SQUADRON COMMANDERS
1914 - 1996

Officer in Command of Submarines
Lt. Adrian St. Vincent Keyes, RCN 6 August 1914

Officer in Command of HMCS Shearwater I and Submarine Flotilla
Lt. A. St. V. Keyes, RCN 1 October 1914

Officer in Command , Flotilla
Lt. Bertram Edward Jones, RCN 9 January 1915
Lt. Cdr B.E. Jones, RCN 30 August 1915

Commander Submarines
Commander B.E. Jones, RCN 1 November 1917

When WW1 threatened to break out, Keyes and Jones were living and working in Canada. Both were experienced SM COs. They had left the Royal Navy prematurely and were on the RN Emergency List. In August, 1914, they accepted temporary commissions in the RCN to take command of the submarines CC1 and CC2 that the British Columbia Government, acting on behalf of the Naval Service of Canada, had bought from a Seattle shipbuilder.
 
 

 SENIOR OFFICER SUBMARINES (CH14 AND CH15)
 

Lt. Ronald C. Watson, RCN April 1921
 

6 S/M Sqdn. Commander W.T.J. Fox 14 March 1955
6 S/M Sqdn. Commander J.S. Stevens, DSO, DSC 19 June 1957
6 S/M Sqdn. Commander H.K. Gowan January 1958
6 S/M Sqdn. Commander Stephen Jenner 14 June 1960
6 S/M Div. Commander K. Vause 1 October 1962
6 S/M Div. Commander J.V. Hervey 21 September 1964

 

 

   1st CANADIAN SUBMARINE SQUADRON

Commander E.C. Gigg, RCN July 1966
Lt. Colonel (N) M. Tate, CAF July 1969
Lt. Colonel (N) J.C. Wood, CAF July 1972
Lt. Colonel (N) P.W. Cairns, CAF July 1974
Lt. Colonel (N) J.E.D. Bell, CAF July 1975
Lt. Colonel (N) R.C. Hunt, CAF January 1978
Commander R.C. Perks, CAF August 1981
Commander K.C. Nesbitt, CAF July 1983
Commander W.J. Sloan, CAF December 1984
Commander F.C. McMillan, CAF August 1987
Captain (N) A.B. Dunlop, CAF July 1989
Captain (N ) J.A.Y. Plante, CAF December 1990
Commander F. Scherber, CAF April 1992
Commander N.P. Nicolson, CAF July 1994