ACADIA

ACADIA

Postby MadMaxLab » Sun Nov 25, 2012 1:32 am

Built in 1913 as HMCS ACADIA by Swan Hunter & Wigham Richardson Ltd. GRT 846, length 170 feet. Used as a surveying vessel. Unaltered externally or internally, open to the public. Owned by the Maritime Museum of the Atlantic.

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At Halifax, NS, Canada - 13/6/2007
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Re: ACADIA

Postby northeast » Sun Nov 25, 2012 7:35 am

Good to see all these survivors in Canadian waters today!
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Re: ACADIA

Postby teesships » Tue Oct 27, 2020 4:29 pm

ACADIA (5001528), Canada, 846gt,
completed Swan, Hunter & Wigham.Richardson, Wallsend, 6-1913
1969: Museum ship at Dartmouth and then Halifax, Nova Scotia; still there 2006

See also: viewtopic.php?f=11&t=11567
and: http://www.tynebuiltships.co.uk/A-Ships/acadia1913.html

From my negative collection, exchanged with Billy Corking; photo taken by him
Halifax - 1 August 1991
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