Royal Canadian Navy

The Makena set out for Halifax in fine weather under the steady hand of a respected skipper. It would be the yacht’s last voyage—and only the heroics of Canadian rescuers would spare its crew from tragedy.

Image of the Week: A high-seas rescue by crews returning from naval exercises captures the perils of their work, and the ferocity of the North Atlantic

The $440 million USS Little Rock may be “sleek, agile and deadly”—but it’ll have to wait for the spring thaw to prove it

Opinion: Why the Canadian Armed Forces are trapped in a catch-22—and why pressure on our politicians is the only thing that can break it

Opinion: Canada’s shipbuilding plan is ballooning in cost—as these projects often do in many countries. But a former Navy commander says there is another way

Chrystia Freeland set out a bold vision for Canada’s foreign policy. But the Liberals’ defence policy seems to offer few ways to meet it.

A giant, rubber duck is headed to Toronto this summer for Canada Day. Here’s how it compares in size to the ships in Canada’s navy

Canada’s only Arctic deep-water port is now closed, leaving workers in Churchill puzzled and any talk of Arctic sovereignty feeling like empty rhetoric

Evan Solomon and David Perry hash out Liberal headaches on the military file.

Evan Solomon on National Defence’s looming funding crisis

A maritime nation has let its naval fleet fall apart. Here’s how a once-proud force fell into such an embarrassing state of disrepair

Having escaped the Nazis in his youth, Peter C. Newman wanted to prove he was a true-blue Canadian. What he found, then and now, were dramatic shortcomings