Photo taken from the port side of HMCS TRENTONIAN’s bridge on the morning of 7 June 1944 as the corvette approaches the invasion area with her convoy and the other escorts trailing behind. Artist Marc Magee used this photo in his painting of HMCS TRENTONIAN, for the cover of the book, White Ensign Flying. Roger […]
HMCS MAYFLOWER -Make and Mend
Sailor from HMCS MAYFLOWER finds a comfortable spot dockside, repairing his uniform, during a Make and Mend. Roger Litwiller Collection, courtesy Ralph O’Brien, RCNVR. (RTL -ROB012)
HMCS NORSYD
Having passed through the Strait of Canso, newly constructed corvettes, HMCS TRENTONIAN and HMCS NORSYD sail in line abreast on the Atlantic Ocean for the first time in December 1943 in route to Halifax. Roger Litwiller Collection, Allen E. Singleton, RCNVR photo, courtesy Jack Harold, RCNVR. (RTL-JH046)
HMS PINK
Exceptional photo of the size difference between a corvette and a battleship. Bruce Keir wrote on this photo HMS PINK, Cardiff, October 1944. PINK was a Flower class corvette damaged by a torpedo from U988 on 27 June 1944 and was declared a total loss. The charring from the fire is clearly visible on her […]
HMCS SMITHS FALLS Christening
HMCS SMITHS FALLS during christening ceremony at Kingston Shipbuilding Yards on 19 August 1944. C.D. Howe is standing in the centre of the photo in the white hat. Roger Litwiller Collection, courtesy of Hank Winsor. (RTL-HW012)
HMCS TRENTONIAN’s Chiefs and Petty Officer’s
HMCS TRENTONIAN’s Chiefs and Petty Officer’s in 1944. Left to Right, Top row: CPO Thomas Roberts, Coxswain, A/SPO William Walsh (Newport, NS), C/ERA Murray Angus (Smith Falls, ON), SPO Earl Bateman (Cobalt, ON), A/PO Richard Medhurst (Victoria, BC), Bottom Row: ERA William Clarke, ERA James Farmer (New Glasgow, NS), SPO Lee Nolan (Halifax, NS), PO […]
Halifax Escorts
Escorts are secured five abreast in Halifax harbour in March 1944 in this photo taken from HMCS TRENTONIAN. HMCS AMHERST (K148) is second from the left and HMCS REGINA (K234) is in the centre. Roger Litwiller Collection, Allen E. Singleton, RCNVR photo, courtesy Jack Harold, RCNVR. (RTL-JH031)
HMCS TRENTONIAN Goes Deep Sea Fishing
HMCS TRENTONIAN joined the East Coast fishing fleet, when her Commanding Officer, Lt. Bill Harrison orders a single depth charge dropped from the corvette, while off the Grand Banks in March 1944. TRENTONIAN’s whaler was then lowered and the boat crew picked up this incredible bounty from the sea. Once on the corvette’s deck, the […]
HMCS PRESCOTT
HMCS PRESCOTT, corvette is launched from Kingston Shipbuilding Yards in Kingston, Ontario on 7 January 1941 into a frozen Lake Ontario. Roger Litwiller Collection, photo courtesy of Hank Winsor. (RTL-HW013)
Icebound -HMCS TRENTONIAN
With her forward gun rendered inoperable, HMCS TRENTONIAN enters Halifax harbour encased in ice, in February 1944. The corvette’s constant battle with the ice, winds and waves of the North Atlantic is told in Roger Litwiller’s newest book, White Ensign Flying available in the New Year from Dundurn Publishing at Amazon and Indigo online or […]