Group of RCN sailors at the CPR station in Port Arthur, ON. (now Thunder Bay), sometime between 1943 and 1945. Roger Litwiller Collection, courtesy Allan “Bud” Bruder, RCNVR. (RTL-AB006)
HMCS TORONTO in the St. Lawrence River
HMCS TORONTO in the St. Lawrence River, east of Iroquois, Ontario on 8 July 2017. Roger Litwiller Collection, courtesy Roger Litwiller (RTL82377)
RCN Corvette Landing Wounded Sailors
HMCS TRENTONIAN arrives at Portsmouth on 13 June 1944, with the wounded from the cable layer HMTS Monarch following a friendly fire incident with USS PLUNKETT the previous night. Ambulances, medical staff and photographers are waiting, even though no news of this tragic event will be released by the RCN. Roger Litwiller Collection, Allen E. […]
HMCS REGINA’s Forward Gun
HMCS REGINA’s forward BOFORS 57 mm MK3 Naval Automatic Gun receives some maintenance after the turret has been painted, on 19 September 2019 in HMC Dockyard in Esquimalt, BC. The frigate is receiving its 75th Anniversary Battle of the Atlantic camouflage paint scheme. In tribute to HMCS REGINA’s (1st) the ships company has adopted the […]
HMS PHILANTE, Armed Yacht
Admiral Sir Max Horton (RN) CaptainD, Armed yacht, HMS PHILANTE at Larne, Scotland in August 1943. PHILANTE was purchased from the Sopwith family and converted for the Royal Navy, initially escorting seven convoys across the Atlantic, then in 1943 she joined the Western Approaches Command as part of the Tactical Unit, responsible for training escort […]
HMCS KINGSTON at Iroquois Lock
HMCS KINGSTON transit Iroquois Lock on the St. Lawrence Seaway as she enters the Great Lakes for a tour on 27 June 2016. Roger Litwiller Collection, courtesy Roger Litwiller. (RTL78831)
HMCS WASAGA in Drydock
HMCS WASAGA hull has been given a fresh coat of anti-fouling paint while on the marine slip in Dartmouth in 1943. A great photo of the Bangor class minesweepers twin screws. WASAGA’s starboard propeller seems to have been marked for HMCS GRANDMERE. Roger Litwiller Collection, courtesy Ross Milligan, RCNR. (RTL-REM093)
HMCS OJIBWA
Former RCN submarine HMCS OJIBWA passing through the Iroquois Locks on the St. Lawrence Seaway on 3 June 2012. OJIBWA’s sail now promotes the project that will restore the cold war submarine to it’s former glory. Roger Litwiller Collection, courtesy Roger Litwiller. (RTL33796)
HMCS TRENTONIAN -Quebec City
Quebec City is hit by a early winter storm, blanketing HMCS TRENTONIAN in snow, in December 1943. Due to a construction problem in the corvettes ventilating system, it is as cold in the ship as it is outside. Roger Litwiller Collection, courtesy Jack Harold, RCNVR. (RTL-JH052)
RCN Hawker Sea Fury FBII
Hawker Sea Fury FBII on display at the Naval Museum of Alberta in The Military Museums at Calgary. Seventy-five Sea Fury Fighters flew with the RCN many from the aircraft carrier HMCS MAGNIFICENT. Roger Litwiller Collection, courtesy Roger Litwiller. (RTL20898)