* HMCS Carleton, a Canadian Forces Naval Reserve Division in Ottawa

Nevertheless, this decade saw the RCN slowly begin its rebuilding, as Ottawa joined London, Paris, and Washington in a growing apprehension of the ramifications of Nazi Germany's rearmament and the adventurism of Italy and Japan, and procured two more destroyers from the Royal Navy: HMCS Ottawa and HMCS Restigouche.

The Royal Canadian Navy has a number of professional brass-reed bands on ships: HMCS Carleton in Ottawa, Ontario ; HMCS Chippawa in Winnipeg, Manitoba ; HMCS Discovery in Vancouver, British Columbia ; HMCS Donnacona in Montreal, Quebec ; HMCS Montcalm in Quebec, Quebec ; HMCS Star in Hamilton, Ontario ; HMCS Tecumseh in Calgary, Alberta and HMCS York in Toronto, Ontario.

Little presented himself at HMCS York in Toronto, but after he mentioned that he was a teacher of German and that he had just returned from a trip to Germany, he was immediately sent to Ottawa.

** HMCS Ottawa ( FFH 341 )

Four Canadian naval units have been named HMCS Ottawa.

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This was augmented on 24 June 1943 by a long cable between Cemaes Bay in Anglesea and Port Erin, which had the world's first submerged repeater, laid by HMCS Iris.

The supply ship HMCS Protecteur was also sent to aid the gathering coalition forces.

Brandon's Army Reserve unit is the 26th Field Artillery Regiment, Royal Canadian Artillery, and the Canadian warship HMCS Brandon was named after the city.

The early part of the war also saw HMCS Niobe actively patrolling off the coast of New York City as part of British blockading forces, but she returned to Halifax permanently in July 1915 when she was declared no longer fit for service and was converted to a depot ship.

HMCS Preserver was assigned on-scene commander of OPERATION PERSISTENCE and had authority over all aircraft and vessels within the area surrounding the crash site.

She was launched in 1956 and renamed HMCS Bonaventure.

was the first ship with the HMCS designation.

In 1954, HMCS Naden ( III ) was converted to a cadet training base and was renamed HMCS Quadra in 1956.

* The third Lysander ( J379 ) was an Algerine-class minesweeper launched in 1943 as HMCS Hespeler, renamed Cornflower in 1956, and broken up 1957.

She was launched as the River-class frigate HMCS Toronto with pennant number K538 on 25 November 1943 at Lauzon, Quebec, Canada.

* HMCS Haida ( G63 ) is a decommissioned Second World War destroyer that was open to the public.

HMCS Protector was the name of a Royal Canadian Navy base located in Sydney Harbour on Nova Scotia's Cape Breton Island.

On 22 July 1940, this facility was commissioned as HMCS Protector, taking its name from Patrol Vessel Protector ; RCN regulations at the time dictated that the name of a naval shore establishment must have been borne by a vessel afloat.

HMCS Protector was initially stationed on the Sydney waterfront and used commercial wharves and buildings along Esplanade Street where the present armouries and marine terminal are located.

After the end of the war, the RCN relinquished use of the commercial facilities on the Sydney waterfront ( eastern side of the harbour ) but maintained the use of HMCS Protector at Point Edward on the western side of the harbour until the base was closed and decommissioned in 1965.

During the 1960s, the aerodrome at the former RCAF Station Debert was attached to HMCS Shearwater as a training location for carrier landings.

She was transferred to the Royal Canadian Navy and renamed HMCS Ontario.

Built in 1956 by Saunders-Roe ( Anglesey ) Ltd .( This should not be confused with HMCS Bras d ' Or, a 240 tonne hydrofoil patrol vessel, which was the result of the tests performed by the R-103 )

HMCS Northumberland was to have been a River class frigate of the Royal Canadian Navy, but the order was cancelled in 1943.

* HMCS Charlottetown ( K244 ) ( I ), a Flower-class corvette commissioned on 13 December 1941 and torpedoed and sunk in the St. Lawrence River on 11 September 1942.

* HMCS Huron ( G24 ), a Tribal class destroyer built by Vickers-Armstrongs on the River Tyne in England

HMCS Sackville, a World War II Flower-class corvette is docked adjacent to the museum in the summer months but is not owned or administered by the museum.

Even though by 1922 the RCN had been cut back to 366 men and had paid off its last remaining cruiser HMCS Aurora, the Navy kept two destroyers donated by the Royal Navy, HMCS Patriot and HMCS Patrician, until they were replaced in the late 1920s by two other ex-Royal Navy vessels HMCS Champlain and HMCS Vancouver, and thereby maintained ships in service throughout the lean years.

* April 16-World War II: HMCS Esquimalt is sunk off Halifax by a German U-boat.

Featured events included an annual Toronto Symphony rendition of Tchaikovsky's 1812 Overture, complete with the firing of the guns from the nearby HMCS Haida, and often performances by well established acts, such as BB King, Glen Campbell, Kenny Rogers, Johnny Cash, Dizzy Gillespie, Pat Metheny and Canadian acts like Lighthouse, Bruce Cockburn, The Nylons, Luba, Men Without Hats, Doug and the Slugs, Parachute Club and Red Rider.

1939 and contained 18 merchant ships, escorted by HMCS St Laurent and HMCS Saguenay to an Atlantic rendezvous with Royal Navy ships HMS Berwick and HMS York.

A few examples of prefixes for naval ships are " USS " ( United States Ship ), " HMS " ( Her / His Majesty's Ship ), " HMCS " ( Her / His majesty's Canadian Ship ) and " HTMS " ( His Thai Majesty's Ship ), while a few examples for prefixes for merchant ships are " RMS " ( Royal Mail Ship, usually a passenger liner ), " MV " ( Motor Vessel, powered by Diesel ) and " SS " ( Steam Ship, now seldom seen, powered by steam ).

The ship's anchor from the aircraft carrier HMCS Bonaventure serves as a monument to the men and women who died while serving the Canadian Navy during Peacetime.

Eleven ships of the Royal Navy and a reserve shore establishment of the Canadian Navy have borne the name HMS / HMCS Discovery, while ships of other branches have also used the name:

The Queensland Maritime Defence Force was established in 1885, while South Australia operated a single ship, HMCS Protector.

Naval personnel from New South Wales and Victoria took part in the suppression of the Boxer Rebellion in China in 1900, while HMCS Protector was sent by South Australia but saw no action.

: HMCS Saguenay was the first Canadian naval vessel hit by torpedo in the Battle of the Atlantic, attacked 300 miles west of Ireland by a submarine while escorting Convoy HG-47.

: HMCS Margaree, recently acquired to replace HMCS Fraser, was sunk in a collision with the freighter MV Port Fairy 480 km west of Ireland.