The following are just a few of the many ships of the Royal Canadian Naval Fleet, past and present.

Niobe was built by Vickers, Barrow-In-Furness, UK and served in the RN (Royal Navy) from 1898 to 1910. One of eight sisters of the Diadem class, she was commissioned in the RCN (Royal Canadian Navy) on September 6, 1910 at Devonport. Niobe was nearly lost during the night of July 30-31, 1911, when she went aground off Cape Sable. In 1914, she joined the Royal Navy's 4th Cruiser Squadron on contraband patrol off New York. She returned to Halifax, Nova Scotia in 1915. Her upperworks were wrecked in the Halifax explosion of 1917.

Built by Portsmith Naval Dockyard, UK and commissioned in 1938 at Chatham, U.K., the Restigouche was one of the Destroyer, River Class of ships. She performed local escort duties from Halifax, Nova Scotia until 1940 when she left for Plymouth, UK and was assigned to Western Approaches Command. In 1941, "Rustyguts" was allocated to Newfoundland Command. In 1945, she performed various local duties, and after VE-Day was employed for three months bringing home military personnel from Newfoundland and was broken up the following year.

Bonaventure, was an aircraft carrier built by Harland and Wolff Ltd., in Belfast, Ireland. Named after a bird sanctuary in the Gulf of St. Lawrence, she was commissioned at Belfast on January 17, 1957 and arrived at Halifax on June 26. She had Banshee jet fighters and Tracker A/S aircraft as her complement. She enjoyed a busy career of flying training and participation in A/S and tactical exercises with ships of other NATO nations. Her 1966-67 refit, took 16 months and $11 million to complete.