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USS ALABAMA

March 2, 2023 by Roger Litwiller

USS ALABAMA

HMCS SKEENA steams past the US Navy battleship, USS ALABAMA in July 1943. Possibly in Iceland or Scapa Flow. Roger Litwiller Collection, courtesy William Belling, RCNVR. (RTL-WB092)

Filed Under: Photo of the Day Tagged With: Battle of Atlantic, Battleship, Destroyer, HMCS, HMCS SKEENA, Iceland, Naval History, Navy, North Atlantic, RCN, River class destroyer, Royal Canadian Navy, Scapa Flow, ships, United States Navy, USN, USS ALABAMA, WWII

HMSubmarine N34

January 11, 2023 by Roger Litwiller

HMSubmarine N34

HMCS SKEENA conducted anti-submarine exercises with HMSubmarine N34 off Lough Foyle on 9 December 1942. Photo taken from SKEENA. Roger Litwiller Collection, courtesy William Belling, RCNVR. (RTL-WB076) If you enjoy the content I create and find value in the articles on this website, please feel free to click on the coffee icon on the bottom […]

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HMCS SKEENA

November 4, 2021 by Roger Litwiller

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 […]

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HMCS SKEENA

May 1, 2015 by Roger Litwiller

HMCS SKEENA

HMCS SKEENA -River class destroyer, grounded and lost during a gale in Reykjavik, Iceland on 25 October 1944. Of the destroyers ship’s company of 181, fifteen sailors were killed. SKEENA had been on patrol south of Iceland in a full gale with HMCShips QU’APPELLE and ST. LAURENT when the escort group was ordered to return […]

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