Canadian Forces Base Esquimalt is the Royal Canadian Navy's Pacific Coast naval base and home port to Maritime Forces Pacific and Joint Task Force Pacific Headquarters. As of 2018, 4,411 military pers
Canadian naval ships docked at CFB Esquimalt
HMCS Aurora, HMCS Patriot, and HMCS Patrician at Esquimalt in 1921.
Orca of the Orca-class patrol vessels cruises among the Gulf Islands, 1 August 2007.
CFB Esquimalt on Vancouver Island, in the background the Olympic Peninsula.
The Royal Canadian Navy is the naval force of Canada, and one of three environmental commands of the Canadian Armed Forces. The command's official strength includes 8,400 Regular Force sailors, 4,100
CFB Esquimalt
…Canadian Forces Base Esquimalt (CFB Esquimalt) is the Royal Canadian Navy's Pacific Coast naval base and home port to Maritime Forces Pacific and Joint Task Force Pacific Headquarters. As of 2018, 4,411 military personnel and…
An RCN sailor at a gun aboard HMCS Assiniboine, while escorting an HX convoy, 1940
F2H-3 Banshees fly overhead HMCS Bonaventure aircraft carrier, c. 1950s
A CH-124 Sea King helicopter landing on HMCS Assiniboine with a beartrap on its deck, 1964
A CH-124 Sea King of Maritime Command's Maritime Air Group, flies towards HMCS Skeena, 1972. In 1975, control of the Maritime Air Group was transferred to Air Command.