HMCS VILLE DE QUEBEC undergoing her FELEX modernization at the Irving Shipyards in Halifax on 5 September 2015. Roger Litwiller collection, courtesy Roger Litwiller. (RTL53689) If you enjoy the content I create and find value in the articles on this website, please feel free to click on the coffee icon on the bottom right of […]
Operation NEPTUNE
View from HMCS TRENTONIAN on 7 June 1944 while the RCN corvette was in the Normandy invasion area. Stoker Bruce Keir wrote on this photo, “D-Day -Just a few of the 4,000.” Roger Litwiller Collection, Allen E. Singleton, RCNVR photo, courtesy Bruce Keir, RCNVR. (RTL-BK086) This photo and collection have been gathered from the crew […]
HMCS ST. JOHN’S -Kingston, ON.
HMCS ST JOHN’S steams past the limestone building that line the waterfront in Kingston, ON on 20 October 2019. Roger Litwiller Collection, courtesy Roger Litwiller. (RTL06960) If you enjoy the content I create and find value in the articles on this website, please feel free to click on the coffee icon on the bottom right […]
HMCS CORNWALLIS Obstacle Course
The log obstacle on the Assault (Obstacle) Course at HMCS CORNWALLIS in October 1956. Roger Litwiller Collection, courtesy Bill Daniels. (RTL-BD008) If you enjoy the content I create and find value in the articles on this website, please feel free to click on the coffee icon on the bottom right of the webpage and “Buy […]
Maritime Coastal Defence Vessels
Three Maritime Coastal Defence Vessels nested together at HMC Dockyard in Halifax on 31 August 2015. They are from left to right, HMCS GOOSE BAY, HMCS SUMMERSIDE and HMCS GLACE BAY. Roger Litwiller Collection, courtesy Roger Litwiller. (RTL13285) If you enjoy the content I create and find value in the articles on this website, please […]
HMCS PORTAGE Mast
An unidentified RCN sailor from HMCS PORTAGE has taken station in the minesweepers crow’s nest in early 1944. Excellent photo of the rigging and radar of an Algerine mast. Roger Litwiller Collection, courtesy Allan “Bud” Bruder, RCNVR. (RTL-AB012) If you enjoy the content I create and find value in the articles on this website, please […]
MV ASTERIX
MV ASTERIX at HMC Dockyard in Halifax, HMCS Montreal is in the background on 12 March 2018. Roger Litwiller Collection, courtesy Roger Litwiller. (RTL26510) If you enjoy the content I create and find value in the articles on this website, please feel free to click on the coffee icon on the bottom right of the […]
HMCS TRENTONIAN Shipmates
Three of HMCS TRENTONIAN’s sailors during escort operations in 1944, LS Ken McDonald (left), Secord (centre) and LS Aubrey Wells. Roger Litwiller Collection, Allen E. Singleton, RCNVR photo, courtesy Jack Harold, RCNVR. (RTL-JH063) If you enjoy the content I create and find value in the articles on this website, please feel free to click on […]
“Sisters of the Space Age”
Two “Sisters of the Space Age,” HMCS ATHABASKAN (right) and HMCS IROQUOIS, sit alongside at Halifax on 5 September 2015. IROQUOIS was decommissioned earlier in the year. Roger Litwiller collection, courtesy Roger Litwiller. (RTL53645) If you enjoy the content I create and find value in the articles on this website, please feel free to click […]
HMCS MAYFLOWER’s Toy Gun
Two of MAYFLOWER’s crew clear ice and snow from the forward gun deck. HMCS MAYFLOWER commissioned into the RCN on 28 November 1940. MAYFLOWER along with sister corvette HMCS HEPATICA left Halifax on 9 February 1941 without their 4in. guns, due to a shortage of weapons. In place of the gun barrel a wood post […]