CFAV Quest was an oceanographic research/acoustic vessel used by the Royal Canadian Navy and Defence Research and Development Canada.

Based out of Halifax, Nova Scotia, Quest's crew were civilian members of the Canadian Department of National Defence and the ship was classified as an auxiliary vessel (CFAV).

[4] As of February 2014, Quest was docked indefinitely at Halifax following budget cutbacks to the Royal Canadian Navy.

[3] On 2 September 2016 the Royal Canadian Navy announced through an email release that the ship would be decommissioned and "divested".

[5] In June Marine Recycling Corporation of Port Colborne, Ontario secured a CAD$12.6 million contract to dismantle the two ships at their Sydport facility at Sydney, Nova Scotia.