The Royal Canadian Navy’s Manning Depot, HMCS NIOBE (2nd) in February 1945, located in the Smithson Institute at Greenock Scotland. 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 […]
HMCS TRENTONIAN Football Team
HMCS TRENTONIAN’s football team. Warrant Engineer Hindle was an avid football player and fan. He organized a team from the ship to take on the local team in Milford Haven. The crew reports, they played as good as they looked. Roger Litwiller Collection, Allen E. Singleton, RCNVR photo, courtesy Douglas Campbell, RCNVR. (RTL-DC059) This photo […]
HMCS TRENTONIAN -Montreal
HMCS TRENTONIAN in Montreal in December 1943, thin sheets of ice are starting to form on the St. Lawrence River. Roger Litwiller Collection, Allen E. Singleton, RCNVR photo, courtesy Jack Harold, RCNVR. (RTL-JH050) If you enjoy the content I create and find value in the articles on this website, please feel free to click on […]
Operation NEPTUNE
View from HMCS TRENTONIAN on 7 June 1944 while the RCN corvette was in the Normandy invasion area. Stoker Bruce Keir wrote on this photo, “D-Day -Just a few of the 4,000.” Roger Litwiller Collection, Allen E. Singleton, RCNVR photo, courtesy Bruce Keir, RCNVR. (RTL-BK086) This photo and collection have been gathered from the crew […]
HMCS TRENTONIAN Shipmates
Three of HMCS TRENTONIAN’s sailors during escort operations in 1944, LS Ken McDonald (left), Secord (centre) and LS Aubrey Wells. Roger Litwiller Collection, Allen E. Singleton, RCNVR photo, courtesy Jack Harold, RCNVR. (RTL-JH063) If you enjoy the content I create and find value in the articles on this website, please feel free to click on […]
HMS TROLLOPE -Bermuda
HMS TROLLOPE, a Captain class frigate under going training in Bermuda in February 1944. Picture taken from HMCS TRENTONIAN. Roger Litwiller Collection, Allen E. Singleton, RCNVR photo, courtesy Jack Harold, RCNVR. (RTL-JH033) If you enjoy the content I create and find value in the articles on this website, please feel free to click on the […]
Birth of a Corvette
HMCS TRENTONIAN being launched on 1 September 1943 at Kingston Shipbuilding, Kingston, Ontario. Roger Litwiller Collection, courtesy Hank Winsor. (RTL-HW004) 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 right of the webpage and “Buy me […]
Wounded Sailer
The skipper of HMTS Monarch, Captain Arthur Troops is transferred to HMCS TRENTONIAN with a critical head injury. Troops’ ship, a cablelayer and TRENTONIAN were fired on by USS PLUNKETT on the night of 13 June 1944 while laying a communications cable to Normandy. The Canadian corvette was undamaged, while the cablelayer was severely damaged, […]
HMCS TRENTONIAN Sailors
Some of HMCS TRENTONIAN’s crew take a break from duties in Halifax. Pictured: OS John Holden, AB Walter Barber, AB Darcy Graham, AB Stanley Bennett, PO Richard Medhurst, AB Robert Gray, AB Gordon Simpson, Coder J. Roberts, AB Gordon Harley, AB A. Elslinger and Leading Stoker Francis Walsh. Roger Litwiller Collection, Allen E. Singleton, RCNVR […]
St. Lawrence Ice
With HMCS NORSYD directly ahead of HMCS TRENTONIAN and Icebreaker Earnest LaPointe leading, the two new RCN corvettes sail through the ice of the St. Lawrence River in route to Halifax in December 1943. Roger Litwiller Collection, Allen E. Singleton, RCNVR photo, courtesy Jack Harold, RCNVR. (RTL-JH048) If you enjoy the content I create and […]