CCGS Cape Fox

{{short description|Canadian Coast Guard motor lifeboat}}

{{Other uses|Cape Fox (disambiguation)}}

{{Infobox ship begin}} {{Infobox ship image |Ship image=CCGC Cape Sutil at CCG Station Port Hardy.jpg |Ship caption=Sister ship CCGS Cape Sutil at Port Hardy }} {{Infobox ship career |Hide header= |Ship country=Canada |Ship flag={{shipboxflag|Canada|coast guard}} |Ship name=Cape Fox |Ship namesake=Cape Fox |Ship operator=Canadian Coast Guard |Ship ordered= |Ship awarded= |Ship builder=Victoria Shipyards, Victoria, British Columbia |Ship original cost= |Ship yard number=824504 |Ship way number= |Ship laid down= |Ship launched= |Ship sponsor= |Ship christened=2008 |Ship completed= |Ship acquired= |Ship commissioned= |Ship recommissioned= |Ship decommissioned= |Ship in service= |Ship out of service= |Ship renamed= |Ship reclassified= |Ship refit= |Ship struck= |Ship reinstated= |Ship homeport=CCG Base Lark Harbour, Newfoundland and Labrador |Ship identification={{MMSI Number|316002527}} |Ship motto= |Ship nickname= |Ship honors= |Ship captured= |Ship status={{Ship in active service}} |Ship notes= |Ship badge= }} {{Infobox ship characteristics |Hide header= |Header caption= |Ship class={{sclass2|Cape|motor lifeboat|1}} |Ship tonnage=* {{GT|33.8}} {{NetT|25.3}} |Ship displacement= |Ship length= {{convert|14.6|m|ftin|abbr=on}} |Ship beam= {{convert|4.27|m|ftin|abbr=on}} |Ship height= |Ship draft= {{convert|1.37|m|ftin|abbr=on}} |Ship ice class= |Ship propulsion=2 × diesel electric engines, {{convert|675|kW|abbr=on}} |Ship speed= {{convert|22|kn|km/h}} cruise |Ship range={{convert|200|nmi|km|abbr=on}} |Ship endurance=1 day |Ship complement=4 |Ship sensors= |Ship EW= |Ship armament= |Ship armor= |Ship notes= }}

CCGS Cape Fox is one of the Canadian Coast Guard's 36 {{sclass2|Cape|motor lifeboat|1}}s.

{{cite news

|url = http://www.dfo-mpo.gc.ca/media/npress-communique/2005/nl-tnl23-eng.htm

|title = Vessel Commissionings in Port au Choix and Lark Harbour

|publisher = Canadian Coast Guard

|author = Susan Goodyear

|archiveurl = https://web.archive.org/web/20110903161334/http://www.dfo-mpo.gc.ca/media/npress-communique/2005/nl-tnl23-eng.htm

|quote = Both CCGS Cape Norman and CCGS Cape Fox operate from May to October on 30-minute state of readiness with 24 hours a day, seven days a week coverage. The CCGS Cape Norman's primary area of operation is from Cow Head north to Cape Bauld along the west coast of the island of Newfoundland. The CCGS Cape Fox's area of operation is from Port aux Basques north to Cow Head.

|archivedate = 2011-09-03

|date = 2005-06-27

|url-status = dead

}}

{{cite news

|url = http://www.ccg-gcc.gc.ca/e0003332

|title = CCGS Cape Fox / CCGS Cape Norman

|publisher = Canadian Coast Guard

|date = 2008-07-28

|author = Carol Bond

|archiveurl = https://web.archive.org/web/20110612141223/http://www.ccg-gcc.gc.ca/e0003332

|archivedate = 2011-06-12

|url-status = dead

}}

She and a sister vessel, {{ship|CCGS|Cape Norman}}, serve the northern coast of Newfoundland. Her home port is Lark Harbour.

{{cite news

|url = http://www.ccg-gcc.gc.ca/eng/Fleet/Vessels?id=1015

|title = Fleet: CCGS Cape Fox

|publisher = Canadian Coast Guard

|date = 2008-03-31

|archiveurl = https://web.archive.org/web/20100617203332/http://www.ccg-gcc.gc.ca/eng/Fleet/Vessels?id=1015

|archivedate = 2010-06-17

|url-status = dead

}}

Cape Fox and Cape Norman were built in 2002 at Victoria Shipyards, Victoria, British Columbia.

{{cite news

|url = http://www.nfl.dfo-mpo.gc.ca/e0004435

|title = Careers

|publisher = Canadian Coast Guard

|date = 2009-02-25

|archiveurl = https://web.archive.org/web/20090528165606/http://www.nfl.dfo-mpo.gc.ca/e0004435

|archivedate = 2009-05-28

|quote = One interesting story I have seen in my job experience is about the journey of two vessels, the Cape Fox and Cape Norman. They are two 47' motor life boats weighing approximately 34 tonnes and were built by Victoria Shipyards in British Columbia. These two vessels were actually loaded into another ship on Vancouver Island and then the ship sailed through the Panama Canal to the Port of New York, the reason for this being that the ship could not unload in a Canadian port due to regulations. These two vessels (Cape Fox and Cape Norman) actually sailed under their own power to Dartmouth and then eventually to Newfoundland and Labrador. This was quite a long and interesting journey for these two little vessels!

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}} The two vessels were shipped from Vancouver to New York City aboard another vessel, where they proceeded under their own power.