Vessel Profile

Balder Viking

Balder Viking
Photo: www.inter-j01.dfo-mpo.gc.ca. Government of Canada

Story

This icebreaker, medium was built in 2000 by Havyard Leirvik A.S..

Owners & Masters

In 2000 she was owned by Trans Viking Icebreaking & Offshore AS, Sweden.

In 2019-2022 she was owned by the Minister of Fisheries and Oceans, for the Canadian Coast Guard, Ottawa ON Canada.

Name Significance

Named for Jean Cuthand Goodwill (1928–1997), a Canadian Cree nurse who, in 1954, became Saskatchewan's first Aboriginal woman to finish a nursing program.

References

Canada List of Shipping

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