HMCS Stadacona
Stadacona in Royal Canadian Navy service
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| Name: | Columbia |
| Builder: | Crescent Shipyard, Elizabeth |
| Launched: | 1899 |
| Fate: | Acquired by Royal Canadian Navy, 1915 |
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| Name: | Stadacona |
| Namesake: | Stadacona |
| Acquired: | 1915 |
| Commissioned: | 13 August 1915 |
| Decommissioned: | 31 March 1920 |
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| Type: | Armed yacht |
| Displacement: | 682 long tons (693 t) |
| Length: | 196.4 ft (59.9 m) |
| Beam: | 33.5 ft (10.2 m) |
| Draught: | 11 ft (3.4 m) |
| Speed: | 12 knots (22 km/h) |
| Complement: | 62 |
| Armament: | 1 x 4 in (102 mm) gun |
HMCS Stadacona was a commissioned patrol boat of the Royal Canadian Navy (RCN) that served in the First World War and postwar until 1920. Prior to entering service with the RCN, the vessel was the private yacht Columbia. Following the war, Stadacona performed hydrographic surveys. The vessel was sold for commercial use in 1920 and was burned for salvage in 1948. Stadacona is a historic name associated with Canada, the voyages Jacques Cartier, the colony of Samuel de Champlain, and Quebec City.
The vessel was built by Crescent Shipyard, Elizabeth, New Jersey as the American steam yacht Columbia, the second yacht of that name built for J. Harvey Ladew of New York, and modeled on the United States Coast Survey steamer Pathfinder that had been built in the same yard. Possible conversion into a naval auxiliary was a part of the design with coal fired triple expansion steam engines, capable of a guaranteed 14 knots (16 mph; 26 km/h) allowing for steaming range of 7,000 miles (11,265 km) and a sail plan allowing even longer ranges.
She was acquired by Aemilius Jarvis on behalf of the RCN in July 1915 along with the yacht Waterus from the New York shipbrokers Cox and Stevens for $155,000. (The sales were blocked by the then-neutral U.S. government, and prolific champion yachtsman Commodore Jarvis subsequently had to pirate the ships from the U.S. to Canada.) Columbia was renamed Stadacona which, prior to the arrival of the French, the location that would become Quebec City was the home of a small Iroquois village called "Stadacona", after which the ship is named.
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