On Monday 13 November 2023, His Majesty’s Canadian Ship HARRY DEWOLF secured alongside HMCS HAIDA in Hamilton, Ontario. On board the Royal Canadian Navy’s Arctic and Offshore Patrol Ship was a precious cargo, the Canadian Football League’s Grey Cup. Canada’s Navy has a long tradition of escorting the Grey Cup to the host city for […]
RCN Glen Class Tugs
RCN Glen class Tugs GLENSIDE and GLENBROOK hold HMCS VILLE DE QUEBEC in position of Point Pleasant Park in Halifax for the Battle of Atlantic Ceremony on 5 May 2019. Roger Litwiller Collection, courtesy Roger Litwiller. (RTL-RTL59685)
RCN Corvette
Unidentified, early war RCN corvette leaving Sydney Harbour in 1941. Roger Litwiller Collection, courtesy William Belling, RCNVR. (RTL-WB039)
HMCS PROTECTEUR
HMCS OTTAWA moves away from HMCS PROTECTEUR after a successful Replenishment-at-Sea in the Caribbean in January 1981. Roger Litwiller Collection, courtesy Roger Litwiller. (RTL-RTL300416027)
Memorial Parade -Curling NF 1943
HMCS WASAGA’s ships company marches behind the veterans of WWI, with members of the Newfoundland Home Guard following, in the Memorial Day Parade in Curling, NF on 4 July 1943. Memorial Day commemorates the sacrifice of the 1st Newfoundland Regiment during WWI at the Battle of Beaumont-Hamel and held on the anniversary of the first […]
HMCS GOOSE BAY Locking Through
HMCS GOOSE BAY clears the gates of Iroquois Lock on the St. Lawrence seaway as she proceeds to Lake Ontario for a tour on 27 June 2016. Roger Litwiller Collection, courtesy Roger litwiller. (RTL78865)
PHOENIX 194
Under escort by HMCS TRENTONIAN, PHOENIX 194 has broken her tow line and is drifting uncontrollably in the convoy channel in the Irish Sea on 19 October 1944. Several attempts were made by the tug crews and the sailors manning the caisson to get another tow line onto Phoenix 194. Eventually the Phoenix crew had […]
HMCS VILLE DE QUEBEC
Bow view of HMCS VILLE DE QUEBEC dressed overall for Canada Day celebrations in Halifax on 1 July 2012. Roger Litwiller Collection, courtesy Roger Litwiller. (RTL14130)
HMCS PORTAGE Aft Gun
RCN Sailor Allan “Bud” Bruder in HMCS PORTAGE, early 1944. He is standing in the 20mm aft gun position. Roger Litwiller Collection, courtesy Allan “Bud” Bruder, RCNVR. (RTL-AB014)
Arctic and Offshore Patrol Ships
Assisted by RCN tug Glenevis, HMCS HARRY DEWOLF approaches the jetty in HMC Dockyard, Halifax on 16 December 2021. The AOPS will secure astern of it’s sister the future HMCS MARGARET BROOKE (431). Roger Litwiller Collection, courtesy Roger Litwiller. (RL210089)