HMCS TRENTONIAN (foreground) provides close escort to a burning freighter and HMS PEVENSEY CASTLE in the Irish Sea in January 1945. The RN Castle class corvette is alongside the merchant ship, assisting firefighting operations. Roger Litwiller Collection, Allen E. Singleton, RCNVR photo, courtesy Bruce Keir, RCNVR. (RTL-BK157)
HMS PEVENSEY CASTLE
HMS PEVENSEY CASTLE, Castle class corvette comes alongside a burning freighter, the MV Cromarty to assist with firefighting. HMCS TRENTONIAN (foreground) has already gone alongside the burning ship and transferred over firefighting equipment and has now started an Asdic sweep around the freighter and Castle class corvette in January 1945 in the Irish Sea. Roger […]
Merchant Ship on Fire -Irish sea
HMCS TRENTONIAN (foreground) and HMS PEVENSEY CASTLE stand by the burning freighter in the Irish Sea in January 1945. Photo taken from TRENTONIAN. Roger Litwiller Collection, Allen E. Singleton, RCNVR photo, courtesy Bruce Keir, RCNVR. (RTL-BK156)
FIRE, FIRE, FIRE!
HMCS TRENTONIAN was sent into the Irish Sea to assist this merchant ship on fire. Photo taken from TRENTONIAN on 16 January 1945. Roger Litwiller Collection, Allen E. Singleton, RCNVR photo, courtesy Tom Farrell, RCNVR. (RTL-TF059)
Ready to Assist Burning Freighter
HMCS TRENTONIAN’s crew have been closed up to assist with firefighting operations for a freighter on fire in the Irish sea. This group watch the events from the corvette’s foc’s’le and gun deck in January 1945. Roger Litwiller Collection, Allen E. Singleton, RCNVR photo, courtesy Bruce Keir, RCNVR. (RTL-BK194) This photo and collection have been […]
HMCS WINDSOR
HMCS WINDSOR covered in scaffolding while under refit at the RCN Dockyard in Halifax on 27 June 2010. Roger Litwiller Collection, courtesy Roger Litwiller. (RTL-DSCF5732)
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 OTTER
HMCS OTTER -Animal class armed yacht, was lost on 26 March 1941 from an on board fire and sank, off Halifax. Â At the time of the tragedy, she had a ship’s company of forty-one, nineteen sailors were killed. OTTER was one of fourteen large private yachts acquired by the Royal Canadian Navy to act as […]
29th Canadian Motor Torpedo Boat Flotilla Destroyed by Fire
On 14 February 1945 the 29th Canadian Motor Torpedo Boat Flotilla was destroyed by fire when 100 Octane fuel leaked into the protected basin at Ostende, Belgium where many RCN and RN torpedo boats were preparing for patrols that night.  The flash fire ignited many of the wooden hull boats, detonating depth charges and torpedoes on […]