The icebreaker “Judy Lamarsh” stopped at the Canadian Coast Guard base in Amherstburg Feb. 1. According to local resident Terry Hall, who sent in two of the photos, it was originally built in Romania as an icebreaking tug for Kazakhstan, later registered in Turkmenistan, and acquired by the Canadian government in 2021 to be named for the former federal Cabinet Minister Judy Lamarsh. It recently underwent a $34.3 million refit. Dave Cozens, who also submitted photos seen here, said the ship arrived about noon Feb. 1 and departed about 7:30 p.m., heading towards Lake Erie. Cozens said the ship’s approach to the dock was very unusual, heading up the river from Lake Erie, she made a U-turn and backed into the dock facing downstream. It was built in 2010 as a shallow draft icebreaking tug for the Caspian Sea oil fields, capable of breaking ice about 90 cm (35 inches) thick.
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