CCGS Westport is a Canadian Coast Guard

Canadian Coast Guard

The Canadian Coast Guard is the coast guard of Canada. It is a federal agency responsible for providing maritime search and rescue , aids to navigation, marine pollution response, marine radio, and icebreaking...

 search and rescue vessel homeported in Westport

Westport, Nova Scotia

Westport, Nova Scotia is a village in Digby County, Nova Scotia and it is located on Brier Island in the Bay of Fundy. The village was incorporated in 1946. A ferry service connects the village with Freeport, Nova Scotia on Long Island...

, Nova Scotia

Nova Scotia

Nova Scotia is one of Canada's three Maritime provinces and is the most populous province in Atlantic Canada. The name of the province is Latin for "New Scotland," but "Nova Scotia" is the recognized, English-language name of the province. The provincial capital is Halifax. Nova Scotia is the...

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She is a Canadian Coast Guard Arun-class lifeboat, based on the United Kingdom

United Kingdom

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 15.77 metres (51.7 ft) Arun-class

Arun class lifeboat

The Arun class lifeboat is a fast all-weather lifeboat designed by the Royal National Lifeboat Institution for service at its stations around the coasts of Great Britain and Ireland. They were operated by the RNLI between 1971 and 2008...

 motor life boat design.
She entered service in 1997.

Westport is staffed by a crew of four and allows rescued persons to survive one day before help arrives.

See also

Westport is one of 10 Arun class lifeboats operated by the Canadian Coast Guard

Canadian Coast Guard

The Canadian Coast Guard is the coast guard of Canada. It is a federal agency responsible for providing maritime search and rescue , aids to navigation, marine pollution response, marine radio, and icebreaking...

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• CCGS Sambro - one of two lifeboat operating out of Sambro, Nova Scotia
  Sambro, Nova Scotia
  Sambro is a rural fishing community on the Chebucto Peninsula in the Halifax Regional Municipality, in Nova Scotia, Canada.Located on the Atlantic Ocean at the head of Sambro Harbour, the community is immediately west of the entrance to Halifax Harbour...
  
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• CCGS Clarks Harbour - same class of boat operating out of Port Hardy, British Columbia
  Port Hardy, British Columbia
  Port Hardy is a district municipality in British Columbia, Canada located on the north-eastern coast of Vancouver Island. Port Hardy has a population of 3822 at last census...
  
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