Royal Canadian Navy

The Royal Canadian Navy (RCN) was the navy of Canada from 1911 to 1968. From May 4, 1910 to August 29, 1911 the navy was known as the Naval Service of Canada and operationally as Canadian Naval Forces. In the 1960s politicians believed that unification of the services was more appropriate than single services remaining. Therefore in 1968 all three Canadian services were unified to form the Canadian Armed Forces (short form: Canadian Forces (CF)).

Royal Canadian Navy in Southern Victory
When the Great War broke out in 1914, the Royal Canadian Navy was a relevantly small force compared with their US counterpart, but they were still formidable. Their prime job was keeping the waters near Canada open for supply convoys that came from both the Pacific and Atlantic, but the Atlantic was the major priority.

The most action the RCN saw was in the Great Lakes. While the US navy chose to peruse a fleet of Great Lakes Battleships, the Canadians sought a more practical method of defending their Great Lakes coast line, by sowing the seas thick with mines; Although they did build some GLB of their own, the mines proved more than effective.

The RCN also scored another victory over their US rivals in the Pacific where they and the British managed to bottle up the Seattle squadron of the US Pacific Fleet.

By the wars end, the RCN remained undefeated, but was forced to disband after the US annexed the country.