By Dr. Ann Griffiths, 26 February 2025
In its latest “Your Navy Today,” the RCN laid out what the ships – but not the submarines – will be up to in the first half of 2025. But the way the world is changing these days, who knows what other tasks will pop up in the near future!
- HMCS Harry DeWolf will support Operation Caribbe from January to April.
- HMCS Margaret Brooke left in January to circumnavigate South America and visit Antarctica as part of Operation Projection. The ship will be gone until May.
- Starting in March, HMCS Ville de Québec will deploy for Operation Horizon, joined by HMCS William Hall in April, for Exercise Tradewinds, to strengthen Canada’s Indo-Pacific presence.
- In April HMCS Montréal will deploy to the Maritime Task Force of Operation Reassurance, which contributes ships to the Standing NATO Maritime Groups. It will also participate in Exercise Formidable Shield in May.
- In June, HMCS St. John’s will also deploy for Op Reassurance, followed by Kingston-class ships later in the summer, supporting NATO’s deterrence measures in Central and Eastern Europe.
- In June Exercise Cutlass Fury and Fleet Week will kick off with contributions from multiple RCN ships.
- In July HMCS Margaret Brooke will head to the Arctic as part of Operation Nanook.
- M/V Astérix will continue its force generation mission on the East Coast through the summer.
Image: HMCS MARGARET BROOKE alongside Rio de Janeiro during Operation PROJECTION 25-01 on 4 February 2025. Photo by: Corporal Connor Bennett, Canadian Armed Forces Photo.
3 thoughts on “The RCN in 2025”
Sadly, no combat training. With only constabulary and virtue signaling duties, do we really need the expensive CSC?
Every one of those deployments involve combat training to one extent or another…..
I’m not sure that all combat training would be publicly announced in advance or require a deployment. But surely Exercise Tradewinds, Exercise Formidable Shield and Exercise Cutlass Fury, all mentioned in the list above, involve something more than sailing in formation!