HMCS Cedarwood
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Owner |
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Port of registry | Halifax ![]() |
Builder | Smith and Rhuland |
Launched | 1941 |
Out of service | 1948 |
Fate | Acquired by Royal Canadian Navy 1948 |
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Name | Cedarwood |
Acquired | 1946 |
Commissioned | 22 September 1948 |
Decommissioned | 9 July 1958 |
Identification | AGSC 539 |
Fate | Sold for mercantile use 1959 |
Badge | Or, parted in base wavy azure, a cedar tree eradicated, trunk and branches vert, roots of the first in base[1] |
History | |
Name | Cedarwood |
Owner |
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Port of registry | |
In service | 1959 |
Out of service | 1969 |
Fate | Broken up, 1969 |
General characteristics | |
Type | Survey ship |
Displacement | 566 long tons (575 t) |
Length | 166.0 ft (50.6 m) |
Beam | 30.5 ft (9.3 m) |
Draught | 10.0 ft (3.0 m) |
Propulsion | 1 × Fairbanks Morse diesel engine |
Speed | 11 knots (20 km/h; 13 mph) |
Complement | 23 |
HMCS Cedarwood was a surveying vessel in the
Description
Cedarwood was 166 feet (51 m) long with a beam of 30 feet 6 inches (9.30 m) and a draught of 10 feet (3.0 m). Cedarwood had a displacement of 566 tons.[2] The vessel was powered by one Fairbanks Morse diesel engine making the ship capable of 11 knots (20 km/h; 13 mph) and had a complement of 23.[3][4]
Service history
MV J.E. Kinney and RCASC General Schmidlin
Launched at Lunenburg in 1941 by Smith and Rhuland as MV J.E. Kinney, she was taken over by the Royal Canadian Army Service Corps in 1944 during the
General Schmidlin transferred to the west coast in 1946 and was used as an ammunition dumping tender by the Army.[4] General Schmidlin's purchase by the Royal Canadian Navy was requested by the Pacific Oceanographic Group who wished to use her as an oceanographic survey vessel to replace HMCS Ekholi, which was considered too small for their needs. The ship was acquired in 1946.[5][3] The purchase was approved and she was renamed Cedarwood and commissioned on 22 September 1948.[5]
Cedarwood was based in
After her naval service she was converted as a replica of the paddle steamer Beaver and then had other dummy fittings added to play the role of the steamer Commodore during the British Columbia centennial celebrations. She was sold in 1959 to Coast Cargo Services Ltd of
Citations
- ^ Arbuckle 1987, p. 23.
- ^ a b c d Macpherson & Barrie 2002, p. 286.
- ^ a b c d e Miramar Ship Index.
- ^ a b c The Crowsnest, p. 15.
- ^ a b c Campbell 2012, pp. 10–14.
References
- Arbuckle, J. Graeme (1987). Badges of the Canadian Navy. Halifax, Nova Scotia: Nimbus Publishing. ISBN 0-920852-49-1.
- Campbell, Isabel (Spring 2012). "Making a Difference in Arctic Naval Research: HMCS Cedarwood, 1948 to 1956" (PDF). Canadian Naval Review. Vol. 8, no. 1. Dalhousie University Press. ISSN 1715-0213. Archived from the original(PDF) on 4 March 2018.
- Macpherson, Ken; Barrie, Ron (2002). The Ships of Canada's Naval Forces 1910–2002 (Third ed.). St. Catharines, Ontario: Vanwell Publishing. ISBN 1-55125-072-1.
- "J.E.Kinney (5066815)". Miramar Ship Index. Retrieved 31 July 2016.
- "Small Ship—Big Job". The Crowsnest. Vol. 1, no. 6. Ottawa, Ontario: King's Printer. April 1949. ISSN 0704-7185.