Name Bardbury
Bradbury Laid down 1915 Decommissioned 1935 Construction started 1915 | Owner Government of Canada Commissioned 1915 Length 48 m Builder Sorel-Tracy | |
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Operator Department of Marine
Department of Transport Marine Service
Canadian Coast Guard | ||
CCGS Bradbury (and previously CGS Bradbury) is a retired ship for the federal Department of Transport's Marine Services (as predecessor of today's Canadian Coast Guard), built in 1915.
Prefabricated in Sorel, Quebec, Bradbury was assembled on the bank of the Selkirk slough in 1915. During her career she served the Federal Government as fishing patrol vessel, a lighthouse tender and an icebreaker until she was forced to retire in 1973.
In 1917, Bradbury travelled through thick ice, taking doctors and medicine to a northern settlement struck by a flu epidemic.
Bradbury was recommissioned after being idle (operating as a commercial vessel) from 1935 to 1952. She was outfitted with new diesel engines and continued her previous duties as well as becoming a dredge tender, and transportation vessel for Government officials visiting Lake Winnipeg.
Bradbury is on static display at the Marine Museum of Manitoba.