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	1950	1969	Brought supplies to Arctic settlements during the summer, served as an icebreaker in the Gulf of St Lawrence during the winter Transferred to the newly created Canadian Coast Guard
CGS Canada	1904	1919	Served as a Fishery Protection vessel Transferred to the Royal Canadian Navy during World War I Sold in 1919
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	1899	Initially served as a Fishery Protection vessel on the west coast Transferred to the newly formed Royal Canadian Navy in 1910 Sold in 1912
CGS Margaret	1914		Built for the Customs Preventive Service, but pressed into service in the Royal Canadian Navy during World War I Returned to the Customs service after the war Briefly transferred to the RCMP in 1932, then sold to the Brazilian Navy
CGS Minto	1899	1915	Served as an icebreaker around Prince Edward Island Sold to Imperial Russia
CGS Petrel	1892	1918	Transferred to the Royal Canadian Navy, during World War I, and scrapped after the war
CGS Simcoe (1909)	1909	1917	44 people lost their lives when she foundered
CGS Stanley	1888	1935	Served as an icebreaker and a ferry on the east coast
CGS Vigilant	1904	?	Served as a Fisheries Protection vessel on the Great Lakes

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.”