Alexander Henry
1959
(Dedo DE-20)
- Class: Medium Navaids Tender - Light Icebreaker
- Displacement: 1,674 tons
- Dimensions: 210 x 44 x 18 ft.
- Machinery: Two 10-cyl. Fairbanks Morse diesels, 3,550 bhp, twin screw = 13 knots
- Complement:
- Builder: Port Arthur Shipbuilding Co Ltd, Port Arthur, Canada
- Commissioned: 1959
- Notes: Commissioned into the Department of Transport's Marine Service as CGS Alexander Henry using the prefix "Canadian Government Ship." She was transferred in 1962 to the newly-created Canadian Coast Guard and given the new prefix CCGS. Served her entire career on the Great Lakes until retired from service in 1984 after CCGS Samuel Risley entered service. Became a museum ship at the Marine Museum of the Great Lakes in Kingston, Ontario from 1986 to 2017, when she was sold to the Lakehead Transportation Museum Society in Thunder Bay; she continues as a museum ship.
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