HMCS Sackville made her return to the waterfront this afternoon, ting up around 1pm at the museum wharfs.
The Ship will be open Daily 10am-4:45 untill she returns to the dockyard in the fall.
HMCS Sackville Returns
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HMCS Sackville’s restoration in 1984.
HMCS Sackville reemerged this summer after extensive steel work to reinforce her hull. Corvettes were built quickly and cheaply in the second world war, and were built to last the war. Sackville is the last of her type in the world.
After the war, Sackville become AGOR 113, a navy survey vessel. She was eventually retired, and in 1984 began being restored to her wartime appearance. The Following photos are part of the Maritime Museum of the Atlantic’s Slide Collection, and show some of that early restoration work.
Bob Pearson maintains an excellent website detailing the Flower Class Corvette, including instructions on Canadianizing the Revel HMCS Snowberry Kit.
Thanks to Roger Marsters, Currator at the NS MMA for the research assistance.
Launch day at NS MMA
Today was the annual launch day at the Maritime Museum. This is when a crane comes in to place all the small craft in the water.
(below) the crane is lifting Whim’s mast into place.
Dorothea in June 2014 Wooden Boat
During the 2012/2013 Winter, the Nova Scotia Sea School refurbished thier boat Dorothea at the Maritime Museum of the Atlantic. The progress was followed in a series of posts you can follow.
One of my photos Can be found in the Launchings Section of the June 2014 Wooden Boat Magazine. (left)
Row the South Shore
The ‘Row the South Shore’ project involves building and rowing a traditional dory over
150 nautical miles from Halifax to the Lahave River and back. The Project was concieved and is being executed by Peter L’Esperance. The boat is currently under construction at the Maritime Museum of the Atlantic and will be launchedJuly 1st , 2013. The rowing passage will take place between August 1st and 17th , 2013.
The principle aim of this project is to promote and facilitate conservation in Nova Scotia. However, a secondary aim is to provide businesses and individuals with an opportunity to offset the negative environmental impacts associated with their activities. Prior to departure, Peter will seek sponsors and donate any funds raised to the Nova Scotia Nature Trust, an organization which works on a variety of fronts to preserve areas of strategic ecological importance across Nova Scotia. Following the completion of the trip, the newly constructed dory will be sold and the proceeds donated to the Nature Trust.
The Vesssel itself is A Swampscot Dory. You can find out more about the project on the Row the South Shore Facebook Page.
Happy 100th Acadia
Today marks the 100th anivarsary of the Launching of the CSS Acadia. The Acadia is a former hydrographic Canadian Survey ship of the Canadian Government, that is now part of the collection of the Maritime Museaum of the Atlantic.
Acadia served Canada for more than five decades from 1913–1969, 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 as HMCS Acadia, during the 2 world wars.
Retaining her original engines, boilers and little-changed accommodations, she is one of the best preserved Edwardian ocean steamships in the world and a renowned example of Canada’s earliest scientific prowess in the fields of hydrography and oceanography.
