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THE NEWEST high endurance search and rescue
vessel used by Canadian Coast Guard was named
at a ceremony in North Vancouver Saturday.

Mme. Mary Pepin, wife of
federal Transport Minister
Jean-Luc Pepin, named the
885-tonne vessel George E.
Derby, after a minister and
medical. doctor who ran a
medical mission in Bella
Bella for 45 years. ;

The naming ceremony was
carried out in Vancouver
Shipyards in North Van-
couver where the vessel has
been undergoing extensive
modifications. °

Built in 1972 by Bel-Air
Shipyards, of North Van-
couver, the 56 metre former
oil rig anchor was bought by
Transport Canada in January
this year for $4 million.

She sailed from Halifax
after working on east coast

drilling operations and
landed at the Victoria Coast
Guard base last spring where
the job of converting her for
search and réscue began.

Total. costs of the vessel,
including the conversion
work, amount to $6 million
— about half the cost of
building a new vessel.

She is the Coast Guard’s
largest dedicated search and
rescue vessel on the west
coast and will have a crew of
16.

The George E. Darby will
patrol exposed coastal
waters, particularly Queen
Charlotte Sound, Hecate
Strait, Dixon Entrance and
the western coasts of the

Queen Charlotte Islands and

: OF tured at the naming ceremony are North Van City Mayor Jack
Loucks,:Mme. Mary Pepin, Federal Transport Minister Jean-Luc Pepin and North Van Capilano MLA Angus Ree.

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Vancouver Island. Her
northern operational base
will be Prince Rupert with
the crew changes and major
refits carried out in Victoria

cargo deck. She will be able
to work with the large
Labrador search and rescue
helicopters and will even-
tually be able to refuel the

or Vancouver. big twin-rotor craft. With
She will be capable of her stern ballast § tanks
supporting helicopter flooded, the George E.

operations from her working
deck and have an endurance
of 30 days, with a speed
capacity of 14 knots. At a
cruising speed of 11 knots,
she will be able to remain on
patrol for as long as 56 days.
The cutter is scheduled for
a drydocking in 1982 for a
below water refit, which will
include the installation of a
bow thruster. At that time a
helicopter refueling system
will be added to the ship.
One of the most unusual
and potentially valuable
features of the George E.
Darby is a clear 11mx23m

Darby will be able to winch
small, damaged vessels onto
the dry cargo deck for
repairs and then refloat
them.

Formerly called the Janie
B, the search and rescue
vessel was renamed after Dr.
George E. Darby, who died
in 1962.

His work as a medical
missionary made him one of
the best loved and most
respected figures on the
Bella Bella coast and in 1944
the chief of the Bella Bellas
named him Wo-Ya-Lo,
meaning The Highest.

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