HMCS SASKATCHEWAN firing it’s after 3 inch 50 calibre guns during a gunnery exercise in 1965. Roger Litwiller Collection, courtesy Brian Rideout. (RTL-BR003)
OJIBWA at Iroquois Lock
HMCS OJIBWA under tow by Florence M. enters the Iroquois Lock on the St. Lawrence Seaway on 4 June 2012. The former, Royal Canadian Navy submarine was towed from Halifax to Hamilton on Lake Ontario, where she underwent modifications to become a museum ship located at Port Burwell on Lake Erie. Roger Litwiller Collection, photo […]
HMCS BRAS’D’OR
The Royal Canadian Navy hydrofoil, HMCS BRAS’D’OR, FHE400, designed and built in Canada, she was ahead of her time. BRAS’D’OR is now laid up as a museum ship on the south shore of the St. Lawrence River at Musée Maritime du Québec, 55 chemin des Pionniers Est, L’Islet, Quebec and is well worth a visit. Roger […]
HMCS HAIDA Flagship Ceremony
Combined Naval Band from HMCS STAR and HMCS YORK during the ceremony on 26 May 2018 in Hamilton, ON dedicating HMCS HAIDA as the Ceremonial Flagship of the Royal Canadian Navy. Roger Litwiller Collection, courtesy of Roger Litwiller. (RTL67566)
Former HMCS IROQUOIS
Ex -HMCS IROQUOIS, recently paid-off, sits in HMC Dockyard in Halifax waiting her fate on 5 September 2015. Roger Litwiller collection, courtesy Roger Litwiller. (RTL53639)
Former HMCS OJIBWA
Former HMCS OJIBWA at the Iroquois Lock on 3 June 2012, to start it’s next career. The decommissioned Canadian “O” class submarine was being towed and refitted as a museum ship and now resides at Port Burwell, Ontario as a memorial to the Canadian men and women who fought the Cold War. This photo was […]
HMCS ATHABASKAN
HMCS ATHABASKAN (3rd) seen from starboard side of HMCS OTTAWA (3rd) in January 1981. Note: Scanned from original 110 Negative. Roger Litwiller Collection, courtesy Roger Litwiller. (RTL-RTL300416007)
RCAF Lockheed CT-133 Silver Star
RCAF Lockheed CT-133 Silver Star, on display at the Shearwater Aviation Museum, Air Park at the entrance to CFB Shearwater in Nova Scotia. Four Silver Stars were initially used to train RCN Pilots for the Banshee Jet Fighter and later as a towed target aircraft before being turned over to the RCAF during unification. Roger […]
HMCS HURON (1st) -Drydock, Toulon, France
HMCS HURON (1st) in the Toulon Drydock in France on 1 December 1958. The destroyer was involved in a collision with the French destroyer MAILLE-BREZE on 15 November 1958 during the NATO exercise MEDASWEX 27 in the Mediterranean. Ten feet of HURON’s bow was crumpled as far back as frame 10 and displaced 50 degrees […]
Women in the RCN -An Incredible Legacy
On 8 August 1914 a contingent of nursing sisters sailed in the the hastily converted, His Majesty’s Canadian Hospital Ship PRINCE GEORGE. I wonder if they realized they were making history. They were the first women to serve at sea in a ship under the control of the Royal Canadian Navy! This milestone would not be […]