Canadian Coast Guard Fleet - Quebec Region

Sipu Muin

The ACV Sipu Muin is a powerful, heavy hovercraft.  She plays an essential role in flood control activities in Eastern Canada by breaking up ice covered rivers and shores along the St. Lawrence River, where conventional icebreakers are unable to operate..

Source: CCG

The craft is used as a buoytender in the Québec Region, meaning that she can be called upon to lay, service and recover buoys.  the Sipu Muin is equiped with a crane capable of lifting up to 4 500 kg.  Her verswatility and 23,000 kg payload enable her to transport any combination of crago and passengers through difficult waters.  Vehicles can be loaded directly on deck by a bow ramp, making the Sipu Muin particularly useful in pollution clean-up operations, since the craft is also completely amphibious.  In addition, she is regularly assigned to search and rescue operations and navigational aids construction and maintenance operations.

Although the Sipu Muin is used primarily between Montreal and Trois Rivières, she can be deployed rapidly to any area under Coast Guard jurisdiction, like other Coast Guard units.  Her home port is Trois Rivières.

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