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A Nominal List of Members of the Royal Naval Canadian Volunteer Reserve (RNCVR)

A partial alphabetical list of the personnel (those known to us from publicly available sources) who served in the Royal Naval Canadian Volunteer Reserve (RNCVR) 1914–1920

The Royal Canadian Naval Reserve

In a series of articles guest author Stephen Rybak outlines the origins of the development of the Naval Reserve in Canada from its days in the War of 1812 right up to the current era.

The University Naval Training Division (UNTD)

A personal experience in the Royal Canadian Naval Reserve University Naval Training Division (UNTD) in the last intake serving 1966–1968.

For twenty five years the Royal Canadian Naval Reserve University Naval Training Division (UNTD) trained university students and turned them into naval officers.

Life at the basic training base at Cornwallis NS was rigorous and exhausting. Here is a detailed look at the minute by minute schedule that drove every day of training.

Bill Clearihue has taken on the daunting task of tracking down all the former members of the University Naval Training Division – 8,000 young Canadians who trained with the Canadian naval reserve from 1943’1968. He has created a Nominal List which begins the process of sharing the huge body of information on this little–known unit that he has uncovered. He also shares a list of examples of former members who achieved career successes (which many of them attributing it to a good grounding gained during their naval training).

Hugh Williamson (UNTD Scotian 1966) found two original documents relating to the UNTD that members will find interesting. The first is the recruiting booklet that many members will have referenced when they made the decision to join. The second document is a rare copy of the ‘official history’ which was supposed to help UNTDs understand the genesis of the program. John Scott provided one from his collection from much earlier.

Bill Clearihue has developed and updated a Nominal List of the University Naval Training Division (UNTD) of the Royal Canadian Naval Reserve which contains the names of almost 6,000 former members and details of their service. Other lists available from him detail the former members known to be deceased and a list of former members who achieved positions of note in their civilian or military careers. Clearihue will update these lists from time’to’time and they will be updated on this site.

This is a work in progress. It is an attempt to list all the Canadian naval officers who participated in the ROUTP and successor training programs to produce officers for the regular and reserve navy. It is drawn from publicly available sources and from individual inputs.

The Royal Canadian Naval Reserve Fishermen’s Reserve Section

An overview of the Royal Canadian Naval Reserve Fishermen’s Reserve Section

An alphabetical list of the personnel who served in the Royal Canadian Naval Reserve Fishermen’s Reserve Section

A working list of the vessels thought to have comprised the Royal Canadian Navy Fishermen’s Reserve as well as some that are not traditionally included but that have ties to the Fishermen’s Reserve. (Links to detailed records of each of the vessel histories are included.)

There are still a number of veteran vessels from the Second World War unit known as the Fishermen's Reserve. The history of this unit has been documented in other articles in The Nauticapedia but here is an attempt to track down all the vessels still afloat (in 2016) on the BC coast.

Canadians in the RNVR

Newfoundland Naval Reserve Units

The Bay of Islands Patrol is a little’known unit attached to the Royal Canadian Naval Volunteer Reserve during the Second World War.

The RCN Naval Reserve Division in Cornerbrook Newfoundland, HMCS Caribou, was an attempt to engage Newfoundland more closely in the National Defence of Canada.

Nauticapedia

Site News: December 29, 2024

The vessel database has been updated and is now holding 94,901 vessel histories (with 16,289 images and 13,934 records of ship wrecks and marine disasters).

Vessel records are currently being reviewed and updated with more than 45,000 processed so far this year (2024).

The mariner and naval biography database has also been updated and now contains 58,599 entries (with 3997 images).

Thanks to Ray Warren who is beginning a long process of filling gaps in the photo record of the vessel histories in the vessel database. Ray has been documenting the ships of Vancouver Harbour for more than 60 years.

Thanks to contributor Mike Rydqvist McCammon for the hundreds of photos he continues to contribute to illustrate British Columbia’s floating heritage.

My very special thanks to our volunteer IT adviser, John Eyre, who (since 2021) has modernized, simplified and improved the update process for the databases into semi–automated processes. His participation has been vital to keeping the Nauticapedia available to our netizens.

Thanks to John Spivey who is beginning his 4th year of fact checking the entries in the vessel database.

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