View down the port side of unknown corvette at sea, possibly HMCS MORDEN, KITCHENER or SHAWINIGAN. Roger Litwiller Collection, courtesy Raymond Leslie Ried, RCNVR. (RTL-RLR013)
Roll Along Wavy Navy, Roll Along
Excellent photo of how much a corvette could roll on the North Atlantic. The photo does not state the ship’s name, but the donor did serve in the corvette’s HMC Ships MORDEN, KITCHENER and SHAWINIGAN. Roger Litwiller Collection, courtesy Raymond Leslie Ried, RCNVR. (RTL-RLR012)
RCN Sailors
Two RCN sailors in HMCS SHAWINIGAN, unknown date/location. Roger Litwiller Collection -Photo courtesy Raymond Leslie Ried, RCNVR. (RTL-RLR020)
HMCS KITCHENER
HMCS KITCHENER arriving at St. George’s Harbour, Bermuda. She arrived a full day after HMCS TRENTONIAN. The two ships started the voyage together, but lost sight of each other during a fierce North Atlantic storm, that damaged TRENTONIAN and disabled most of her crew with sea-sickness in February 1944. Roger Litwiller Collection, Allen E. Singleton, […]
HMCS KITCHENER
HMCS KITCHENER in Halifax, ready to travel to Bermuda with TRENTONIAN in February 1944. The corvette was also known as Hollywood due to the movie, Corvette K225, filmed aboard her in 1943, staring Randolph Scott. Although if you ask any member of KITCHENER’s ships’ company, Randolph Scott played a supporting role, their ship was the […]
Roger Returns to RCSCC WARSPITE
On 7 February 2012, Roger was invited to visited his old Sea Cadet corps in Kitchener. For Roger this is where his love of the Canadian Navy and its history began. As a Sea Cadet with RCSCC WARSPITE and later as a Reserve Officer, he would listen to the veterans and the experiences they had […]