HMCS Sackville, CSS Acadia, and the Halifax harbour ferry Craig Blake
HMCS Sackville is a Flower-class corvette that served in the Royal Canadian Navy and later served as a civilian research vessel. She is now a museum ship located in Halifax, Nova Scotia, and the last surviving Flower-class corvette.
CSS Acadia was designed to map coastal areas. The vessel is thought to be the only Canadian ship still afloat today to have served in both the First World War, when it guarded Halifax harbour, and the Second World War.
It’s also the only ship still afloat to have survived the Halifax Explosion a century ago. On that morning of Dec. 6, 1917, the Acadia was in the southeast corner of the Bedford Basin, between what’s now the MacKay Bridge and the Bedford Institute of Oceanography.
