Notable Alumni
Notable alumni of the college are shown below.
| Name | Grad | Significance |
|---|---|---|
| Rear Admiral Leonard W. Murray | 1911-1913 | Commander-in-Chief, Canadian Northwest Atlantic 1943-1945 |
| Commodore Ronald Ian Agnew OBE | 1911-1913 | OBE Awarded as per Canada Gazette of 10 August 1935. |
| Vice Admiral George C. Jones | 1911-1913 | Chief of the Naval Staff 1944-1945; first RNCC graduate to command a ship in the RCN, HMCS Patrician |
| Lieutenant William McKinstry Heriot-Maitland-Dougall | 1911-1913 | killed on active service with his entire company of 29 officers and crew while in Command of HMS D3 off Le Havre on 12 March 1918 |
| Vice Admiral Harold Taylor Wood Grant | 1914-1917 | Chief of Naval Staff 1947-1950 |
59005-033 A brass plaque at St. Paul's Anglican Church in Esquimalt BC is dedicated to the four ex-cadets of the Royal Naval College of Canada and men of the Her Majesty's Ship (HMS) Good Hope who were killed in action in 1914 as well as Lieutenant W.M. Maitland-Dougall killed in 1918. Four cadets of the first class of the Royal Navy College of Canada (1911–14), were the First Canadian Navy Casualties in the First World War. Midshipman Malcolm Cann (RCNC 1911–14), Midshipman John V.W. Hatheway (RCNC 1911–14), Midshipman William Archibald Palmer (RCNC 1911–14), and Midshipman Arthur Wiltshire Silver (RCNC 1911-14), died when the British warship HMS Good Hope (1901) went down with no survivors, sunk by the German navy on 1 November 1914.
Another cadet was killed on active service with his company of 29 officers and crew while in Command of HMS D3 off Le Havre on 12 March 1918 at 23 years of age. An inquiry later found that Lieutenant (RCN) William McKinstry Heriot-Maitland-Dougall (1911–1914) had acted in the only manner possible to him. HMS D3 was sunk in error by French dirigible AT-9, which could not see D3`s insignia because of the sub’s reflection off the waves, and took her to be a U-boat firing upon it. The French hadn’t been informed that D3 was assigned to their waters in the English Channel and were not aware that British submarines were identifying themselves with rockets as opposed to flashing lights.
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