The Upholder/Victoria-class submarines, also known as the Type 2400, are a class of diesel-electric submarines built in the United Kingdom in the 1980s to supplement the nuclear submarines in the Subm
HMCS Corner Brook in 2025
A cross-section of an Upholder-class submarine
HMCS Victoria at Naval Base Kitsap in October 2004, several years after her acquisition by the Royal Canadian Navy
HMCS Chicoutimi aboard the heavy-lift ship Tern, April 2009
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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
Upholder/Victoria-class submarine
…submarines to the Pakistan Navy in 1993–1994, the Canadian government eventually purchased the submarines and a suite of trainers from the Royal Navy for Canadian Forces Maritime Command (renamed to Royal Canadian Navy in 2011) to replace their decommissioned Oberon-class submarines in 1998. In Canadian service, the submarines are…
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.