Royal Canadian Navy Service
Shearwater recommissioned on 8 September 1914 and was transferred in 1915 to the Royal Canadian Navy, becoming HMCS Shearwater. Two of Shearwater's 4-inch guns were taken ashore and used with a shore battery position to defend the Seymour Narrows, while the crew of Shearwater was sent to Halifax to man HMCS Niobe, which was short of trained sailors.
Shearwater was subsequently re-manned to become a submarine tender to the two submarines CC-1 and CC-2. In 1917 Shearwater escorted the two submarines to Halifax, transiting through the Panama Canal. For the remainder of the war, she saw very limited duty as an Royal Canadian Navy support vessel on the Atlantic coast.
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