Matches in DBpedia 2014 for { ?s ?p The Queenston class is a class of naval auxiliaries for the Royal Canadian Navy (RCN). The class began as the Joint Support Ship Project, a Government of Canada procurement project for the RCN that is part of the National Shipbuilding Procurement Strategy. It will see the RCN acquire two multi-role vessels to replace the Protecteur class auxiliary oiler replenishment (AOR) vessels currently operated by the RCN.The project has suffered from considerable delays. Originally announced in 2004, a contract for the construction of these ships was to have been signed in 2009 which would have seen the first vessel available for operational service in 2012. In 2010 the federal government grouped the Joint Support Ship Project under the National Shipbuilding Procurement Strategy which was finalized in October 2011. Currently the federal government is in contract negotiations with the winning proponent Seaspan Marine Corporation for building the Joint Support Ship Project and several other non-combat ship procurements for the RCN and the Canadian Coast Guard.On June 2, 2013, it was announced that ThyssenKrupp Marine Systems Canada's Berlin Class AOR was selected as the design for the Joint Support Ship Project.Due to the decision to constructing the Queenston-class naval auxiliaries first, the delivery of the new polar icebreaker, CCGS John G. Diefenbaker, is delayed until the 2020s.. }
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- Queenston-class_auxiliary_vessel abstract "The Queenston class is a class of naval auxiliaries for the Royal Canadian Navy (RCN). The class began as the Joint Support Ship Project, a Government of Canada procurement project for the RCN that is part of the National Shipbuilding Procurement Strategy. It will see the RCN acquire two multi-role vessels to replace the Protecteur class auxiliary oiler replenishment (AOR) vessels currently operated by the RCN.The project has suffered from considerable delays. Originally announced in 2004, a contract for the construction of these ships was to have been signed in 2009 which would have seen the first vessel available for operational service in 2012. In 2010 the federal government grouped the Joint Support Ship Project under the National Shipbuilding Procurement Strategy which was finalized in October 2011. Currently the federal government is in contract negotiations with the winning proponent Seaspan Marine Corporation for building the Joint Support Ship Project and several other non-combat ship procurements for the RCN and the Canadian Coast Guard.On June 2, 2013, it was announced that ThyssenKrupp Marine Systems Canada's Berlin Class AOR was selected as the design for the Joint Support Ship Project.Due to the decision to constructing the Queenston-class naval auxiliaries first, the delivery of the new polar icebreaker, CCGS John G. Diefenbaker, is delayed until the 2020s.".