Origins and Military Service
Built by the Dublin Dockyard in Dublin, Ireland, in 1913, Galiano was a steel-hulled, single-screw vessel fitted with a powerful search light, as well as electrical lighting for the whole ship, and was the sister ship of the CGS Malaspina. Galiano was named after commander Dionisio Alcalá Galiano of the Spanish navy, who had explored the Strait of Georgia in 1792, and for whom Galiano Island was named.
Galiano arrived in Esquimalt, British Columbia on 21 February 1914 to start her duties in the fisheries protection service as a patrol boat. Although not formally commissioned as naval vessels until 1917, Galiano and her sister ship Malaspina mixed civil duties with naval patrol and examination work, including minesweeping training and trials, for much of the war. Following Galiano's transfer to the Royal Canadian Navy, she was commanded by Lieutenant Robert May Pope, RNCVR.
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