CCGS Bradbury

CCGS Bradbury at Marine Museum of Manitoba
History
Canada
Name	Bradbury
Owner	Government of Canada
Operator	Department of Marine Department of Transport Marine Service Canadian Coast Guard
Builder	Government Shipyard, Sorel
Laid down	1915
Commissioned	1915
Decommissioned	1935
In service	1915
Out of service	1973
Homeport	Selkirk, Manitoba
Status	Museum ship since 1973
General characteristics
Type	Fisheries patrol vessel/lighthouse tender/Icebreaker
Length	158 ft (48 m)
Speed	15 knots (28 km/h)

CGS Bradbury (later CCGS Bradbury)^[a] is a retired fisheries patrol vessel for the federal Department of Transport's Marine Services (as predecessor of today's Canadian Coast Guard), constructed in 1915. The vessel was sold to commercial interests in 1935. The ship was removed from service in 1973 and became a museum ship on static display at the Marine Museum of Manitoba.

Bradbury was of steel construction. 158 feet (48 m) long, the ship had a maximum speed of 15 knots (28 km/h). Initially powered by coal-burning steam engines, the ship was converted to diesel engines in 1935.^[1]

Prefabricated in Sorel, Quebec, Bradbury was assembled on the bank of the Selkirk, Manitoba slough in 1915.^[2] Bradbury was operated as a federal fisheries patrol vessel on Lake Winnipeg until 1930, when the ship was transferred to the provincial Manitoba government.^[3] In 1917, Bradbury travelled through thick ice, taking doctors and medicine to a northern settlement struck by a flu epidemic.^[2]

Recommissioned in 1952 after having been idle since 1935, Bradbury remained in service until 1973. Bradbury is now on static display at the Marine Museum of Manitoba.^[2]

• Piper, Liza (2009). The Industrial Transformation of Subarctic Canada. Vancouver: UBC Press. ISBN 978-0-7748-1532-1.

50°08′47″N 96°51′54″W / 50.146377°N 96.865109°W / 50.146377; -96.865109