Photo Gallery

"The Navy Wants Men" - a Royal Naval Canadian Volunteer Reserve recruitment campaign poster, circa 1914 - 1918.
National Archives of Canada / C-095267

HMCS Niobe entering into the Halifax graving dock.
National Defence / CN-6593

HMCS Rainbow in dry dock, Esquimalt, BC - date unknown.
Department of National Defence / E-48205

Third Stoker's Watch - HMCS NIOBE - circa 1914 - 1915.
Department of National Defence / National Archives of Canada / PA-139154

rawlers under construction for the Royal Canadian Navy at Polson Iron Works Limited - 9 April 1917 - Toronto, Ontario.
Department of National Defence / National Archives of Canada / PA-125818

HMCS Niobe ship's company mustered to watch boxing match circa 1914 / 1915.
Department of National Defence / National Archives of Canada / PA-139175

Personnel of the Womens' Royal Canadian Naval Service (W.R.C.N.S.) embarking for the United Kingdom.
Canada. Dept. of National Defence / Library and Archives Canada / PA-108181

Roller-see-saw machine built at the Montreal Neurological Institute to create seasickness artificially under controlled conditions by research workers for experimental purposes - Royal Canadian Navy Medical Research Unit.
Canada. Dept. of National Defence/Library and Archives Canada / PA-137048

Jetty 4 - Halifax Harbour during WWII.
National Defence / Copy courtesy Thomas Lynch

WRNCS officers lined up in front of a ship under construction during the S.S. Fort Esperance launch ceremony at the United Shipyards Ltc. naval shipyard.
National Film Board of Canada. Photo Library / Library and Archives Canada / e000761717

HMCS Assiniboine leaving Halifax on September 30 1940 to join convoy HX 77 as a local escort.  HMCS Saguenay following astern.
Ken Macpherson / Naval Museum of Alberta / IKMD-03420

HMCS Brantford - showing a significant buildup of ice.
Ken Macpherson / Naval Museum of Alberta / MC-2141

Depth charges - HMCS Morden.
Ken Macpherson / Naval Museum of Alberta / MC-2666

The launch of HMCS Kamsack - 5 May 1941.
Ken Macpherson / Naval Museum of Alberta / MC-2463

HMCS Port Arthur during her commissioning 26 May 1942.
Ken Macpherson / Naval Museum of Alberta / MC-2798

HMCS Ottawa lands seriously wounded survivors of torpedoed convoy ships.
Department of National Defence / N-286

The forecastle of HMCS Assiniboine showing "A" gun and the fog lookout closed up in the eyes of the ship.
Ken Macpherson / Naval Museum of Alberta / NF-402

Anti-submarine net between Fort York Redoubt and McNabs Island, Halifax NS. May 1942.
Department of National Defence / National Archives of Canada / PA-105924

The cross that marks the graves of HMCS Skenna's's dead in Fossaberg Cemetery - Fossaberg, Iceland - December 1945.
Herb Nott / Canada. Dept. of National Defence / Library and Archives Canada / PA-176659

HMCS Nootka conducting Naval Fire Support – Korea, 1951.
Canada. Dept. of National Defence / Library and Archives Canada / PA-142437

Supplies being taken aboard HMCS Athabaskan at Sasebo, Japan
during the Korean War.
Photo courtesy of Fred Fowlow

U.S.S. Buck transferring four-inch ammunition to HMCS Haida during her patrol off the east coast of Korea.
Allan F. Jones / Canada. Dept. of National Defence / Library and Archives Canada / PA-138197

Ship Formation in the Gulf of Oman of the Canadian Navy. From right to left HMCS Algonquin, HMCS Protecteur, and HMCS St-Johns.  The formation took place during a (RAS) Replenishment at sea, followed by maneuvers.
MCpl Michel Durand / 54845

Members of HMCS Regina's naval boarding party make their way in a Rigid Hull Inflatable Boat (RHIB), to a suspect vessel in the Gulf of Oman.
Mcpl Frank Hudec / 55291

HMCS Corner Brook on arctic patrol during OP Nanook sails past an Iceberg.
MCpl Blake Rodgers / 54871

A CH-124 Sea King helicopter hoists a person from Patrol Craft Training (PCT) Wolf off the coastal approaches to Vancouver Harbour Feb. 5. The "hoistex" was the first for the Orca-class, the Canadian Navy's newest class of ship.
MS Derek Dawson / 54907

Master Seaman Rob Brabant, guides a belt of 20 mm Tungsten ammunition as it is fed into HMCS Ottawa's close in weapon system (CIWS).
Cpl Charles Barber / 55253