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The three latter acronym CGS was applied to Canadian Government Ships, prior to the creation of the Royal Canadian Navy, and the Canadian Coast Guard.[1][2]

Some ships that bore the CGS prefix  image | name | launched | retired | notes

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| 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 II
* 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[edit]

1. ↑ 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.”
2. ↑ 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.”