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• NAVY – SMALL SHIPS AND FLEET AUXILIARIES
Overviews of Candian Forces Auxiliary Vessels and other CF small ships appear below. The specific vessel type pages have been removed due to lack of interest. [ Note:
sideviews of vessels shown below are
not rendered to a constant scale.]
YTR Tug – Fire Class
Though classed as a tug, the Fire class are really a dedicated fire and rescue boat with three nozzles to
spray water or foam. One YTR (Firebird) is based at Halifax , the other YTR (Firebrand) at
Esquimalt.
Towboats (Tugs) : the Canadian Navy currently has three classes of harbour tugs in
service – light Ville YTLs, medium Tillicum YTM, and heavy Glen YTB
tugs.
YTL Tug – Ville Class
There are 5 x Ville class Light Harbour Tugs (or YTLs), two in BC, three on the
East Coast. Ville class tugs have bollard pulls of up to 7.5 tons.
YTM Tug – Tillicum is a lone Medium Harbour Tugs (YTM) based at
Esquimalt. Tillicum displaces 140 gross tonnes. Bollard pull is 16 tons ahead; 10 tons astern. Tillicum is
propelled by twin Kort nozzles. In contrast with the Ville class which have steerable Kort nozzles, the
YTM's nozzles are fixed ( it steers with rudders ).
YTB Tug – Glen Class
Two Glen class YTBs or Heavy Harbour Tugs are based in BC, three in NS. Like the smaller YTL tug, the open
sea performance of the Glen tug is limited but the YTB excels within protected harbours. Their
max bollard pull is 19 tons
Diver Recovery & Diving Tenders
Diver recovery is handled by rigid hull inflatable boats and
aluminum jet boats. There are two classes of diving tenders –
the medium YDT 11/YDT 12 Granby and the larger YDT Sechelt / Sooke conversions.
YDT Dive Tenders
YDT 11 and YDT 12 Granby ( called D.T. 11 and D.T. 12 sometimes) are two medium-sized
diver tenders. YDT 11 is based at Esquimalt (Colwood) and the Granby at Halifax.
YDT Sechelt and Sooke are two
diving tender coversions of Sechelt class TSRV Torpedo Sound Range Vessels found to be surplus to Nanoose
Bay range needs.
TSRV – the Sechelt class
The Sechelts are purpose built vessels intended for use at the Maritime Exper- imental and Test Ranges,
Nanoose Bay, BC. Two of the four TSRVs were later converted as FDU YDTs.
YAG 300 Training Boat
Yard Auxiliary, General is the generic term for what became dedicated officer and cadet training boats.
Other wooden YAG 300s became YFB ferry boats. YAGs will be replaced by the new Orca class
PCTs.
PCT – the Orca Class
The Orca class PCT are just entering service as YAG 300 replacements. Primarily training boats,
"Patrol Craft, Training" will include occasional sovereignty patrol duty as (and when)
required.
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