On Friday November 6, 2026, His Majesty’s Canadian Ship Robert Hampton Gray was welcomed to its new home port of Esquimalt, British Columbia, following successful deployments and an historic coastal transfer through the waters of the Canadian Arctic Archipelago, which demonstrated the capabilities of the ship and crew.

His Majesty’s Canadian Ships (HMCS) Moncton and Edmonton returned to Halifax on Thursday November 5, 2026, concluding a deployment to European waters with the Standing North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) Mine Countermeasures Group One (SNMCMG1) under Operation REASSURANCE.

On the night of October 6, two main rotor blades struck the tail boom, severing multiple components, including the section 5 tail rotor drive shaft.

U.S., Canadian and Australian military personnel participated in a cyber exercise at Sagami Depot, Japan, Oct. 22, 2026.

Representatives from Canada, Finland and the United States met in Québec City and Ottawa to advance priorities under the collaboration to build Arctic and polar icebreakers

His Majesty’s Canadian Ship (HMCS) Ottawa arrived at its home port of Esquimalt, British Columbia, on Friday October 9, 2026, following the completion of a more than four-month deployment to the Indo-Pacific and North American West Arctic regions under Operations HORIZON and LATITUDE. 

On 25 April 1974, several Royal Canadian Navy ships were in the Port of Lisbon as Portugal’s Carnation Revolution overthrew the Estado Novo dictatorship.

Canada’s coastline is the longest on Earth. Its maritime approaches stretch from ice-choked Arctic channels to busy Atlantic and Pacific littorals, and the Navy cannot put a crewed ship on every square kilometre of that water. That simple geography is now driving one of the most consequential shifts in Royal Canadian Navy planning: the move from occasional presence toward persistent awareness, using uncrewed and increasingly autonomous systems above, on, and below the surface.

HMCS Regina aborted a planned Evolved Sea Sparrow Block II live-fire at Exercise RIMPAC 2026, off Hawaii, after drone target hardware failed, but the crew still extracted most of the training value from months of preparation.

In the waters of Coronation Gulf near Cambridge Bay, Nunavut, the Canadian Coast Guard icebreaker CCGS Des Groseilliers and the Royal Canadian Navy’s newest Arctic and Offshore Patrol Vessel, HMCS Robert Hampton Gray, recently wrapped up a multi-day joint security exercise with the RCMP.