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Four Canadian naval units have been named HMCS Ottawa.
HMCS Ontario can refer to several ships:
Several Canadian naval units have been named HMCS Algonquin.
Several Canadian naval units have been named HMCS Huron.
Several Canadian naval units have been named HMCS Iroquois.
Several Canadian naval units have been named HMCS Quebec.
HMCS Skeena was a River-class destroyer that served in the Royal Canadian Navy (RCN) from 1931–1944. She was similar to the Royal Navy's A class and wore initially the pennant D59, changed in 1940 to I59.
Several Canadian naval units have been named HMCS Chaudiere.
Vice Admiral Henry George "Harry" DeWolf was a Canadian naval officer who was famous as the first commander of HMCS Haida during the Second World War.
Several Canadian naval units have been named HMCS Kootenay.
HMCS Skeena was a St. Laurent-class destroyer that served in the Royal Canadian Navy and later the Canadian Forces from 1957–1993. Skeena was constructed as a destroyer escort and was converted in the 1960s to a helicopter-carrying destroyer. In 1972, the ship was designated a French Language Unit, the second in Canadian service. Discarded in 1994, the ship was broken up in India.
HMCS Qu'Appelle can refer to several different things named after the Qu'Appelle River in Saskatchewan:
Two Canadian naval units have been named HMCS Assiniboine.
Several Canadian naval units have been named HMCS Restigouche.
Several Canadian naval units have been named HMCS St. Laurent.
Several Canadian naval units have been named HMCS Saskatchewan.
The River class was a class of fourteen destroyers of the Royal Canadian Navy (RCN) that served before and during the Second World War. They were named after Canadian rivers.
Several Canadian naval units have been named HMCS Columbia.
Vice-Admiral Harold Taylor Wood Grant was a Canadian naval officer and a post-war Chief of the Naval Staff. The son of Lieutenant Governor of Nova Scotia, MacCallum Grant, Harold Grant entered the Royal Canadian Navy as a cadet in 1914. He spent most of the First World War in training until 1917, when he became a midshipman aboard a British Royal Navy ship. Considered an above average officer, he was earmarked for early promotion during the interwar period and by 1938, commanded the destroyer HMCS Skeena.
The Battle of Pierres Noires was a naval action that occurred during the Allied Operation Dredger, involving several Royal Canadian Navy (RCN) destroyers and a German Kriegsmarine U-boat with escorts near Brest, France. The RCN force managed to sink or damage some of the escorts on the surface, but the U-boat was able to escape.
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