Design of new Canadian Coast Guard vessels

Four new scientific research vessels will be designed by Canadian shipbuilding firms including three new offshore fisheries science vessels and one new offshore oceanographic science vessel.

The three new fisheries science vessels will be designed by Robert Allan Ltd, Alion Science and Technology (Canada) Corporation and Alion Science and Technology Corporation in joint venture. Two of these vessels are intended as replacements for "CCGS Teleost", "CCGS Alfred Needler" and "CCGS W.E. Ricker" as well as "CCGS Wilfred Templeman", which the Coast Guard uses to fill in for the other vessels when they are out of service for repairs.

STX Canada Marine Inc., of Vancouver, British Columbia will design the Canadian Coast Guard’s new offshore oceanographic science vessel. The new vessel, which was announced in Budget 2007, is intended to replace "CCGS Hudson" on the East Coast.