Halifax NS Boats
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Nantucket Clipper (2003), later renamed Spirit of Glacier Bay
Spirit of Glacier Bay, formerly Spirit of Nantucket and Nantucket
Clipper, is a small cruise ship that was owned and operated by Cruise
West until 2010. She is 207 feet long, carries up to 102 passengers
and approximately 28 crew. It was built in 1984 at Jeffersonville,
Indiana for Clipper Cruise Lines by Jeffboat Corporation, and operated
on the East Coast of North America, from the Caribbean Sea to the
Canadian Maritimes and into the Great Lakes as far as Chicago. In
2006, Nantucket Clipper, along with fleet-mate Yorktown Clipper, was
purchased by Seattle-based Cruise West. Nantucket Clipper was renamed
Spirit of Nantucket at this time. In 2006 and 2007 she continued
operating on her usual routes.
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CSS Acadia is a former hydrographic surveying and
oceanographic research ship of the Hydrographic Survey of Canada and
its successor the Canadian Hydrographic Service.
Acadia served Canada for more than five decades from
1913–1969, charting the coastline of almost every part of Eastern
Canada including pioneering surveys of Hudson Bay. She was also twice
commissioned into the Royal Canadian Navy as HMCS Acadia, the
only ship still afloat to have served the RCN in both World Wars.
Today she is a museum ship, designated as a National Historic Site of
Canada, moored in Halifax Harbour at the Maritime Museum of the
Atlantic.
Retaining her original engines, boilers and little-changed
accommodations, she is one of the best preserved Edwardian ocean
steamships in the world and a renowned example of Canada's earliest
scientific prowess in the fields of hydrography and oceanography.
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CSS Acadia
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Theodore Too, used for harbour tours
It is a large-scale imitation tugboat built in
Dayspring, Nova Scotia in 2000 based on the fictional television
tugboat character Theodore Tugboat.
It was commissioned by Cochran Entertainment, Inc.,[2] the
now-defunct production company. Andrew Cochran, the creator of
Theodore Tugboat,[1][5] had told his son bedtime stories about the
boats in the big harbour and how they interacted with everyone. This
later became the basis for the TV series.
After Cochran Entertainment went out of business, the boat was
purchased by a Halifax tour boat company, Murphys on the Water. The
vessel provides tours of Halifax Harbour in the summer, operating from
the Cable Wharf in downtown Halifax.
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Theodore Too
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Tall Ship Silva, used for tours
The Tall Ship Silva is a 130 ft Schooner built to the highest
safety standards. Equipped with a finely appointed indoor banquet
room, fully licensed pub, washrooms and and on-deck lounge, the ship
accommodates from 10 up to 150 guests. Be entertained by our modern
sound system, professional DJ or live musicians, and stay comfortable
in rain or shine under awnings and indoor/outdoor seating.
Tall Ship Silva was built in Karlstad, Sweden in 1939 as a 130'
three masted steel schooner. During the first two decades of her life,
she was traded with general cargo under sail and motor in Western
Europe. In the 1960's Silva was refitted as a bulk freighter, having
her sailing rig removed. Silva continued coastal trading n Sweden
until 1994. In the summer of 2001, she was towed to North America and
restored.
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Seagull and Pleasure craft "Who Cares".
Vessel WHO CARES (IMO: N/A, MMSI: 366762070) is a pleasure
craft and currently sailing under the flag of USA. WHO CARES has 35m
length overall and beam of 8m.
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Two tour boats head out
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Sailboat about to enter the fog bank
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Sailboat about to enter the fog bank
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Sailboat about to enter the fog bank
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