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Built as HMS Kempenfelt in 1930, HMCS Assiniboine was transferred to the Royal Canadian Navy in 1939 and served as a destroyer during WWII. Under the command of LCDR John Stubbs, the Assiniboine rammed and sank U-210 off Newfoundland in 1942. She was paid off in 1945 and went aground on Prince Edward Island while under tow to a breaker’s yard in Baltimore, Maryland.

Her Majesty's Canadian Ship Donnacona is a reserve unit of the Royal Canadian Navy based in Montreal, Quebec. As with all Naval Reserve divisions, its approximately 200 sailors supplement the Royal Canadian Navy on board ship and at shore establishments on a part-time or contractual basis.

William Fitzherbert Bullen (1857 - 1921), a former employee at Albion Iron Works in Victoria, established the British Columbia Marine Railway Company in Lang Cove at the eastern end of Esquimalt Harbour in 1893. He was the managing director of the firm which he sold to Sir Alfred Yarrow in 1914.

Sir Alfred Yarrow, of Yarrow & Co. Shipbuilders in Scotland, purchased the B.C. Marine Railways Company in Esquimalt to create Yarrows Shipbuilding Ltd. Sir Alfred's son, Norman became Director in 1915 and Edward Izard, an Engineer trained at the parent firm in Scotland was the General Manager.

During WWII, Yarrows specialized in naval construction and produced 17 frigates. It expanded across Lang Cove in Esquimalt to create an additional building slip and fabrication shops at Munro Head. Yarrows was purchased by Burrard Drydock Company in 1946. Burrard Yarrows was purchased by Versatile Pacific in 1985. Versatile renamed the Esquimalt shipyard Yarrows Ltd. in 1991 when it sold its Vancouver assets but the shipyard closed in 1995.

The Canadian Government acquired the former Dunsmuir Estate, Hatley Castle, located in Colwood, British Columbia, in 1940 for use as military college. Part of the college, HMCS Royal Roads, was the naval officers training establishment for the rapidly-growing wartime Navy. The estate property extended down to the shoreline at Royal Roads, an anchorage convenient to Esquimalt and Victoria that had been names by Spanish explorers in the 18th century. The estate was commissioned as HMCS Royal Roads in December 1940 to train officers for the Royal Canadian Naval Volunteer Reserve and, in 1942, it became the Royal Naval College of Canada to train officers for the permanent force. In 1947, it became an RCN-RCAF College and in 1948, it became Royal Roads Military College, training officers for all three services.

Steel twin screw passenger liner, 12,099 tons gross, owned by Allan Line, operated by Canadian Pacific Ocean Services, registered in Glasgow.

Lieutenant Colonel C.W. King was a gunner serving in the Royal Navy in 1905 and subsequently lent to the Canadian Government.

Steel training ketch from 1943 to present. Built as yacht 1921, she served as training vessel from 1943 to 1945, and was reacquired by the Royal Canadian Navy in 1950.