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Model of Fisheries Protection Service patrol ship CGS Canada, later Royal Canadian Navy patrol ship HMCS Canada, at the Canadian War Museum in Ottawa. The 566-ton ship was built by the Vickers/Maxim shipyard in Barrow-in-Furness, England in 1904 and began working with the Royal Navy in the Caribbean as early as 1905. She served as a naval trainer until World War I, when she was armed up and used mostly as an escort ship. She survived the Halifax explosion of 1917 and was decommissioned in 1919 once the war ended and most countries disarmed. Sold to American tycoon Baron Gift Collier, she was renamed SS Queen of Nassau and converted to an uncomfortable passenger ship that sank off the Florida Keys in 1926 ... an undignified end for the first Canadian warship, but at least the wreck is intact and protected by the American NOAA as part of the Florida Keys National Marine Sanctuary.

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Model of Fisheries Protection Service patrol ship CGS Canada, later Royal Canadian Navy patrol ship HMCS Canada, at the Canadian War Museum in Ottawa. The 566-ton ship was built by the Vickers/Maxim shipyard in Barrow-in-Furness, England in 1904 and began working with the Royal Navy in the Caribbean as early as 1905. She served as a naval trainer until World War I, when she was armed up and used mostly as an escort ship. She survived the Halifax explosion of 1917 and was decommissioned in 1919 once the war ended and most countries disarmed. Sold to American tycoon Baron Gift Collier, she was renamed SS Queen of Nassau and converted to an uncomfortable passenger ship that sank off the Florida Keys in 1926 ... an undignified end for the first Canadian warship, but at least the wreck is intact and protected by the American NOAA as part of the Florida Keys National Marine Sanctuary.