CCGS Griffon

CCGS Griffon is a Canadian Coast Guard High Endurance Multi-Tasked Vessel and Light Icebreaker stationed in Prescott, Ontario, Canada. The CCG classes her as a "High Endurance Multi-Tasked Vessel – Light Icebreaker".

The ship provides icebreaking services along the eastern Lake Ontario and upriver along the St. Lawrence River to Montreal.

History
Griffon was launched in 1970 from Davie Shipbuilding in Lauzon, Quebec and staffed by a crew of 25. She has a 118 m2 flight deck, to land helicopters, but unlike larger CCG vessels she has no hangar. On February 13, 2009, The vessel broke ice at the mouth of the Grand River that had caused a flood in the small towns of Dunnville and Cayuga, Ontario.