CCGS John Cabot (1965)
John Cabot, 1973 | |
| History | |
|---|---|
| Canada | |
| Name | CCGS John Cabot |
| Namesake | John Cabot |
| Owner | CCG |
| Ordered | 1962 |
| Builder | Canadian Vickers |
| Christened | 31 May 1965 |
| In service | 1965 |
| Out of service | 1994 |
| Identification | Call sign: CGDJ |
| Name | CS John Cabot |
| Namesake | John Cabot |
| Owner | Teleglobe Canada |
| In service | 1994 |
| Out of service | 1997 |
| Identification | Call sign: VCGM |
| History | |
| Italy | |
| Name | CS Certamen |
| Owner | Elettra |
| In service | 1997 |
| Out of service | 2010 |
| Identification | Call sign: IBUC, IMO number: 6514974 |
| History | |
| France | |
| Name | Certa |
| Owner | France Telecom |
| In service | 2010 |
| Fate | scrapped 2014 |
| General characteristics | |
| Class & type | Heavy icebreaker, cable repair ship |
| Displacement |
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| Length | 313.3 feet (95.5 m) |
| Beam | 60.3 feet (18.4 m) |
| Draught | 34.2 feet (10.4 m) |
| Propulsion | diesel-electric twin-screw — 9,000 hp (6,700 kW) engine powering 4x 3,000 bhp (2,200 kW) generators driving 2x 4,500 shp (3,400 kW) propulsion motors |
| Range | 16,000 kilometres (9,900 mi) |
| Complement | 85 |
| Aviation facilities | Helicopter deck with telescoping hangar |
| Notes | Cable capacity: 400 miles (640 km) |
CCGS John Cabot (id: 320951;IMO number: 6514974; MMSI number: 247253000) was a Canadian Coast Guard heavy icebreaker and cable ship in service starting 1965. It passed out of CCG service and entered private service in 1994, as the cable ship CS John Cabot. In 1997, it was again renamed, becoming CS Certamen. The ship was scrapped in 2014, under the name Certa. It was the world's first icebreaking cable repair ship built. In 1985, it recovered the black boxes from Air India Flight 182. As of 2023, the John Cabot participated in the deepest submarine rescue ever performed, in 1973, retrieving Pisces III from the seafloor at 480 m (1,570 ft) and rescuing the crew of Roger Mallinson and Roger Chapman.