S.S. Acadia

S.S. Acadia is a National Historic Site of Canada in Halifax, Nova Scotia.

Nova Scotia · 1675 Lower Water Street, Halifax, Nova Scotia · location approximate

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C.S.S. ACADIA This vessel, the second Canadian government ship to bear the name, was designed in Canada, for the Hydrographic Survey and built at Newcastle-on-Tyne, England. Launched in May 1913, for over half a century ACADIA played a leading role in the charting of Hudson Bay and Strait, the Labrador coast, and the Gulf of St. Lawrence, and pioneered oceanography to Canadian waters. During both world wars, as H.M.C.S. ACADIA, she served as an armed patrol vessel and after 1941, as a training ship C.S.S. ACADIA was finally retired from service to November 1969.

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Conçu au Canada en vue de l'hydrographie du Territoire, ce navire du gouvernement canadien, le second de ce nom, a été construit à Newcastle-on-Tyne (Angleterre). Lancé en mai 1913, l'ACADIA a joué un grand rôle, pendant plus d'un demi siècle, dans l'établissement des cartes marines du détroit et de la baie d'Hudson, de la côte du Labrador et du golfe Saint-Laurent. Le Canada s'est ainsi initié à l'océanographie. Au cours des deux guerres mondiales, rebaptisé H.M.C.S. ACADIA, il a servi de patrouilleur armé puis, après 1941, de navire-école. L'ACADIA a été mis hors de service en novembre 1969.

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S.S. Acadia

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