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The Royal Canadian Navy’s Manning Depot, HMCS NIOBE, located in an old castle in Scotland in February 1945.

Roger Litwiller Collection, Allen E. Singleton, RCNVR photo, courtesy Bruce Keir, RCNVR. (RTL-BK204)

HMCS NIOBE, Scotland

October 5, 2017 by Roger Litwiller 2 Comments

The Royal Canadian Navy’s Manning Depot, HMCS NIOBE, located in an old castle in Scotland in February 1945.

Following the torpedoing of their ship, the survivors of HMCS TRENTONIAN were transferred to NIOBE to wait for travel orders for survivors leave in Canada.

Roger Litwiller Collection, Allen E. Singleton, RCNVR photo, courtesy Bruce Keir, RCNVR. (RTL-BK204)

This photo and collection have been gathered from the crew of HMCS TRENTONIAN and have been used by Roger Litwiller to create the book, White Ensign Flying, The Story of HMCS TRENTONIAN, published by Dundurn Publishing in 2014.

Filed Under: Photo of the Day Tagged With: Battle of Atlantic, History, HMCS, HMCS NIOBE, HMCS TRENTONIAN, Manning Depot, Naval History, Navy, North Atlantic, RCN, Roger Litwiller, Royal Canadian Navy, Scotland, ships, Warships of the Bay of Quinte, White Ensign Flying, WWII

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  1. Brenda says

    November 18, 2017 at 10:41 pm

    Researching reference to Niobe One from a naval diary, 1943-1944 . Found brief note above. Do you kmow where i might find more details, such as crew list, action, and where intended up post war?

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    • Roger Litwiller says

      November 19, 2017 at 8:44 am

      Hello Brenda, this photo is the manning depot for the RCN in Scotland during WWII and is considered NIOBE (II). The first NIOBE was a cruiser turned over to the fledgling RCN in 1910. She was paid-off for the last time on 31 May 1920, having acted as a depot ship in Halifax for several years. She was sold for scrap and broken up in Philadelphia two years later. If you are looking for published material on NIOBE, several books are available on the early history of the RCN, The Seabound Coast, Dundurn Publishing has a detailed account of the RCN during WWI and after. Also the website, For Posterity’s Sake has some information http://www.forposterityssake.ca/Navy/HMCS_NIOBE.htm . Beyond that a search of the records at the Library and Archives Canada will produce the “raw” archived material on this ship. I hope this helps. Cheers, Roger

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