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 | |
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| Canada | |
| Name | Acadia |
| Namesake | Acadia |
| Port of registry | Ottawa |
| Builder | Swan, Hunter & Wigham Richardson, Newcastle |
| Yard number | 912 |
| Laid down | 1912 |
| Launched | 8 May 1913 |
| In service | September 1913 |
| Out of service | November 1969 |
| Identification |
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| Status | Museum ship, Halifax, 1982 |
| Canada | |
| Name | Acadia |
| Commissioned | 16 January 1917 |
| Decommissioned | March 1919 |
| Recommissioned | 2 October 1939 |
| Decommissioned | 3 November 1945 |
| Identification | Pennant number: Z00 |
| General characteristics | |
| Type | Hydrographic research ship/auxiliary patrol vessel |
| Tonnage | 846 GRT, 439 NRT |
| Displacement | 1,050 long tons (1,070 t) |
| Length | 181 ft 9 in (55.40 m) |
| Beam | 33.5 ft (10.2 m) |
| Draught | 19 ft (5.8 m) |
| Ice class | Ice strengthened |
| Installed power | 1,715 shp (1,279 kW) |
| Propulsion | Single shaft, 2 × Scotch boilers, 1 triple expansion steam engine, |
| Speed | 14 knots (26 km/h; 16 mph) |
| Complement | 60 |
| Armament |
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| Official name | S.S. Acadia National Historic Site of Canada |
| Designated | 1976 |
CSS Acadia is a former hydrographic and oceanographic research ship of the Hydrographic Survey of Canada and its successor, the Canadian Hydrographic Service. Acadia 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. The ship is also the last remaining ship afloat that was present at the 1917 Halifax Explosion. The ship is now a museum ship, designated as a National Historic Site of Canada, moored in Halifax Harbour at the Maritime Museum of the Atlantic.