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Dominion Government Ship

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The designation Dominion Government Ship (DGS) was applied to ships operated by the Government of Canada in its early decades when it was more widely known by the deprecated name Dominion of Canada. The later designation, Canadian Government Ship, was used as early as the turn of the 20th century.

Vessels designated DGS included:
image name commissioned retired notes
DGS Kestrel
DGS Malaspina 1913 1946
DGS Mastodon 1911 1934 retired in 1934, taken into the Royal Canadian Navy in World War II, and converted to a coastal oil tanker
DGS Naden 1913 1922
DGS Neptune employed in 1903–1904, for an exploratory expedition to Canada's Arctic Archipelago[1][2]
DGS Quadra 1891 operated on the west coast

References

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  1. ^ A.P. Low (1904). "Report on the Dominion Government Expedition to Hudson Bay and the Arctic Islands on board the D.G.S. Neptune, 1903-1904". Government of Canada. Retrieved 2020-08-26.
  2. ^ W. Gillies Ross (June 1976). "Canadian Sovereignty in the Arctic: The "Neptune" Expedition of 1903-04" (PDF). Arctic. Vol. 29, no. 2. Arctic Institute of North America. pp. 87–104. JSTOR 40509260. Retrieved 2020-08-26. The Neptune herself was a Newfoundland sealer of 465 tons, wooden-hulled but strengthened for ice navigation.