HMCS TRENTONIAN in Halifax, February 1943. Looking forward from the starboard side of the bridge, you can see the corvettes gun deck and foc’s’le are more of ice rink than deck and the amount of ice that has accumulated on the stanchions and wires. Roger Litwiller Collection, Allen E. Singleton, RCNVR photo, courtesy Bruce Keir, […]
HMCS TRENTONIAN Sailors
Crew members of HMCS TRENTONIAN take a break from maintenance and boiler cleaning at Halifax in March 1944. Roger Litwiller Collection, Allen E. Singleton, RCNVR photo, courtesy Bruce Keir, RCNVR. (RTL-BK050)
HMCS TRENTONIAN -Normandy
Photo taken from the port side of HMCS TRENTONIAN’s bridge on the morning of 7 June 1944 as the corvette approaches the invasion area with her convoy and the other escorts trailing behind. Artist Marc Magee used this photo in his painting of HMCS TRENTONIAN, for the cover of the book, White Ensign Flying. Roger […]
Troop Ship -French Canadian Regiment
Troop ship anchored near HMCS TRENTONIAN with French Canadians soldiers, begins to disembark soldiers into landing craft on 7 June 1944 off the Normandy beachhead. When the Canadian soldiers noticed the Maple Leaf on TRENTONIAN’s funnel the soldiers cheered their navy brothers, which was promptly returned by corvettes ship’s company. Roger Litwiller Collection, Allen E. […]
HMCS WASKESIU
Painted in a disruptive camouflage scheme, HMCS WASKESIU, River class frigate passes HMCS TRENTONIAN in Lough Foyle in May 1944. The famous Canadian frigate had attacked and sunk the German submarine, U-257 earlier in the year. Roger Litwiller Collection, Allen E. Singleton, RCNVR photo, courtesy Bruce Keir, RCNVR. (RTL-BK68)
Newfoundland Fishing Schooner
Fishing off the Grand Banks continued during the war, in this photo HMCS TRENTONIAN passes a typical east coast fishing schooner as the corvette enters St. John’s harbour in April 1944. Roger Litwiller Collection, Allen E. Singleton, RCNVR photo, courtesy Jack Harold, RCNVR. (RTL-JH037)
Gunnery Practice
To keep a Ship’s Company at peak fighting efficiency, every opportunity to train was used to hone the sailors skills and ability. Â In this picture, the forward gun crew practices loading HMCS TRENTONIAN’s 4 inch gun while in Londonderry harbour in May 1944, just prior to the corvette’s participation in the invasion of Normandy. Roger […]
White Ensign Flying -Reviews
White Ensign Flying has been reviewed in several national and international magazines and journals. Below is a list of the various professional reviews to be published. REVIEWS The Northern Mariner/Le marin du nord -Canadian Nautical Research Society -“Ships lend themselves to biographical studies as readily as people. Roger Litwiller’s White Ensign Flying, a scholarly but highly readable […]
Warships of the Bay of Quinte -Reviews
Warships Of The Bay Of Quinte Dundurn Press April 2011 This is the story of six of Canadas Warships HMCS NAPANEE, HMCS BELLEVILLE, HMCS HALLOWELL, HMCS TRENTONIAN, HMCS QUINTE (I), and the HMCS QUINTE (II). These histories give a unique account of the small ships that have been the backbone of the Canadian Navy during […]
Just Tell The Story -The Best Advice I Ever Received
White Ensign Flying started as a research project to tell the history of HMCS TRENTONIAN to the cadets of the Navy League Corps named for the ship, NLCC Trentonian in Trenton. I was very disappointed by the lack of published material on this WWII corvette. So I started to dig, beginning with the local archives […]