With the port side of her hull sliced open by the danlayer HMS SURSAY, HMCS WASAGA’s damage control parties used all material at hand to brace the minesweepers hull on 4 April 1945. Heavy shoring for hull support and tables to increase freeboard. Roger Litwiller Collection, courtesy Ross Milligan, RCNR. (RTL-REM131)
Memorial Day Newfoundland
HMCS WASAGA’s ships company marches in the Memorial Day Parade in Curling NF on 4 July 1943. Memorial Day commemorates the sacrifice of the 1st Newfoundland Regiment during WWI at the Battle of Beaumont-Hamel and held on the anniversary of the first day of the Battle of the Somme. Curling is now a suburb of […]
HMCS WASAGA Minesweeping Gear
HMCS WASAGA’s minesweeping gear in 1944. Roger Litwiller Collection, courtesy Ross Milligan, RCNR. (RTL-REM118)
HMCS WASAGA Out of the Water
HMCS WASAGA, Bangor class minesweeper, on the marine railway at Dartmouth, NS in 1943. Roger Litwiller Collection, courtesy Ross Milligan, RCNR. (RTL-REM091)
HMCS WASAGA Shipmates
HMCS WASAGA shipmates, Ross Milligan, sitting on gun barrel, with Wm. Weaver in St. John’s, Newfoundland in 1942. Roger Litwiller Collection, courtesy Ross Milligan, RCNR. (RTL-REM087)
Stern View HMCS WASAGA
Aft view of HMCS WASAGA in 1942 in Pictou, NS. Her after pair of twin 0.5 inch machine guns are easily seen. Roger Litwiller Collection, courtesy Ross Milligan, RCNR. (RTL-REM029)
HMCS WASAGA -Bum Boats
Usually referred to as “Bum Boats” by sailors, these peddlers in Horta in the Azores have come alongside HMCS WASAGA to sell their wares to the sailors in February 1944. Roger Litwiller Collection, courtesy Ross Milligan, RCNR. (RTL-REM150)
Hospital Ship
Unidentified Hospital Ship, possibly in the English Channel 1944. Photo taken from HMCS MAYFLOWER. Roger Litwiller Collection, courtesy Ralph O’Brien, RCNVR. (RTL-ROB020)
Three Great Lake Sailors
Three Lake sailors in HMCS WASAGA, Lt to Rt, Wm. Black, Ross Milligan and Wm. Weaver in 1942 off Newfoundland. All three served in Great Lake ships prior to the war. The merchant ship in the background is the Laker SS Drumahoe. Roger Litwiller Collection, courtesy Ross Milligan, RCNVR. (RTL-REM057)
RCN Sailors St. John’s, NF
Lew Evans and Lew Theriault from HMCS WASAGA, skating at Quiddy Vidi Lake in St. John’s, NF in January 1943. Roger Litwiller Collection, courtesy Ross Milligan, RCNR. (RTL-RM320)