CCGS Tupper

CCGS Tupper

The CCGS Tupper was a Canadian Coast Guard Ice-strengthened Navigation aids vessel that served from 1959-1998.

The vessel was commissioned into the Department of Transport's Marine Service as CGS Tupper in 1959 at Marine Industries, Sorel using the prefix "Canadian Government Ship". In 1962 the Marine Service fleet was merged into the newly formed Canadian Coast Guard (CCG) and the CGS Tupper was renamed CCGS Tupper.

CCGS Tupper was based at CCG Dartmouth Base (Dartmouth, Nova Scotia), throughout most of her active days . Her sistership Simon Fraser was in the later part of her career also stationed in Dartmouth. Tupper was active in servicing the navigation aids of Atlantic Canada as well as operating in heavy ice conditions in the Gulf of St. Lawrence and St. Lawrence River, and also acted as a harbour cleanup vessel. She occasionally traveled to the north. Earlier in her career she was stationed in Charlottetown, PEI.