Canadian Government Ship

The three latter acronym CGS was applied to Canadian Government Ship, prior to the creation of the Royal Canadian Navy, and the Canadian Coast Guard.^[1]^[2]


name	launched	retired	notes
CGS Aberdeen
CSS Acadia
CGS Alert
CGS C.D. Howe
CGS Graham Bell	1929	?	Served in Churchill, Manitoba until World War 2 Returned to Churchill after the war, where she was eventually wrecked
CGS Kestrel
CGS Margaret
CGS Minto
CGS Petrel	1892	1918	Transferred to the Royal Canadian Navy, during World War I, and scrapped after the war
CGS Simcoe (1909)
CGS Stanley
CGS Vigilant	1904

References

↑ Thomas E. Appleton. USQUE AD MARE: A History of the Canadian Coast Guard and Marine Services, Canadian Coast Guard, 2013-06-24. Retrieved on 2014-05-18. “The Petrel was built for Great Lakes fisheries protection. Proving too slow to cope with American fishing tugs, she was transferred to the Atlantic coast about 1904 on the grounds that she was fast enough to deal with schooners. The Vigilant took over the Great Lakes work.”
↑ Canada's Naval History, Canadian War Museum. Retrieved on 2024-01-02. “Built in the United Kingdom, the CGS (Canadian Government Ship) Canada was a modern, high-speed ship intended for east coast patrols.”