Victoria class
Royal Canadian Navy
The Victoria-class Submarines play a crucial role in marine warfare. They are stealthy, lethal and persistent, enhancing the Royal Canadian Navy’s (RCN) capacity for surveillance and intelligence gathering.
Covert, well-armed, and capable of patrolling vast distances, submarines can provide support to maritime law-enforcement, narcotics trafficking, smuggling, and polluting cases, as well as conducting operations around the world and contributing to continental defence, including in the Arctic.
At a glance
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Speed
12 knots (surfaced) /
20 knots (submerged) -
Patrol
Endurance~8 weeks
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Complement
48 crew +
11 trainees -
Diving depth
> 200 metres
THE UNSEEN FORCE OF THE NATION
In an emerging crisis, a submarine presence can profoundly shape regional decision-making, and a submarine’s lethality can contribute decisively to combat operations, both in defending ships on the surface and placing opposing forces at peril.
No other asset in the Canadian Armed Forces can rival the Victoria class’ impact. As a result of their unrivalled stealth, persistence, and lethality, the mere possibility that a submarine is operating undetected can alter the entire nature of a crisis or conflict.
Vessels in class
- VictoriaSSK 876
Expect No Warning
- WindsorSSK 877
Silent Pride
- Corner BrookSSK 878
We Rule The Sea
- ChicoutimiSSK 879
Maître du Domaine (Master of the Domain)