Skip all navigation links
Skip main-navigation links
Department of National Defence - Government of Canada
Français Contact Us Help Search Canada Site
Navy Home News & Information The Fleet Operations & Exercises Defence Site
Youth Section Navy Life & Careers Image & Video Gallery Strategic Issues Media & Links
Canadian Navy











Read Crowsnest
This new publication from the Chief of the Maritime Staff is aimed at all those who would like a better understanding of our navy.
Crowsnest
Canadian Navy
NAVY JOBS

To see the world... to meet and make friends for life... to learn about yourself and your country... to master a sought-after, high-tech trade... to help people out in distant parts of the world...

THE FLEET

The fleet is, ton for ton, as modern and capable as any fleet in the world. Our destroyers, frigates, coastal patrol vessels, submarines and supply ships are divided more or less evenly between the Atlantic and the Pacific coasts. Individual ships serve all over the world with US Battle Groups or Multinational Interdiction Forces.

YOUTH SECTION

New Feature: 3D paper ship models!

Learn more about Canada's Navy here - like how sailors communicate using codes, and test your Navy knowledge with our "You Don't Know Our Jack" trivia game. But most of all, just enjoy the site. And tell a landlubber about it!

FEATURE STORIES


Mission important to security and stability of Persian Gulf region

HMCS Charlottetown departed her home port of Halifax on November 1 to begin a six-month tour as part of Operation ALTAIR, Canada’s maritime contribution to the continuing U.S.-led campaign against terrorism...




HMCS Calgary fires new missiles

On November 1, 2007, HMCS Calgary became the first Canadian ship from the West Coast fleet to fire the new Evolved Sea Sparrow Missile (ESSM)...




Successful counter-drug operation nets prestigious award

Operation CHABANEL, an RCMP counter-drug operation supported by the Navy in the spring of 2006 off the coast of Africa, has received a prestigious award from the International Association of Chiefs of Police (IACP)...



MOST RECENT ADDITIONS


OTHER NEWS

What the Admiral said:

Navy achieves critical effects in deployments that span the globe

Significant equipment investments help prepare future navy

Good news for the Canadian Navy

International Stories:

Kiwis invade HMCS Algonquin

Hockey night in Dubai

Winning Hearts and Minds - One Fish at a Time

Domestic Stories:

Navy charts new waters in its strategic vision

Completing the Arctic mission while protecting the environment

Crowsnest - Vol. 1 No. 2

International Operations:

Mission important to security and stability of Persian Gulf region

HMCS Charlottetown to patrol the Persian Gulf

HMCS Toronto joins Standing NATO Maritime Group 1 for historic circumnavigation of Africa

Domestic Operations:

Successful counter-drug operation nets prestigious award

Operation NANOOK 07

Canadian navy conducts exercise in local waters

Backgrounders:

Canadian Navy’s Environmental Practices in Arctic Waters

Halifax-class modernization (HCM) / Frigate life extension (FELEX)

Arctic/offshore patrol ships