The List of Royal Canadian Navy ships of the First World War lists the surface warships, submarines and auxiliary vessels in service during the war. It includes all commissioned, non-commissioned, loaned or hired ships. and all ships crewed by RCN personnel under the command of the RCN.

In anticipation of the British declaration of war on 4 August 1914, the RCN’s largest warship, the cruiser Niobe, was in dockyard hands at Halifax being fitted for duty (it would not emerge from drydock to begin its power trials until early September), while the navy’s other warship, Rainbow, based in the Pacific at Esquimalt, had already procee...

World War I naval ships of Canada — ships of the Royal Canadian Navy and former Canadian Government Ships.

Canada’s navy in 1914 consisted of two obsolete cruisers, HMCS Rainbow and HMCS Niobe, with fewer than 350 sailors. During the war, the navy would expand in response to the threat of German U-Boats. Canada’s obsolete navy was unprepared …

Canadian Ship Listing 1910-1930 A bit of a misnomer, this list attempts to give an accurate and in-depth look at the ships that served with the Royal Canadian Navy from its inception in 1910 until 1930.

This is a list of the ships of the WW1 convoy (October 1914), in alphabetical order (ie not the way they lined up for sailing in the actual convoy). The source is Colonel A. Fortesque Duguid's Official History of the Canadian Forces in the Great War (King's Printer, Ottawa, 1938).

2021年7月28日 · Merchant Ships Built in Canada in World War One Most recent update: July 28, 2021. If anyone has any corrections or additions to this table, please send them to [email protected]

Ships in this list also include Royal Navy vessels with RCN crews, such as TR-series minesweepers of the First World War, and aircraft carriers of the Second World War. The Canadian navy was created in 1910 as the Department of the Naval Service.

The following is a partial list of vessels that served in the Canadian Navy from 1914 to 1918.

TR-1, an Auxilliary Patrol Trawler. 53 of these ships were built by the RCN and were used as mine-sweepers. The Araguaya, a hospital ship leased by the RCN. It made 20 round trips between England and Halifax, carrying a total of 15,324 sick …