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CGS ''Canada'' was a Canadian Government Ship that served as a patrol ship in the Fisheries Protection Service of Canada, an enforcement agency that was part of the Department of Marine and Fisheries. She is considered to the nucleus of the Royal Canadian Navy for her role in training Canadian naval officers and asserting Canadian sovereignty. ''Canada'' saw service in the First World War and was commissioned into the Royal Canadian Navy as HMCS ''Canada'' during that conflict. Following the war, the vessel was sold for commercial use and renamed MV ''Queen of Nassau''. On the verge of being sold again, the ship sank in Straits of Florida on 2 July 1926. ==Civilian service== CGS ''Canada'' was launched at the Vickers, Sons & Maxim shipyard in Barrow-in-Furness, England in 1904. Upon delivery, ''Canada'' became the flagship for the Fisheries Protection Service of Canada and was instrumental in detaining numerous vessels illegally fishing in Canadian territorial waters. She was equipped with what was then the smallest Marconi wireless telegraph in the world. She saw extensive use as a training vessel for crew who served throughout the Fisheries Protection Service of Canada squadron. She also saw use as the first ship to train fishermen to become members of Canada's Naval Militia, before the existence of a Canadian naval service. Her participation in Royal Navy fleet exercises in 1905 is considered by some to be the beginnings of Canada's naval activity.〔 (Internet Archive mirror )〕 Until 1910, Canada did not have a naval service and relied upon the Royal Navy for military force on the high seas. However, British military forces had withdrawn from Canada in 1906, therefore Canadian politicians began to call for the establishment of a domestic naval service. On 29 March 1909, a resolution was passed in Canada's House of Commons calling for the establishment of a Canadian Naval Service. The resolution was not successful; however, on 12 January 1910, the government of Prime Minister Sir Wilfrid Laurier took the resolution and introduced it as the ''Naval Service Bill''. After third reading, the bill received Royal Assent on 4 May 1910, and became the ''Naval Service Act'', administered by the Minister of Marine and Fisheries at the time. The official title of the navy was the Naval Service of Canada (also informally the Canadian Naval Forces). The first Director of the Naval Service of Canada was Rear-Admiral Charles Kingsmill (Royal Navy, retired), who was previously in charge of the Marine Service of the Department of Marine and Fisheries, which included the Fisheries Protection Service of Canada. Several vessels were acquired from the Royal Navy and the Naval Service of Canada changed its name to Royal Canadian Navy on 30 January 1911, but it was not until 29 August that the use of "Royal" Canadian Navy was permitted by King George V. Meanwhile, following passage of the Naval Service Bill in the spring of 1910 and the pending acquisition of the two cruisers and from the British Admiralty, the federal government sought to begin training officers and crew for naval service. Without a naval academy, Canada looked to the Fisheries Protection Service of Canada and its method of training officers and crew aboard CGS ''Canada''. Thus CGS ''Canada'' became Canada's first naval training ship and was, as stated by naval historians in Canada, the “Flagship of the embryonic Canadian Navy at the time, symbolic of the evolution of Canada from a dominion within the British Empire to a sovereign nation.”〔Macpherson and Burgess, 1983〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「HMCS Canada」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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