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|Ship country={{nowrap|Dominion of [[Canada]]}}
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|Ship name=''Aberdeen''
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|Ship registry=[[Ottawa, Ontario]]
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|Ship homeport=[[Halifax Regional Municipality|Halifax, Nova Scotia]]<ref>[http://museum.gov.ns.ca/mma/wrecks/wrecks/shipwrecks.asp?ID=53] {{dead link}}</ref> <br> [[Quebec, QC]]<ref name=Ap1>{{cite web|url=http://www.ccg-gcc.gc.ca/eng/CCG/USQUE_Paisley |title=A History of the Canadian Coast Guard and Marine Services |last=Appleton |publisher=Canadian Coast Guard |first=Thomas E. |date=24 June 2013 |accessdate=20 November 2014}}</ref>
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|Ship type= [[Buoy tender|Lighthouse supply and buoy tender]]
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'''CGS ''Aberdeen''''' was a [[Canadian Government Ship]] launched in 1894, which served as a [[Buoy tender|Lighthouse supply and buoy vessel]].<ref name=CcgShips1850-1967>{{cite news | url=http://www.ccg-gcc.gc.ca/eng/CCG/USQUE_Ship_Details | title=Ships of the CCG 1850-1967 | date=31 March 2008 | author= | publisher=[[Canadian Coast Guard]] |archiveurl=http://www.webcitation.org/query?url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.ccg-gcc.gc.ca%2Feng%2FCCG%2FUSQUE_Ship_Details&date=2009-09-13 | archivedate=13 September 2009}}</ref> Originally flush-decked and able to set [[Fore-and-aft_rig|fore and aft]] sail, she was later rebuilt with a high foc'sle and a heavy derrick forward. After serving in the [[Atlantic Ocean]], the [[Gulf of Saint Lawrence]], and the [[Saint Lawrence River]], she was wrecked off [[Seal Island, Nova Scotia]] in October 1923.<ref>Charles D. Maginley, and Bernard Collin, ''The Ships of Canada's Marine Services'', (St. Catharines, Ontario: Vanwell Publishing, 2001), p. 49. ISBN 1-55125-070-5</ref><ref name=Ap1/>

==Loss==
On Saturday, October 13, 1923, ''Aberdeen'' sailed from [[Yarmouth, Nova Scotia|Yarmouth]] in thick fog on an inspection tour. She carried a crew of forty-five men under the command of Captain Loran B. Kinney, along with Marine Agent J. C. Chesley, Engineer P. F. Morrison, and John Kelley, the Superintendent of Lighthouses, aboard.<ref name="coastalradio">{{Cite web |url= http://www.coastalradio.org.uk/spud/spud/spud06.pdf
 |title=Loss of the CGS ''Aberdeen''   |work=coastalradio.org.uk |accessdate=13 September 2010}}</ref>

At about 13:00 ''Aberdeen'' was approaching the Black Ledge, about {{convert|1.25|m|abbr=on}} from [[Seal Island, Nova Scotia|Seal Island]], when she struck the wreck of the trawler ''Snipe'', which had sunk the previous June. The collision ripped a {{convert|25|ft|m|adj=mid|-long}} hole in her side. The ship filled and settled on the ledge within 15 minutes. ''Aberdeen'' sent a [[Mayday (distress signal)|mayday]] signal by radio, and her sister ship ''Laurentian'' sailed from Saint John immediately, along with ''Acadia'' from Halifax, and ''Arleux'' from Briar Island.<ref name="coastalradio"/>

The ship had about 500 bags of [[cement]] destined for the [[Cape Sable Island|Cape Sable]] Light aboard, and also drums of [[calcium carbide]], that caused much concern (as it reacts with water to form the [[Flammability|flammable]] gas [[acetylene]]). About 25 of the crew were sent to the Seal Island Light Station in the ship's boats, while the remainder stayed aboard to assist in salvaging as much of the wreck as they could.<ref name="coastalradio"/>

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