CCGS Bradbury

CCGS Bradbury (and previously CGS Bradbury) is a retired ship for the federal Department of Transport's Marine Services (as predecessor of today's Canadian Coast Guard), built in 1915. Prefabricated in Sorel, Quebec, Bradbury was assembled on the bank of the Selkirk slough in 1915. During her career she served the Federal Government as fishing patrol vessel, a lighthouse tender and an icebreaker until she was forced to retire in 1973. In 1917, Bradbury travelled through thick ice, taking doctors and medicine to a northern settlement struck by a flu epidemic.

CCGS Bradbury

CCGS Bradbury (and previously CGS Bradbury) is a retired ship for the federal Department of Transport's Marine Services (as predecessor of today's Canadian Coast Guard), built in 1915. Prefabricated in Sorel, Quebec, Bradbury was assembled on the bank of the Selkirk slough in 1915. During her career she served the Federal Government as fishing patrol vessel, a lighthouse tender and an icebreaker until she was forced to retire in 1973. In 1917, Bradbury travelled through thick ice, taking doctors and medicine to a northern settlement struck by a flu epidemic.