Quebec City is hit by a early winter storm, blanketing HMCS TRENTONIAN in snow, in December 1943. Due to a construction problem in the corvettes ventilating system, it is as cold in the ship as it is outside. Roger Litwiller Collection, courtesy Jack Harold, RCNVR. (RTL-JH052)
HMCS TRENTONIAN Departs for the UK
Four of HMCS TRENTONIAN’s ship’s company pose for a photo, with the Nova Scotia coast disappears behind them. TRENTONIAN departed Halifax for operations in the UK on 23 April 1944. Pictured: OS Walter Barber, AB Jim Rickard, AB Thomas Williams and an unidentified ship mate. Roger Litwiller Collection, Allen E. Singleton, RCNVR photo, courtesy Tom […]
Merchant Ship Fire
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)
HMCS NIOBE, Scotland
The Royal Canadian Navy’s Manning Depot, HMCS NIOBE, located in an old castle in Scotland in February 1945. Following the torpedoing of their ship, the survivors of HMCS TRENTONIAN were transferred to NIOBE to wait for travel orders for survivors leave in Canada. Roger Litwiller Collection, Allen E. Singleton, RCNVR photo, courtesy Bruce Keir, RCNVR. […]
PHOENIX 194
Under escort by HMCS TRENTONIAN, PHOENIX 194 has broken her tow line and is drifting uncontrollably in the convoy channel in the Irish Sea on 19 October 1944. Several attempts were made by the tug crews and the sailors manning the caisson to get another tow line onto Phoenix 194. Eventually the Phoenix crew had […]
Shoreleave Cherbourg, FR
Sailors from HMCS TRENTONIAN pose in front of one of the many boarded up business while on shoreleave in Cherbourg, France in October 1944. The strategic, French port city had just been liberated and the sailors were instructed to remain in large groups as German soldiers were still be found in the city. Roger Litwiller […]
RCN Corvette Sailor
RCN sailor from HMCS TRENTONIAN in 1944. Roger Litwiller Collection, courtesy of Jack Harold, RCNVR. (RTL-JH076)
Ready to Launch -HMCS TRENTONIAN
HMCS TRENTONIAN ready for launching on 1 September 1943 at Kingston Shipbuilding, Kingston, Ontario. Roger Litwiller Collection, courtesy Hank Winsor. (RTL-HW006)
RCN Sailors Ready to Go Ashore
HMCS TRENTONIAN sailors ready for shoreleave in Milford Haven, UK in 1944. Roger Litwiller Collection, courtesy of Tom Farrell, RCNVR. (RTL-TF087)
PIPE THE SIDE -Admirals Arriving
Rear-Admiral Fairbain, RN (FOIC) Milford Haven arrives to inspect HMCS TRENTONIAN in October 1944. The navy, stooped in traditions has a ceremony when receiving an Admiral aboard. The side is piped, orders called out and the ship’s officers stand ready. With all the ceremony the Admiral still has to climb the rope ladder up TRENTONIAN’s […]