On HMS PUNCHER’s deck a Firefly is returned onto its wheels after flipping on its nose during a landing late in 1945. PUNCHER Is manned by RCN sailors. Roger Litwiller Collection, courtesy Howard Abbott, RCNVR. (RTL-HA038)
Returning from the Sea
Roger Litwiller in HMCS OTTAWA, returning to Halifax in March 1981 following CARIBOPS81 in the Caribbean. Roger Litwiller Collection, courtesy Roger Litwiller. (RTL-RTL201115021)
Disembarking Wounded Sailors
Wounded and dead sailors from the cablelayer, HMTS Monarch are disembarked from HMCS TRENTONIAN in Portsmouth on 13 June 1944. TRENTONIAN and Monarch had been involved in a deadly friendly fire incident when an American destroyer, USS PLUNKETT opened fire on the two allied ships, mistaking them for enemy e-boats off the Normandy coast. TRENTONIAN […]
HMCS SACKVILLE and HMCS GOOSE BAY
HMCS SACKVILLE and HMCS GOOSE Bay alongside in HMC Dockyard in Halifax from HMCS VILLE DE QUEBEC on 5 May 2019. Roger Litwiller Collection, courtesy Roger Litwiller. (RTL-RTL59650)
HMCS MAYFOWER Passing French Cruiser MONTCALM
HMCS MAYFLOWER steams past the French cruiser MONTCALM in the American sector of the Normandy Beachhead during the invasion of Normandy in June 1944. Roger Litwiller Collection, courtesy Ralph O’Brien, RCNVR. (RTL-ROB019)
Arctic and Offshore Patrol Ships
Two Arctic and Offshore Patrol Ships under construction at Irving Shipyard in Halifax on 8 May 2019. Future HMCS HARRY DEWOLF is alongside and is the first of the class, while MARGARET BROOKE is still high and dry in the shipyard. At the time of this photo the 3rd and 4th AOPS are also building. […]
SS Lady Rodney
SS Lady Rodney in St. John’s, NF in May 1943. In peacetime, this ship sailed the Caribbean with 130 passengers and cargo, during the war she was converted to carry 500 soldiers. Photo taken from HMCS WASAGA. Roger Litwiller Collection, courtesy Ross Milligan, RCNR. (RTL-REM165)
HMCS SACKVILLE and MCDV’s
Kingston class MCDV’s, HMCS KINGSTON and MONCTON sit astern of HMCS SACKVILLE in Halifax on 14 December 2021. Roger Litwiller Collection, courtesy Roger Litwiller. (RTL01056)
HMCS TRENTONIAN Officers
Sub-Lieutenant C. LaRose (left), Lieutenant Burley Kinsmen (Centre) and Lieutenant William Harrison on HMCS TRENTONIAN’s bridge during convoy duty on the North Atlantic in March 1944. Roger Litwiller Collection, Allen E. Singleton, RCNVR photo, courtesy Bruce Keir, RCNVR. (RTL-BK038)
HMCS GOOSE BAY
HMCS GOOSE BAY anchored off Cobourg, Ontario at sunrise on 6 July 2016. Roger Litwiller Collection, courtesy Roger Litwiller. (RTL69679)