CSS Acadia

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CSS Acadia preserved as a museum ship alongside the wharves of the Maritime Museum of the Atlantic in Halifax, Nova Scotia in 2007
History
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	Halifax, Nova Scotia Pictou, Nova Scotia
Identification	UK official number 133535 code letters JCMD (until 1933) call sign CGFS (1930 onward)
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
Armament	(Wartime) 1 × QF 4 in (102 mm) Mk IV gun (forward) 1 × QF 12-pounder (76 mm) gun (aft) 8 depth charges
National Historic Site of Canada
Official name	S.S. Acadia National Historic Site of Canada
Designated	1976

CSS Acadia is a former hydrographic surveying and oceanographic research ship of the Hydrographic Survey of Canada and its successor the Canadian Hydrographic Service.

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 (Royal Canadian Navy) in both World Wars. The ship is also the last remaining ship afloat that was present at the 1917 Halifax Explosion. Today, the ship is a museum ship, designated as a National Historic Site of Canada, moored in Halifax Harbour at the Maritime Museum of the Atlantic.^[1]