History of The Royal Canadian Navy - Decommissioned Fleet

Decommissioned Fleet

Class or name	Type	Builder	Quantity	Year Entered Service	Details
St. Laurent class	escort destroyers	Canada Canadian Vickers, Montreal Halifax Shipyards, Halifax NS Burrard, Vancouver, BC Yarrows, Esquimalt, BC Marine Industries Limited, Sorel, Quebec	7	1955–1994	all but 2 scrapped; Saguenay (Nova Scotia) and Assiniboine (Caribbean) were sunk as artificial reefs
Mackenzie class	escort destroyers	Canada Canadian Vickers, Montreal	4	1962–1994	3 were sunk with 2 as artificial reefs; Qu'Appelle's status is unknown
Restigouche class	escort destroyers	Canada Davie Shipbuilding, Lauzon, Quebec Halifax Shipyards, Halifax NS Burrard Dry Dock, North Vancouver, BC Victoria Machinery Depot, Victoria, BC	7	1958–1997	St Croix was scrapped, Gatineau and Terra Nova are laid up in Halifax and rest sunk as reefs
Iroquois class	escort destroyers	Canada MIL Davie Shipbuilding, Lauzon, Quebec	1 – HMCS Huron (DDH 281)	1970–2005	Sunk as a target ship by US and Canadian ships off the coast of BC in 2007
Oberon class	diesel electric submarine	United Kingdom Vickers-Armstrongs, Barrow-in-Furness	3 (+2 spares)	1964–2000	one sold to a museum in Rimouski, Quebec, the spare purchased for parts was scrapped, other spare to be scrapped, two others remain laid-up at Dartmouth jetty, across from main naval base
Tench class	diesel electric submarine	United States Portsmouth Naval Shipyard, Kittery, Maine	1 ( USS Argonaut (SS-475) renamed as HMCS Rainbow (SS-75) )	1968–1974	returned to US to be scrapped
Provider class	AOR (oiler replinishing ship)	Canada Davie Shipbuilding, Lauzon, Quebec	1 – HMCS Provider (AOR 508)	1963–2003	sold as barge and latter scrapped
N/A	ASL	Italy Aspa Quarto	1 – HMCS Cormorant (ASL 20)	1978–1997
Annapolis class	escort destroyers	Canada Marine Industries Limited, Sorel, Quebec	2	1964–1997	both sunk; Annapolis is a reef and Nipigon sunk in Quebec
Majestic class	light aircraft carrier	United Kingdom Harland and Wolff, Belfast	1 – HMCS Bonaventure (CVL 22)	1957–1970	scrapped in Taiwan
Cape class	escort maintenance	Canada Allied Shipbuilders Ltd., Vancouver, BC	2	1959–1970	status unknown
N/A	escort hydrofoil Frigate	Canada Marine Industries Limited, Sorel, Quebec de Havilland Canada, Toronto, Ontario	1 – HMCS Bras d'Or (FHE 400)	1970s	now at Musée Maritime du Québec
Glen-Class I tugs	tug		4 – Glendevon, Glenevis		WWII ships
YBZ-61	vacuum ship		1
Saint Class Deep Sea Tugs	ocean tug	Saint John Dry Dock, Saint John, NB 1957 Canada	3 – St. Anthony ATA 531, St. John ATA 532, St.Charles ATA 533		stricken beginning in 1972
Naval Research Vessel			1 – CFAV Endeavour		1968–1998
	Submersible	1 - SDL-1 SDL-1; built by International Hydrodynamics Corporation of Vancouver, BC		1971–1998	sold in 1998