HMCS SAGUENAY (1st) with deck awash and her stern gone following a collision with the Panamanian freighter Azra, setting off several of the destroyers depth charges. The collision occurred on 15 November 1942, south of Cape Race, while SAGUENAY was escorting convoy WB13 from St. John’s, NF to Sydney, NS. Azra was extensively damaged and […]
Hard Landing -HMS PUNCHER
On HMS PUNCHER’s deck a Firefly is returned onto its wheels after flipping on its nose during a landing late in 1945. PUNCHER Is manned by RCN sailors. Roger Litwiller Collection, courtesy Howard Abbott, RCNVR. (RTL-HA038)
HMCS QUINTE Refloated
HMCS QUINTE has been patched and refloated after striking Horse Head Rock in Cape Breton, ten days earlier on 30 November 1942. She will be towed to the wall of St. Peter’s Canal to stabilize the ship. QUINTE’s stretch of bad luck is not quite over as she will roll onto her beam ends and […]
HMCS HURON (1st) in Drydock
HMCS HURON 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 as frame 10 and displaced 50 degrees to starboard. […]
HMCS WASAGA Collision
Ross Milligan stands in the hole in HMCS WASAGA’s port side created when the danlayer HMS SURSAY had sliced into the minesweeper on 11 April 1945. The collision hit the seaman’s mess and playing cards can be seen strewn on the deck. Roger Litwiller Collection, courtesy Ross Milligan, RCNR. (RTL-REM130)
HMCS QUINTE Beached
A closer view of HMCS QUINTE beached and partially submerged in St. Peter’s Bay, Cape Breton in November 1942. Roger Litwiller Collection -Photo Courtesy Walter Gregory. (RTL-WG004) This photo has been used by Roger Litwiller to create the book, Warships Of The Bay Of Quinte, published by Dundurn Publishing in 2011.
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 […]
HMCS WASAGA Collision
Using the ship’s whaler, HMCS WASAGA’s damage control parties are able to inspect shoring and emergency repairs to the minesweepers hull after a collision with the danlayer HMS SURSAY on 11 April 1945. Roger Litwiller Collection, courtesy Ross Milligan, RCNR. (RTL-REM133)
Salvaging HMCS QUINTE
Salvage operations on HMCS QUINTE were begun by the Foundation Maritime’s ship Foundation Aranmore in November 1942, Cape Breton. QUINTE had grounded on Horse Head Shoal and was beached near St. Peter’s, Cape Breton. She was re-floated ten days later and moved to the wall at St. Peter’s Canal to continue pumping operations. The next […]
HMCS WASAGA Collision
With a sister ship alongside, sailors from both ships inspect the damage to HMCS WASAGA port side hull following a collision with the dan layer HMS SURSAY on 11 April 1945. The collision opened up the seaman’s mess and playing cards can be seen strewn on the deck. Roger Litwiller Collection, courtesy Ross Milligan, RCNR. […]