HMCS MAYFLOWER Officer’s celebrate a New Year, January 1944. Pictured: Melanson, Gord Atkinson, Gar Smith. Roger Litwiller Collection, courtesy Ralph O’Brien, RCNVR. (RTL -ROB068)
LS Stephane Ferland
On New Years Eve, Naval Customs and Traditions has the ships bell rung 16 times, eight bells for the year ending and another eight bells to welcome the New Year. LS Stephane Ferland sounds out one ring on HMCS MONTREAL’s Bell for each RCN ship lost during the Battle of the Atlantic, on 1 Mar […]