RapidFireWeb RCN Destroyers (C class): HMCS Crescent (R16) (226), HMCS Crusader (R20) The C class was a class of 32 destroyers of the Royal Navy that were launched from 1943 to 1945. The class was built in four flotillas of 8 vessels, the “Ca”, “Ch”, “Co” and “Cr” groups or sub-classes, ordered as the 11th, 12th, … Read more
RCN River class Destroyers: HMCS Fraser (DDGH), Saint-Laurent (DDGH), and Mackenzie (DDGH) (BAE Systems Image) An artist’s impression of the Canadian Surface Combatant (CSC), now designated the River-class DDGH fleet. The River-class destroyer, formerly the Canadian Surface Combatant (CSC), and Single Class Surface Combatant Project is the procurement project that will replace the Iroquois and Halifax-class … Read more
Royal Canadian Navy (RCN) 1950-1989, St. Laurent Class Destroyers (RCN Photo) Restigouche-class destroyer HMCS Kootenay (DDE 258), Replenishment oiler HMCS Provider (AOR 508), Restigouche-class destroyer HMCS Gatineau (DDE 236), Cape-class maintenance ship HMCS Cape Scott, St. Laurent-class destroyer HMCS Ottawa (DDH 229), Majestic-class aircraft carrier HMCS Bonaventure, St. Laurent-class destroyer HMCS Margaree (DDH 230), Annapolis-class … Read more
Royal Canadian Navy Destroyers (Tribal Class): HMCS Athabaskan (G07), HMCS Athabaskan II (R79) (219), HMCS Cayuga (R04) (218), HMCS Haida (G63) (215) The Tribal class destroyers were built for the RN, the RCN and the RAN and served during and after the Second World War. They were originally intended to serve as light fleet cruisers, but … Read more
Royal Canadian Navy Destroyers (Tribal Class): HMCS Huron (G24) (216), HMCS Iroquois (G89)(217), HMCS Micmac (R10) (214), HMCS Nootka (R96) (213) HMCS Huron (G24) (216) (TheEastCoastRoys Photo) HMCS Huron (G24). Built by Vickers-Armstrong, Ltd., at Newcastle-on-Tyne, she was commissioned there on 19 Jul 1943. She was assigned, like HMCS Haida, to the 3rd Destroyer Flotilla … Read more
Royal Canadian Navy (RCN) Destroyers (V class): HMCS Algonquin (R17) (224), HMCS Sioux (R64) (225) The V and W class was an amalgam of six similar classes of destroyer built for the Royal Navy under the 9th, 10th, 13th and 14th of fourteen War Emergency Programmes during the First World War and generally treated as … Read more
Harry DeWolf-class Arctic Offshore Patrol Ships (AOPS) (RCN Photo) Harry DeWolf-class Arctic Offshore Patrol Ships (AOPS) In July 2007 the federal government announced plans for acquiring six to eight icebreaking warships for the RCN. They are intended to conduct armed seaborne surveillance and sovereignty in Canada’s exclusive economic zone (EEZ), as well as on the Atlantic, … Read more
RCN Dun class tankers HMCS Dundalk, HMCS Dundurn HMCS Dundalk Z40 /501 (RCN Photo) The Dun Class tanker HMCS Dundalk was built originally for the Royal Canadian Navy to fill a Second World War need. Prior to building HMCS Dundalk, a barge and a dredge had been converted to tankers, but they were not sufficient to … Read more
RCN 1950–1989, Escort Maintenance Ships (Cape Class), Icebreaker (Wind Class), Surveyor, Diving Support Ship and Yard Diving Tenders Escort Maintenance ships (Cape Class) HMCS Cape Breton (ARE 100); HMCS Cape Scott (ARE 101) HMCS Cape Breton (ARE 100) (DND Photo via CFB Esquimalt Naval Museum) HMCS Cape Breton ARE 100 was an RCN Cape-class escort … Read more
Examination Vessel, HMCS Zoarces (FY62) (Library and Archives Canada Photo, MIKAN No. 3566757) HMCS Zoarces (FY62), Harbourcraft, 24 Oct 1940. During the Second World War, Zoarces (Z36), was an examination vessel at Saint John, New Brunswick, 27 Jun 1940 – 14 Aug 1945. (Library and Archives Canada Photo, MIKAN No. 3566759) HMCS Zoarces (FY62), Harbour … Read more
