Search and rescue lifeboats

These shore-stationed self-righting lifeboats:

provide key search and rescue services, including:
- conducting searches on water
- responding to marine distress calls
- providing assistance to disabled vessels
operate up to 100 nautical miles from shore
replace the Canadian Coast Guard’s existing search and rescue vessels

Canadian Coast Guard Ship Baie de Plaisance

Project at a glance

Shipyard: Chantier Naval Forillon (Gaspé, Quebec) and Hike Metal Products (Wheatley, Ontario)
Number of vessels to be built: 20 in total (10 per shipyard)
Project budget: $178.9 million (including taxes)
First vessel delivered: Late 2017
Project completion: 2025

Delivery and acceptance of vessels 1 through 18:

Canadian Coast Guard Ship (CCGS) Groswater Bay and CCGS Cascumpec Bay delivered in 2024
CCGS Barrington Bay and CCGS Baie des Chaleurs delivered in 2023
CCGS Gabarus Bay, CCGS Chedabucto Bay, CCGS Shediac Bay and CCGS Chignecto Bay delivered in 2022
CCGS Hare Bay and CCGS La Poile Bay delivered in 2021
CCGS Cadboro Bay and CCGS Florencia Bay delivered in 2020
CCGS Sacred Bay and CCGS Conception Bay delivered in 2019
CCGS McIntyre Bay and CCGS Pachena Bay delivered in 2018
CCGS Pennant Bay and CCGS Baie de Plaisance delivered in 2017

Construction of vessels 19 and 20 is expected throughout 2025.