HMCS IROQUOIS with HMShips MAURITIUS and URSA steaming at 32 knots and laying smoke screen to evade fire from shore batteries off the west coast of France on 22 August 1944. IROQUOIS and MAURITIUS had been straddled by shells from the Gironde Shore Battery. Roger Litwiller Collection, Lynford Bourne, RCNVR photo, courtesy Battle of Atlantic […]
HMCS TRENTONIAN Smoke Screen
HMCS TRENTONIAN lays a thick smoke screen while escorting a convoy in the English Channel in August 1944. Roger Litwiller Collection, Allen Singleton Photo, courtesy Bruce Keir, RCNVR. (RTL-BK170)
TRENTONIAN Smoke Screen
HMCS TRENTONIAN laying a smoke screen in the Straits of Dover. The thick black smoke is produced from the ship’s boilers and would help conceal the convoy as they pass near the occupied French coast, in sight of the enemy’s guns. Roger Litwiller Collection, Allen E. Singleton, RCNVR photo, courtesy Bruce Keir, RCNVR. (RTL-BK170)