The port at Cardiff, Wales as seen from HMCS TRENTONIAN in October 1944. A busy sea port with several merchants ships discharging their precious cargo’s after making the dangerous voyage across the Atlantic Ocean and attacks by the German U-Boats. Roger Litwiller Collection, Allen E. Singleton, RCNVR photo, courtesy Bruce Keir, RCNVR. (RTL-BK163)
FIRE, FIRE, FIRE!
HMCS TRENTONIAN was sent into the Irish Sea to assist this merchant ship on fire. Photo taken from TRENTONIAN on 16 January 1945. Roger Litwiller Collection, Allen E. Singleton, RCNVR photo, courtesy Tom Farrell, RCNVR. (RTL-TF059)
Ready to Assist Burning Freighter
HMCS TRENTONIAN’s crew have been closed up to assist with firefighting operations for a freighter on fire in the Irish sea. This group watch the events from the corvette’s foc’s’le and gun deck in January 1945. Roger Litwiller Collection, Allen E. Singleton, RCNVR photo, courtesy Bruce Keir, RCNVR. (RTL-BK194) This photo and collection have been […]
Argentia, Newfoundland
HMCS TRENTONIAN was briefly secured ahead of this merchant ship unloading cargo in the harbour at Argentia, NF. in March 1944. Roger Litwiller Collection, Allen E. Singleton, RCNVR photo, courtesy Bruce Keir, RCNVR. (RTL-BK056)
U-Boat Survivor -St. John’s, NF.
For many of the younger crew members in HMCS TRENTONIAN this merchant ship, possibly the Dutch freighter SS Moderita, was their first taste of why they were escorting convoys. She was torpedoed by a German U-boat on the North Atlantic, blowing a large hole in her bow, she was able to make her way to […]
HMCS MARGAREE
HMCS MARGAREE -River class destroyer, was lost in collision with M/V Port Fairy on the North Atlantic on 22 October 1940. At the time of her loss she had 176 sailors in her ship’s company, 142 were killed with thirty-two survivors. MARGAREE had commissioned into the Royal Canadian Navy only a few weeks earlier on […]