Le P'TIT ST PIERRE lighthouse tender

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Built as a buoy tender under yard No 22 by Breton Industrial & Marine yard in Point Tupper near Port Hawkesbury, Nova Scotia, Canada.
Launched as NGCC ÎLE DES BARQUES.
Tonnage 92.06 grt, 35,98 net, dim. 23 x 6 x 1.35m. (draught).
Powered by 2 geared General Motors 8V-92 diesel engines, 475 hp., twin controllable pitch propellers, speed 8.5 knots. Fuel capacity 19.4 cubic metre.
Range 10 days.
One hold of 43m³.
Crew 5.
1985 Completed, home port Charlottetown.

She was one of a class of four buoy tenders Type 800 the class was designed by Robert Allan td., Vancouver for the Canadian Coast Guard..
The NGCC ÎLE DES BARQUES was used in the upper St Lawrence River and Ottawa River.
After taken out of service laid up in Arichat Nova Scotia.
14 January 2009 sold to Government of St Pierre et Miquelon and renamed Le P’TIT ST PIERRE.
Managed by Armement des Phares et Balises (APB) (Lighthouses and buoys).
2011 In service as a lighthouse tender based at St Pierre, St Perre et Miquelon.

St Pierre et Miquelon 2011 0.60 Euro sg?, scott?

Source: Jean-Louis Araignon and various internet sites.