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Icebreaker needed on Georgian Bay, Canada's largest icebreaker operating in the Great Lakes, the Coast Guard ship Griffon has been working out of Midland for winter
Icebreaker needed on Georgian Bay, Canada's largest icebreaker operating in the Great Lakes, the Coast Guard ship Griffon has been working out of Midland for winter

Icebreaker needed on Georgian Bay, Canada's largest icebreaker operating in the Great Lakes, the Coast Guard ship Griffon has been working out of Midland for winter

Date2/7/1975
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Original Toronto Star caption: Icebreaker needed on Georgian Bay; Canada's largest icebreaker operating in the Great Lakes; the Coast Guard ship Griffon has been working out of Midland for winter.
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CollectionToronto Star Photograph Archive
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Call Number / Accession NumberTSPA_0010349F
Ice breaker needed on Georgian Bay, Canada's largest icebreaker operating in the Great Lakes, the Coast Guard ship Griffon has been working out of Mid(...)
Ice breaker needed on Georgian Bay, Canada's largest icebreaker operating in the Great Lakes, the Coast Guard ship Griffon has been working out of Mid(...)
2/7/1975
Reopening a channel on Georgian Bay, the Canadian Coast Guard icebreaker Griffon plows through 12-inch-thick cakes of ice near Midland. It had come to(...)
Reopening a channel on Georgian Bay, the Canadian Coast Guard icebreaker Griffon plows through 12-inch-thick cakes of ice near Midland. It had come to(...)
3/16/1977
Icebreaker Griffon Crunches its way through 3-foot-thick ice on Nottawasaga Bay off Collingwood
Icebreaker Griffon Crunches its way through 3-foot-thick ice on Nottawasaga Bay off Collingwood
3/21/1978
Icebreaker Griffon Crunches its way through 3-foot-thick ice on Nottawasaga Bay off Collingwood as its observer-helicoptor and pilot Stuart Fraser hov(...)
Icebreaker Griffon Crunches its way through 3-foot-thick ice on Nottawasaga Bay off Collingwood as its observer-helicoptor and pilot Stuart Fraser hov(...)
3/17/1978
Image shows some crewmen of the icebreaker working in the storm.
Oh for the life for a sailor. Crewmen of the Coast Guard icebreaker Griffon grapple with a giant navigation buoy in Toronto Harbor in yesterday's snow(...)
12/12/1972
Action - the real thing: Griffon ploughs through thick ice off Midland
Action - the real thing: Griffon ploughs through thick ice off Midland
3/24/1980
Coast guard's Sir Wilfrid Laurier is due to be launched in Collingwood tomorrow morning
Coast guard's Sir Wilfrid Laurier is due to be launched in Collingwood tomorrow morning
12/5/1985
Smiling P.O. Feodorov of Leningrad is en route home aboard Cedar Lake, one of the Canadian-made minesweepers being built at Midland and Penetanguishen(...)
Smiling P.O. Feodorov of Leningrad is en route home aboard Cedar Lake, one of the Canadian-made minesweepers being built at Midland and Penetanguishen(...)
11/14/1945
Missile destroyer pays US a visit, Honor guard of sailors from the HMS Hampshire march briskly away after ceremonies welcoming the ship-one of Britain(...)
Missile destroyer pays US a visit, Honor guard of sailors from the HMS Hampshire march briskly away after ceremonies welcoming the ship-one of Britain(...)
6/5/1967
H.M.C.S. Uganda arrives at Esquismalt, B.C., after service in the Pacific. It was Canada's first cruiser only ship fighting in Pacific Waters. The 8,0(...)
H.M.C.S. Uganda arrives at Esquismalt, B.C., after service in the Pacific. It was Canada's first cruiser only ship fighting in Pacific Waters. The 8,0(...)
8/11/1945
Captain Earl McNaught. Skipper of icebreaker Griffon
Captain Earl McNaught. Skipper of icebreaker Griffon
3/16/1977
Fun Ship: Life aboard the warship HMCS Annapolis seemed luxurious to Soviet sailors, who marvelled at its microwave oven, popcorn - and the ship's photocopier
Fun Ship: Life aboard the warship HMCS Annapolis seemed luxurious to Soviet sailors, who marvelled at its microwave oven, popcorn - and the ship's photocopier
8/24/1982