Arctic/Offshore Patrol Ship AOPS

[Oldgateboatdriver]

Fully agree with Colin on this one. The Coast Guard usually has three or four icebreakers at a time up in the Arctic during the navigation season. They can't be everywhere help is needed. Any AOPS up there at the time will at the very least be called upon to "assist" some ships whenever they are the closest one. It won't be CG type assistance, i.e. they will not escort the ship to where they are going, but the AOPS will at the very least get them out of being stuck in the ice, and /or provide first line emergency help (for medical or damage control situations).

 

[Halifax Tar]

https://twitter.com/x/status/1819462852123807899

In the right place at the right time

That's an HMCS Cataraqui ships crest! My first unit.

The right way, the wrong way, the Cataraqui

 

[Furniture]

That's an HMCS Cataraqui ships crest! My first unit.

The right way, the wrong way, the Cataraqui

That's odd... with velcro ship's crests people should be rocking the APd unit, not their home unit.

 

[Halifax Tar]

That's odd... with velcro ship's crests people should be rocking the APd unit, not their home unit.

Silly you, expecting uniformity from uniforms

 

[Fabius]

Reading the other thread about the RCN response to the Chinese vessel in the Bering Strait and the deployment of the HMCS Regina got me wondering if the AOPS will be used as Ready Duty Ships or is that something reserved for the frigates?

 

[Underway]

Reading the other thread about the RCN response to the Chinese vessel in the Bering Strait and the deployment of the HMCS Regina got me wondering if the AOPS will be used as Ready Duty Ships or is that something reserved for the frigates?

For sure they will be RDS. MCDV's are often RDS.

Regina wasn't RDS though ( I don't think). She was supposed to sail a week later anyways, but were moved up a week because of obvious reason.

 

[FSTO]

Reading the other thread about the RCN response to the Chinese vessel in the Bering Strait and the deployment of the HMCS Regina got me wondering if the AOPS will be used as Ready Duty Ships or is that something reserved for the frigates?

Fixed it for you

 

[Navy_Pete]

Reading the other thread about the RCN response to the Chinese vessel in the Bering Strait and the deployment of the HMCS Regina got me wondering if the AOPS will be used as Ready Duty Ships or is that something reserved for the frigates?

They do the same when we are in their backyard, it's pretty common. It's only a news story sometimes but happens all the time.