On 4 May 1910 Prime Minister Sir Wilfrid Laurier passed the Naval Service Act, which created the Naval Service of Canada, a year later to be named the Royal Canadian Navy.
Initially equipped with two former Royal Navy vessels, HMCS Niobe and HMCS Rainbow, King George V granted permission for the service to be known as the Royal Canadian Navy on 29 August 1911.
number B0 P467. The first ship commissioned into the service.
In 1968, the RCN was amalgamated with the Canadian Army and the Royal Canadian Air Force to form what is today the unified Canadian Armed Forces. The naval force was known as Maritime Command until 2011, when the environmental command was renamed as the Royal Canadian Navy.
The official title of the navy was the Naval Service of Canada (also Canadian Naval Forces), and the first Director of the Naval Service of Canada was Rear-Admiral Charles Kingsmill (Royal Navy, retired), who had previously been in charge of the Marine Service of the Department of Marine and Fisheries.
In 1911 the naval college was established in the dockyard at Halifax, Nova Scotia – “Royal Naval College of Canada“.
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