Ship Details

Acadia (C.G.S.)

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Photo Credit: John Henderson

 
 
Registry #1 133535 (Canada) Registry #2 Z.00 (RCN) Registry #3
IMO# MMSI# VRN#
 
Name 1 1913 Acadia (D.G.S.) Name 6
Name 2 (nk) Acadia (H.M.C.S.) Name 7
Name 3 (nk) Acadia (C.G.S.) Name 8
Name 4 (nk) Acadia (H.M.C.S.) Name 9
Name 5 Name 10
 
Year Built 1913 Place Newcastle-on-Tyne Area Lancs Country UK
 
Designer (nk) Measurement (imp) 170' x 33.5' x 19'
Builder Swan, Hunter & Wigham Richardson Ltd. Measurement (metric) ?m x ?m x ?m
Hull Steel Displacement
Gross Tonnage 1350 Type 1 Research vessel, hydrographic survey
Registered Tonnage 1050 Type 2 Patrol vessel
Engine 1200hp steam engine (12 kts) Engine Manufacture (nk)
Repower Propulsion Screw
Rebuilds Call Sign
Pendant  # Z.00 Masters
 
Owner(s)
In 1979 she was owned by The Minister of the Environment, Ottawa ON.
 
Fate Museum collection Date 1980-00-00
 
Named Features
Significance of Name
 
Anecdotes
This vessel was a patrol vessel in the RCN 1917-19. This vessel carried out anti-submarine patrols in the Bay of Fundy, off the south shore of Nova Scotia and in the Gulf of St. Lawrence. Between the wars this vessel was a hydrographic survey ship. this vessel was commissioned into the RCN again 1939-45. This vessel served as a training vessel for H.M.C.S. Stadacona. This vessel patrolled the approaches to Haliax 1940-41. Afterwards this vessel was a a training vessel for A/A and DEMS gunners. In 1944-45 this vessel was a gunnery training tender to Cornwallis. In 1945 this vesselresumed her role as hydrographic survey vessel. this vessel was laid up at the Bedford Institute of Oceanography in Dartmouth NS. In 1980 to the present (2004) this vessel became a floating museum ship at the Maritime Museum of the Atlantic in Halifax NS.
 
References
Jane's Fighting Ships; Government of Canada The Canadian Navy List Ottawa ON; Freeman, David J. (2000); Macpherson, K. & J. Burgess (1981)
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