Dr Richard Gimblett holds degrees in history from RMC (BA 1979), Trent (MA 1981) and Laval (PhD 2000).  He is recently retired, having been the Command Historian of the Royal Canadian Navy 2006-18.  His previous uniformed service as a surface warfare officer (1975-2001) was in ships of various classes on both coasts, including as Combat Officer of HMCS Protecteur for operations in the Persian Gulf during the war of 1991, following which he co-authored the official account Operation FRICTION: The Canadian Forces in the Persian Gulf, 1990-1991 (Dundurn, 1997).  His last in-uniform appointment was to the Directorate of Maritime Strategy, developing Leadmark: The Navy’s Strategy for 2020.   He is a contributing author to The Seabound Coast: The Official History of the Royal Canadian Navy, Volume I, 1867-1939 (Dundurn, 2010), and is the editor of a pair of commemorative volumes for the Navy’s Centennial in 2010. His most recent book (with Karl Gagnon) is Guardians of the North: Canadian Warships and Maritime Aircraft, 1910-2025 (Dundurn, October 2025).  He remains active with the Canadian Nautical Research Society on the editorial board for their peer-reviewed journal The Northen Mariner / Le marin du nord.