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Persons Who Have Commanded Canadian Naval Vessels
Over about 150 years many Canadians have commanded naval vessels in Canada and elsewhere. Some non–Canadians have commanded Canadian vessels. This list is an attempt to give interactive access to the biographies of these individuals. The list is not complete and is derived by volunteers from publicly accessible sources.
25 matches. 1 page. Max 100 records per page.Page # 1
| Name | Title | ON |
|---|---|---|
| Adamthwaite, David V. | Commander (MARS) | |
| Allen, Albert | Chief Skipper (RNCVR) | |
| Auchterlonie, James Harold | Skipper Coxswain (Fishermen's Reserve Section) (RCNR) | |
| Barkhouse, Robert McDonald | Commander (RCN) | |
| Barr, John Velere | Mate (RNCVR) | |
| Bennett, Ronald Vivian | Chief Skipper (RNCVR) | |
| Chandler, William Ralph | Skipper Lieutenant (RCNR) | |
| Dicks, John Theodore | Chief Skipper (RNCVR) | |
| Fedderly, Gene Clair | Lieutenant-Commander (RCN) | |
| Gilmour, William Henry | Chief Skipper (RCN) | |
| Griffiths, Griffith | Chief Skipper (RCN) | |
| Hamilton, Daniel | Mate (RNCVR) | |
| Hare, Thomas G. | Chief Skipper (RCN) | |
| Holland, George G. | Skipper (RCN) | |
| Kelly, Thomas Basil | Chief Skipper (RNCVR) | |
| Lancashire, Robert James | Commander (MARS) | |
| McBride, William | Chief Skipper (RCN) | |
| Meek, Geoffrey Robert | Lieutenant-Commander (RCN) | |
| Mitchell, Walter Frederick | Chief Skipper (RCN) | |
| Montgomery, Patrick | Commodore (RCN) | |
| Moore, Arthur | Skipper (RNCVR) | |
| Nethercott, Michael | Captain (N) (RCN) | |
| Plante, Joseph Emile | Skipper Lieutenant (RCNR) | |
| Stewart, Donald William | Chief Skipper (RCN) | |
| Wright, George Alexander | Lieutenant (RCNVR) |
Can You Help Update This List?: This list is being assembled by a group of volunteers who depend on public sources of information to make it accurate and complete. It is not complete. Please contact us if you are able to help. Email us at admin(at)nauticapedia.ca (replace the (at with the @ sign to make the address ‘work’.
Site News: January 14, 2025
The vessel database has been updated and is now holding 94,957 vessel histories (with 16,337 images and 13,935 records of ship wrecks and marine disasters).
The mariner and naval biography database has also been updated and now contains 58,599 entries (with 3998 images).
My thanks to Ray Warren who is beginning a long process of filling gaps in the photo record of the vessel histories in the vessel database. Ray has been documenting the ships of Vancouver Harbour for more than 60 years.
Thanks to contributor Mike Rydqvist McCammon for the hundreds of photos he continues to contribute to illustrate British Columbia’s floating heritage.
My very special thanks to our volunteer IT adviser, John Eyre, who (since 2021) has modernized, simplified and improved the update process for the databases into semi–automated processes. His participation has been vital to keeping the Nauticapedia available to our netizens.
Thanks to John Spivey who is beginning his 4th year of fact checking all of the entries in the vessel database.