CCGS_Cape_Hearne
CCGS Cape Hearne is one of the Canadian Coast Guard's 36 Cape-class motor lifeboats.[1] She as christened in 2005, at the Canadian Coast Guard station at Kingston, Ontario.
On March 27, 2012, Cape Hearne and Canadian and American helicopters and aircraft were deployed to help rescue the crew of the tugboat Patrice McAllister, which was disabled due to a fire in her engine room.[2]
Cape Hearne is near the mouth of the Coppermine River, on the Arctic Ocean, and is named after Samuel Hearne the first European to map the Coppermine River.[1]