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.

Good to see all these survivors in Canadian waters today!

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 Ron M