
Technical Specifications
Overview
Canadian Coast Guard Ship Griffon is a Canadian Coast Guard (CCG) high endurance multi-tasked vessel and light icebreaker stationed in Prescott, Ontario, Canada. Completed in 1970, Griffon provides icebreaking services along eastern Lake Ontario and upriver along the Saint Lawrence River to Montreal.
Compliance
On 17 April 2025, the Canadian Coast Guard Ship "GRIFFON", with 28 people on board, reported having sustained a fire on its main engine number 1 exhaust system while performing aids to navigation service near Bradford Island, ON. The crew extinguished the fire and carry out the repairs. The vessel continued his voyage using the main engine number 2.
On 07 September 2024, the Canadian Coast Guard Ship "GRIFFON", with 30 people on board, reported having made bottom contact while servicing a buoy in Long Point Bay, ON. The crew verified the vessel's integrity and resumed operations.
On 28 January 2022, the Canadian Coast Guard ice breaker "GRIFFON" reported having struck the dock while berthing at the US Coast Guard Station in St. Ignace, MI, USA. The vessel sustained minor damage.
On 27 April 2021, the Canadian Coast Guard Ship "GRIFFON" reported having sustained a propulsion failure 3 nautical miles SW off Saint-Jean-de-l'Île-d'Orléans, QC. The vessel proceeded to a nearby anchorage by using its other engine.
On 04 December 2020, the Canadian Coast Guard ship "GRIFFON" reported a serious injury to a crew member's finger. The crew member was medevaced to the nearest hospital by the Canadian Coast Guard air cushion vehicle "MAMILOSSA".
On 18 February 2020, the buoy tender "GRIFFON" reported a minor fire in the engine room while moored in Port Colborne, On. The fire was quickly extinguisher and no damage was reported.
On 02 May 2019, the Canadian Coast Guard ship "GRIFFON" reported having touched bottom while buoy tending on Lake Ontario off Niagara-on-the-Lake, ON. No injuries, damage, or pollution was reported.
On 02 April 2019, the Canadian Coast Guard ship "GRIFFON" reported that a crew member sustained head injuries, on the Lake Ontario off Cape Vincent, NY. The crew member was medevaced to the Hospital.
Recorded marine occurrences naming this vessel.
Composite Risk
Multiple adverse factors, or a hard ship-specific signal, lift this hull above the fleet norm.
A coverage-weighted blend of the single component we could read for this hull; the weights renormalise over only the components present, so a thin read is never inflated and a hull is never credited a “safe 0” for a signal it has no row for. This headline is flagged low-confidence (a thin or structural-only read) and should not be treated as a verdict. Higher means riskier. Derived in-house from government-open port-State-control, flag, sanctions and our own vessel data; weight it by the coverage above.
Commercial
Price it in the Route Planner between any two commercial ports: ballast and laden legs, two fuels at live bunker prices, port and canal costs, the weather on the way, and the TCE set against the market.

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