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US$40 HMCS/CCGS Labrador Crest / Plaque in Lower Sackville, Nova Scotia for sale

US$40
HMCS/CCGS Labrador Crest / Plaque
US$40
HMCS/CCGS Labrador Crest / Plaque
$40

In outstanding condition. Does have 2 holes in it from being mounted. Made in the 50's from aluminum. 8" tall 6" wide CCGS Labrador was a Wind-class icebreaker. 1st commissioned on eight July 1954 as Her Majesty's Canadian Ship (HMCS) Labrador(pennant number AW 50) in the Royal Canadian Navy (RCN), Captain O.C.S. "Long Robbie" Robertson, GM, RCN, In Command. She was transferred to the Department of Transport (DOT) on 22 November 1957, and re-designated Canadian Government Ship (CGS) Labrador. She was among the DOT fleet assigned to the nascent Canadian Coast Guard (CCG) when that organization was formed in 1962, and further re-designatedCanadian Coast Guard Ship (CCGS) Labrador. Her career marked the beginning of the CCG's icebreaker operations which continue to this day. She extensively charted and documented the then-poorly-known Canadian Arctic, and as HMCS Labrador was the 1st ship tocircumnavigate North America in a single voyage.


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