CCGS Jean Goodwill
CCGS "Jean Goodwill is an icebreaking anchor handling tug supply vessel (AHTS) converted to a medium class icebreaker for the Canadian Coast Guard. She was originally built as Balder Viking" for Trans Viking Icebreaking & Offshore AS in 2000. The vessel was acquired by the Canadian Coast Guard in 2018 and was initially expected to enter service in late 2019. However, due to delays the conversion of the vessel is now expected to be completed in late 2020. CCGS "Jean Goodwill" has two sister vessels, and , both of which are converted offshore vessels. Design. CCGS "Jean Goodwill" is  long overall and between perpendiculars. Her hull has a beam of and moulded depth of . At design draught, she draws of water, but can be loaded to a maximum draught of which corresponds to a displacement of 6,872tons. Originally built to DNV ice class "ICE-10 Icebreaker", her hull structures and propulsion system will be upgraded to Polar Class 4 level and the vessel will be rated as Arctic Class 3 in Canadian service. Originally she was served by a crew of 23, but this will be reduced to 19 (9 officers and 10 crew) when the vessel is commissioned by  the Canadian Coast Guard. There are also 9 additional berths. CCGS "Jean Goodwill" has four medium-speed diesel engines geared to two controllable pitch propellers in nozzles. She has two eight-cylinder MaK 8M32 and two six-cylinder MaK 6M32 diesel engines rated at and each. With a total propulsion power of , she can achieve a maximum speed of in open water and break ice at a continuous speed of . In addition, she has two bow thrusters (one fixed, one retractable and azimuthing) and one transverse stern thruster for maneuvering and dynamic positioning. Career. Section::::"Balder Viking" (2000–2018). She has been  employed supplying offshore arctic petroleum drilling expedition. In February 2010 "Balder Viking", "Vidar Viking" and were chartered by Edinburgh-based oil company Cairn Energy UK PLC for four months, starting in June 2010, for drilling operations in Baffin Bay. CCGS "Jean Goodwill". In 2016, Davie Shipbuilding began offering "Balder Viking" and her sister ships as a replacement to the ageing Canadian Coast Guard icebreakers under the moniker "Project Resolute". In addition to the three Swedish icebreaking offshore vessels, the offer also included a fourth slightly bigger and more powerful vessel: the US-flagged . On 10 August 2018, Viking Supply Ships  announced the sale of its three vessels to Her Majesty the Queen in Right of Canada for $274 million. Once retrofitted at Davie Shipbuilding, the vessels are expected to remain in service in the Canadian Coast Guard for 15 to 25 years. "Balder Viking" was renamed CCGS "Jean Goodwill" after Jean Cuthand Goodwill (1928–1997), a Canadian Cree nurse who, in 1954, became Saskatchewan's first Aboriginal woman to finish a nursing program. The vessel joined the Canadian Coast Guard fleet in November 2020.