HMCS TRENTONIAN’s bridge crew are working through the latest exercise during training evolution’s in Bermuda, February 1944. The entire crew from the skipper, Lt. Wm. Harrison to the stokers in the boiler room would be train and be tested to bring the readiness of the corvette to a high standard. Roger Litwiller Collection, Allen E. […]
Search Results for: bermuda
RCN Sailor -Bermuda
Unidentified Canadian Sailor in Bermuda, possibly around 1944. Roger Litwiller Collection, courtesy Ralph O’Brien, RCNVR. RTL-ROB072)
Anti-Submarine Air Patrols -Bermuda
Aircraft conduct Anti-Submarine patrols around Bermuda as this aircraft flies over HMCS TRENTONIAN during her Working Up evolution’s in February 1944. Roger Litwiller Collection, Allen E. Singleton, RCNVR photo, courtesy Jack Harold, RCNVR. (RTL-JH064)
RCN Sailor -Bermuda
Unidentified Canadian Sailor from HMCS MAYFLOWER on shore leave in Bermuda, possibly around 1944. Roger Litwiller Collection, courtesy Ralph O’Brien, RCNVR. RTL-ROB071)
HMCS TRENTONIAN Sailors
Several of HMCS TRENTONIAN crew members pose for a photo in Bermuda in February 1944. Top Row: Wilfred Thompson (Vancouver, BC), Robert Powell (Portreeve, SK) and Arthur “Slats” Slater (Winnipeg, MB). Bottom Row: Roy Evans (Saskatoon, SK) and Joe Gosskie (Birnie, MB). Roger Litwiller Collection, Allen E. Singleton, RCNVR photo, courtesy Tom Farrell, RCNVR. (RTL-TF099)
TRENTONIAN Shipmates
Two shipmates from HMCS TRENTONIAN, AB Sydney Hunter (right) and Joe Taft in Bermuda, almost recovered, having endured the storm. Taft is one of TRENTONIAN’s two cooks, both of whom were incapacitated by seasickness during the storm in, February 1944. Roger Litwiller Collection, Allen E. Singleton, RCNVR photo, courtesy Jack Harold, RCNVR. (RTL-JH073) This photo […]
HMCS TRENTONIAN Refueling
HMCS TRENTONIAN covered in ice, takes on fuel before leaving the bone chilling cold of Halifax for warmer weather in Bermuda in February 1944. The corvette and her crew will spend almost two weeks in Bermuda for work up and training evolution’s, getting their newly commissioned ship ready for Convoy Operations on the North Atlantic. […]
USS HEYWOOD L. EDWARDS
The USN used Bermuda for training as well as Canada. This picture of the newly commissioned USS HEYWOOD L. EDWARDS, a Fletcher class destroyer was taken from HMCS TRENTONIAN on 26 February, 1944. Roger Litwiller Collection, Allen E. Singleton, RCNVR photo, courtesy Jack Harold, RCNVR. (RTL-JH041)
HMCS KITCHENER
HMCS KITCHENER arriving at St. George’s Harbour, Bermuda. She arrived a full day after HMCS TRENTONIAN. The two ships started the voyage together, but lost sight of each other during a fierce North Atlantic storm, that damaged TRENTONIAN and disabled most of her crew with sea-sickness in February 1944. Roger Litwiller Collection, Allen E. Singleton, […]
HMCS KITCHENER
HMCS KITCHENER in Halifax, ready to travel to Bermuda with TRENTONIAN in February 1944. The corvette was also known as Hollywood due to the movie, Corvette K225, filmed aboard her in 1943, staring Randolph Scott. Although if you ask any member of KITCHENER’s ships’ company, Randolph Scott played a supporting role, their ship was the […]