CCGS Captain Goddard M.S.M.
CCGS "Captain Goddard M.S.M." is one of the Canadian Coast Guards nine s. The ship entered service in 2014 and is based at Victoria, British Columbia on Canada's West Coast. The vessel's primary roles will be fishery and environmental patrols, border control, search and rescue. Description. Based on Damen Stan's Patrol 4207 design, the ship measures long overall with a beam of and a draught of . The ship has a and a . The ship is propelled by two controllable pitch propellers driven by two MTU 4000M geared diesel engines rated at . The  patrol vessel is also equipped with two Northern Lights M1066 generators and one Northern Lights M1064 emergency generator. The vessel has a maximum speed of . "Captain Goddard M.S.M." has a fuel capacity of giving the vessel a range of at and an endurance of 14 days. The ship has a complement of nine with five officers and four crew and has five additional berths. The ship is equipped with Sperry Marine Visionmaster FT navigational radar operating on the X and S-bands. Service history. "Captain Goddard M.S.M." was ordered from Irving Shipbuilding in 2009 and the ship's keel was  laid down on 20 March 2013 at Halifax Shipyards in Halifax, Nova Scotia with the yard number 6103. The vessel was launched on 17 May 2014 and named for Captain Nichola Goddard, a soldier who died in combat in 2006. The ship was sponsored by Captain Goddard's mother, Sally Goddard. The ship was completed on 8 October 2014. Following acceptance by the Canadian Coast Guard on 15 October 2014, "Captain Goddard M.S.M." was the last of the Hero-class patrol vessels to enter service. Following acceptance trials, the ship returned to Dartmouth, Nova Scotia before travelling to British Columbia