The RCMP vessel Nadon is a patrol vessel operated by the Royal Canadian Mounted Police

Royal Canadian Mounted Police

The Royal Canadian Mounted Police , literally ‘Royal Gendarmerie of Canada’; colloquially known as The Mounties, and internally as ‘The Force’) is the national police force of Canada, and one of the most recognized of its kind in the world. It is unique in the world as a national, federal,...

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She normally patrols the Georgia Strait off Vancouver, British Columbia and Victoria, British Columbia

Victoria, British Columbia

Victoria is the capital city of British Columbia, Canada and is located on the southern tip of Vancouver Island off Canada's Pacific coast. The city has a population of about 78,000 within the metropolitan area of Greater Victoria, which has a population of 360,063, the 15th most populous Canadian...

. In 1999, she was staffed by volunteers who recreated the historic 1940-42 transit of the Northwest Passage

Northwest Passage

The Northwest Passage is a sea route through the Arctic Ocean, along the northern coast of North America via waterways amidst the Canadian Arctic Archipelago, connecting the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans...

 of the RCMP St. Roch.

The Nadon is an aluminium catamaran. For her transit of the Northwest Passage she was renamed St. Roch II, and was escorted by the CCGS Simon Fraser

CCGS Simon Fraser

The CCGS Simon Fraser is a buoy tender once operated by the Canadian Coast Guard.She was built, in 1960, at the Burrard Dry Docks, in Vancouver, British Columbia.She was modernized in 1986, at Versatile Marine, Montreal, Quebec....

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The original St. Roch's voyage was so impeded by ice that it took 28 months, but the Nadon completed her transit in a single season.