LABRADOR. Then CCGS LABRADOR. 

All retrieved on: 3 August 2014. Ready Aye Ready Tjlynnjr (talk) 12:23, 3 August 2014 (UTC).

CCGS Labrador made a trip to Thule, Greenland, Nov 25 - Dec 26, 1966, along with CCGS N.B. McLean, USCG West Wind and the ice-breaking Cable-repair Ship John Cabot.
I was a Senior Cable-jointer working with Canadian Overseas Telecommunications Corporation. I was on-board the cable-ship John Cabot when the ship was advised of a broken cable while alongside the Holland-American wharf in New York, November, 1966. The broken cable was the BMEWS-W Cable (Ballistic Missile Early Warning System)connecting Thule with Colorado Springs, USA. The ship returned to St. John's, loaded spare cable and stores, then proceeded North to Thule, with her three ship escort, CCGS Labrador, CCGS N.B.McLean and the USCG West Wind. Captain George Burdock was in command, Walter Foster was the Chief Testing. When the ships arrived on site in early December, the iceberg which had grounded on the cable had opened a lake of water, so the JOHN CABOT got in and repaired the broken cable, while making history. But in doing so, the BMEWS-E cable got broken. The four ships stayed in the area for close to two weeks but never got another chance. Eventually it became so dangerous for all, a meeting was held and shortly afterwards all vessels departed the area and sailed south. CCGS John Cabot arrived back in St. John's on Boxing Day, 1966. My name is J.Allan Sparks and in June the following year, I went back to Thule on an American cable ship and successfully repaired the broken Cable — Preceding unsigned comment added by 142.166.152.196 (talk) 03:39, 27 January 2015 (UTC)

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