Canadian Naval News Past, Present & Future
By Gordon Angus Mackinlay Naval Historical Society of Australia HMS Nabob started life in Tacoma, Washington shipyard as a merchant vessel, converted to a Lease-Lend escort carrier, and the first…
By Roger Buxton Naval Historical Society of Australia In the late northern summer and autumn of 1939 HMAS Perth and the Canadian West Coast destroyers HMC Ships Fraser, Ottawa, Restigouche…
Naval officers from around the world participated in the Submarine Officer Continuation Training (SOCT) in Halifax, NS from the 5th to 18th of September. Canada regularly organizes this type of…
Canada announced October 10th the award of a $4.9 million contract to Resolve Marine to remove oil from historic shipwreck USAT Brigadier General M.G. Zalinski, which sunk in Grenville Channel…
HMCS Ottawa deployed from Esquimalt October 16, 2024 for Asian waters. HMCS Ottawa will sail across the Pacific Ocean while deployed on Operations HORIZON and NEON. Operation HORIZON is Canada’s…
The U.S. Navy, U.S. Marine Corps, Armed Forces of the Philippines, and allied forces commenced the eighth iteration of Exercise Sama Sama in the vicinity of Subic Bay, Philippines, marking…
The America-class amphibious assault ship USS Tripoli (LHA 7); San Antonio-class amphibious transport dock ship USS Somerset (LPD 25) and the Unmanned Surface Vessel Ranger (OUSV 3) arrived in San…
On October 2, the Minister of Housing, Infrastructure and Communities, accompanied by the Minister of Public Services and Procurement Canada, with NATO Defence Innovation Accelerator for the North Atlantic (DIANA)…
The first case of leprosy in New Brunswick, on the east coast of Canada, was noted in 1815. In 1842, reports began to circulate that leprosy was making serious inroads…
HMCS Vancouver conducted an ammunition reload September 23 in Broome, Australia. This could possibly be the first time a Canadian warship has loaded ammunition in this fellow Commonwealth nation. Ammunition…