HMCS IROQUOIS passing the stern of HMCS SACKVILLE in Halifax harbour on 6 July 2012. Roger Litwiller Collection, courtesy Roger Litwiller. (RTL64618)
HMCS SKEENA
HMCS SKEENA has dressed ship and is very pusser with her brightly coloured camouflage and signal flags flying in July 1944. SKEENA’s “B” turret and gun have been removed and a hedgehog anti-submarine mortar has been mounted in its place. Photo taken from HMCS TRENTONIAN, 1 July 1944. Roger Litwiller Collection, Allen E. Singleton, RCNVR […]
CARIBOPS 1981
View of part of the RCN fleet, from HMCS OTTAWA while sailing to the Caribbean in January 1981. Note: Scanned from original 110 Negative. Roger Litwiller Collection, courtesy Roger Litwiller. (RTL-RTL300416014)
HMCS IROQUOIS Floral Sea Boat
HMCS IROQUOIS’s sea boat returns to the destroyer after sending a shore party to the liberated Channel Island of Ile d’Yeu on 27 August 1944. The grateful islanders showered the RCN sailors with flowers (visible on deck) and cake, being the first allied force to arrive on the island after the Germans had retreated. IROQUOIS’s […]
HMCS NIAGARA I 57
HMCS NIAGARA I 57, Town class destroyer, ex-USS THATCHER. Originally built in 1919 for the USN and was in commission as USS THATCHER until 1922, when she was placed in reserve. The destroyer was transferred to the RCN and commissioned on 24 September 1940 as HMCS NIAGARA as part of the Lend-Lease Agreement. NIAGARA remained […]
Funeral Capt F. J. Walker, RN
HMCS IROQUOIS ships company provides the Guard of Honor during the funeral of Captain, Frederic John Walker, RN, CB, DSO & Three Bars in Liverpool on 11 July 1944. The funeral was attended by more than 1000 people, RN ratings carried his body on a gun carraige, escorted by sailors from IROQUOIS, through the streets […]
HMCS MACKENZIE
HMCS MACKENZIE’s bow lifts out of the Pacific Ocean as the destroyer conducts a Jack-Stay transfer with its sister, HMCS SASKATCHEWAN during the Far East Cruise in 1965. Roger Litwiller Collection, courtesy Brian Rideout. (RTL-BR011)
HMCS ASSINIBOINE
HMCS ASSINIBOINE steams alongside HMCS OTTAWA during CARIBOPS in January 1981. Note: Scanned from original 110 Negative. Roger Litwiller Collection, courtesy Roger Litwiller. (RTL-RTL300416001)
Colours!
HMCShips MONTREAL and CHARLOTTETOWN raise the RCN Ensign and Jack during morning Colours while at HMC Dockyard, Halifax on 5 September 2015. Former RCN destroyer, HMCS IROQUOIS is in the background. Roger Litwiller collection, courtesy Roger Litwiller. (RTL53627)
Ex-HMCS ATHABASKAN
Ex-HMCS ATHABASKAN is moved by RCN Tugs GLENSIDE and LISTERVILLE in HMC Dockyard, Halifax on 28 July 2017. Roger Litwiller Collection, courtesy Roger Litwiller. (RTL83211)