CSS ACADIA IN DRYDOCK

The Maritime Museum of the Atlantic.

The walkway to Halifax Shipyards dry dock.

The C.S.S. Acadia sits like a bathtub toy on the huge floating dry dock.

A closer view. The Acadia is 170 feet in length.

The facility is massive. There is more than enough room behind the Acadia for a similar size vessel.

Workmen prepare to pressure wash the ship's bottom.

The view from aft atop the dry dock port side wall.

Looking back from the bow.

Close up.

Above and below a worker removes a porthole.



A view of the keel and one of the blades of the large propeller.

Pressure washing the bottom.

Port side forward.

The pointy end.

Jan.27'th,Halifax-------------------In another diversion from things Chester but keeping with our nautical flair,we bring you some amazing pictures of how big boats are repaired and maintained. We wish to thank Steve Read,Shipskeeper C.S.S. Acadia; Eamonn Doorly,Museum Operations and Boat Builder and The Maritime Museum of The Atlantic.
About every 5 years,C.S.S. Acadia is hauled out for routine maintenance and inspections of the hull and other areas and equipment to ensure she is safely preserved as an interactive museum piece. The haul-out was a little delayed this year but nonetheless,the work of preserving this unique piece of Canada's marine heritage is underway at the Halifax Shipyards.

The Acadia is an old hydrographic surveying and oceanographic research vessel having served the Hydrographic Survey of Canada and its successor, the Canadian Hydrographic Service.

C.S.S. Acadia was in active service for over 5 decades from 1913 to 1969. She was commissioned for military service twice as H.M.C.S. Acadia for the Royal Canadian Navy during both World Wars. She is the only ship still afloat that served the Navy in both World Wars.
Acadia is also one of the only vessels still afloat known to have survived the Halifax Explosion.

C.S.S. Acadia is now a museum ship tied up at the Maritime Museum of the Atlantic. With original engines,boilers and almost original accommodations, the C.S.S. Acadia is one of the best preserved Edwardian ocean steamships afloat in the world today.

We hope you enjoy the photos of a ship out of its element. It is not everyday that you can see how this kind of work is done up close.

It is also a good illustration of Nova Scotia's shipbuilding facilities and expertise.
An important part of our heritage.

For more information on C.S.S. Acadia click here