Credit: Irving
Halifax Shipyard
11 December 2017
The first Arctic and Offshore Patrol Ship (AOPS) for
Royal Canadian Navy, ‘HMCS Harry DeWolf’, has been assembled at Irving Shipbuilding’s
Halifax Shipyard, last week, after the bow section of the first AOPS was
transported.
On Friday, December 8, 2017, the bow section of the first
AOPS was transported on heavy lift transporters from inside the Halifax
Shipyard’s indoor shipbuilding facility outside to land level.
The work will continue over the coming weeks, in order to
join the bow mega-block and its components to the centre and stern mega-blocks.
With all three sections of the first AOPS having been
joined, further outfitting of the ship will continue.
There are currently two AOPS, the future HMCS Harry DeWolf
and the future HMCS Margaret Brooke, being constructed at Halifax Shipyard,
with steel cutting for the third AOPS, the future HMCS Max Bernays, scheduled
for later in December.
The ‘HMCS Harry DeWolf’ is expected to be launched at
Halifax Shipyard next summer.
“It is clear that the National Shipbuilding Strategy is
working. The Royal Canadian Navy’s ships are being built by the best
shipbuilders in the most modern shipbuilding facility in North America,
Canada’s shipbuilding industry is being reinvigorated, and Canadians are
benefiting from coast to coast to coast,” Kevin McCoy, president of Irving
Shipbuilding, stated.
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