CSS Acadia

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
NameAcadia
Port of registryOttawa
BuilderSwan, Hunter & Wigham Richardson, Newcastle
Yard number912
Laid down1912
LaunchedMay 8, 1913
Commissionedas HMCS Acadia January 16, 1917; October 2, 1939
DecommissionedMarch 1919, November 3, 1945
In serviceSeptember 1913 – November 1969
RefitNew Bridge, Pictou, Nova Scotia, 1956
Homeport
  • Halifax, Nova Scotia
  • Pictou, Nova Scotia
Identification
StatusMuseum ship, Halifax, 1982
General characteristics
TypeHydrographic research ship/auxiliary patrol vessel
Tonnage846 GRT, 439 NRT
Displacement1,050 long tons (1,067 t)
Length181 ft 9 in (55.4 m)
Beam33.5 ft (10.2 m)
Draught19 ft (5.8 m)
Ice classIce strengthened
Installed power1,715 hp (1,279 kW)
PropulsionSingle shaft, 2 fire tube Scotch boilers, 1 triple expansion steam engine,
Speed12.5 knots (23.2 km/h)
Boats & landing
craft carried
4 survey launches, 2 lifeboats, 2 dories
Complement50
Armament
Official nameS.S. Acadia National Historic Site of Canada
Designated1976

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 Royal Canadian Navy 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]

  1. ^ S.S. Acadia. Canadian Register of Historic Places. Retrieved 26 August 2012.