CSS Acadia
CSS Acadia is a former hydrographic surveying and oceanographic research ship of the Hydrographic Survey of Canada and its successor the Canadian Hydrographic Service.
CSS Acadia preserved as a museum ship alongside the wharves of the Maritime Museum of the Atlantic in Halifax, Nova Scotia in 2007 | |
| History | |
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| Canada | |
| Name | Acadia |
| Port of registry | Ottawa |
| Builder | Swan, Hunter & Wigham Richardson, Newcastle |
| Yard number | 912 |
| Laid down | 1912 |
| Launched | May 8, 1913 |
| Commissioned | as HMCS Acadia January 16, 1917; October 2, 1939 |
| Decommissioned | March 1919, November 3, 1945 |
| In service | September 1913 – November 1969 |
| Refit | New Bridge, Pictou, Nova Scotia, 1956 |
| Homeport |
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| Identification |
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| Status | Museum ship, Halifax, 1982 |
| General characteristics | |
| Type | Hydrographic research ship/auxiliary patrol vessel |
| Tonnage | 846 GRT, 439 NRT |
| Displacement | 1,050 long tons (1,067 t) |
| Length | 181 ft 9 in (55.4 m) |
| Beam | 33.5 ft (10.2 m) |
| Draught | 19 ft (5.8 m) |
| Ice class | Ice strengthened |
| Installed power | 1,715 hp (1,279 kW) |
| Propulsion | Single shaft, 2 fire tube Scotch boilers, 1 triple expansion steam engine, |
| Speed | 12.5 knots (23.2 km/h) |
| Boats & landing craft carried | 4 survey launches, 2 lifeboats, 2 dories |
| Complement | 50 |
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National Historic Site of Canada | |
| Official name | S.S. Acadia National Historic Site of Canada |
| Designated | 1976 |
Acadia served Canada for 56 years from 1913 to 1969, charting the coastline of almost every part of Eastern Canada including pioneering surveys of Hudson Bay. She was also twice commissioned into the Royal Canadian Navy (RCN) as HMCS Acadia, the only ship still afloat to have served the RCN in both World Wars. She is also the last remaining ship afloat that was present at the 1917 Halifax Explosion. Today she is a museum ship, designated as a National Historic Site of Canada, moored in Halifax Harbour at the Maritime Museum of the Atlantic.
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