&sq=Facebook&lang=en&file=File:CGS_Arctic_at_anchor_in_Pond_Inlet,_1923.jpg) CGS Arctic at anchor at Pond Inlet in 1923
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| History | |
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 Germany | |
| Name | Gauss |
| Namesake | Carl Friedrich Gauss |
| Builder | Howaldtswerke-Deutsche Werft, Kiel |
| Cost | 500,000 marks |
| Launched | 2 April 1901 |
| In service | 1901 |
| Out of service | 1903 |
| Fate | Sold to Canada, 1904 |
 Canada | |
| Name | Arctic |
| Acquired | by purchase, 1904 |
| In service | 1904 |
| Out of service | 1925 |
| Fate | Abandoned, 1925 |
| General characteristics | |
| Type | Polar exploration vessel |
| Tonnage | 762 GRT |
| Displacement | 1,442 long tons (1,465 t) |
| Length | 46 m (150 ft 11 in) |
| Beam | 11 m (36 ft 1 in) |
| Draught | 4.8 m (15 ft 9 in) |
| Ice class | A1 |
| Propulsion | 1 × 325 hp (242 kW) auxiliary triple expansion steam engine, single screw |
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| Speed | 7 knots (13 km/h; 8.1 mph) |
| Capacity | 700 tons of stores |
| Crew | 30 |
Gauss was a ship built in Germany specially for polar exploration, named after the mathematician and physical scientist Carl Friedrich Gauss. Purchased by Canada in 1904, the vessel was renamed CGS Arctic. As Arctic, the vessel made annual trips to the Canadian Arctic until 1925. The ship's fate is disputed among the sources, but all claim that by the mid-1920s, the vessel was out of service.