Entering service in 2013, the vessel is based at Quebec City and tasked with enforcing Canadian maritime law within Canada's borders.

has a fuel capacity of 34 m3 (7,500 imp gal) giving the vessel a range of 2,000 nautical miles (3,700 km; 2,300 mi) at 14 knots (26 km/h; 16 mph) and an endurance of 14 days.

[1][2] The ship is equipped with Sperry Marine Visionmaster FT navigational radar operating on the X and S-bands.

[2][3] The ship was launched on 22 September 2012, christened by Denis Lebel, the Minister of Infrastructure, Communities and Intergovernmental Affairs and Minister of the Economic Development Agency of Canada for the Regions of Quebec[4] and completed in November of that year.

[1] The vessel is named after Joseph Kaeble, a winner of the Victoria Cross in the First World War.