About FMFCB Fleet Maintenance Facility Cape Breton exists today to support the operations of the Royal Canadian Navy’s Pacific Fleet. It is responsible to the Commander Maritime Forces Pacific for the provision of effective and efficient naval engineering repair, and maintenance to support the operational capabilities required in the Pacific Fleet and other organizations within Maritime Forces Pacific.
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n addition to supporting the ADM (Material) Group in the provision of services to the Fleet, FMFCB performs work for
Engineering Unit Pacific (NEUP), and Fleet Maintenance Group Pacific (FMGP) into one unit.
It is the most versatile facility of its
FMFCB is led by a Commanding Officer, in the rank of Captain (Navy), and the unit is organized into seven departments:
type of the Canadian West Coast,
• Operations;
the Air and Land Forces, as well as for other government agencies.
with a highly skilled and adaptable work force who have an impressive and broad range of capabilities. Together they support the readiness
• Production; • Engineering; • Unit Support;
and sustainability of the surface and
• Finance;
submarine fleets.
• Strategy; and
FMFCB was formed April 1, 1996, by amalgamating the former Ship Repair Unit Pacific (SRUP), Naval
civilians and 125 military Defence Team members in a fully integrated workforce. This large, diversified workforce of civilian tradespeople and military technicians carry out repairs and refits ranging from structural survey and repair to overhauling computer and communication systems. Specialists manage engineering services that include naval architecture, marine systems, and combat systems engineering.
• Process Integration.
Military personnel come from
In 2021, the FMFCB team was comprised of approximately 964
technical trades including marine
a number of sea operations and and combat systems engineers; CONTINUED ➔
FMF CAPE BRETON 1996 - 2021
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