HMCS CHARLOTTETOWN passes the stern of HMCS SACKVILLE while underway in Halifax Harbour on 7 July 2003. Roger Litwiller Collection, courtesy Roger Litwiller. (100_1593)
HMCS ST. JOHN`S
HMCS ST. JOHN’S sits on the Syncrolift at Fleet Maintenance Facility CAPE SCOTT in Halifax on 2 September 2018. Roger Litwiller Collection, courtesy Roger Litwiller. (RTL98647)
HMCS NAPANEE
HMCS NAPANEE still retains her mine sweeping gear, after having her foc’s’cle extended in 1943, she has been painted in the Western Isles camouflage scheme. Roger Litwiller Collection, courtesy Robert F.D. Hall. (RTL-RH002) This photo has been used by Roger Litwiller to create the book, Warships Of The Bay Of Quinte, published by Dundurn Publishing […]
Mulberry Pierhead
Part of the Mulberry Harbour known as a Spud Pierhead is being towed to Normandy, under the close escort of HMCS TRENTONIAN, in June 1944. The four pilings were secured to the sea bed allowing the deck to rise and fall with the tides, the merchant ships and LST’s could then discharge their cargo onto […]
HMC Dockyard -Esquimalt
HMC Dockyard, Esquimalt is home to Canada’s West Coast Fleet and is buzzing with activity on 21 September 2019. In this photo are Kingston class MCDV’s EDMONTON and WHITHORSE, Victoria class submarines CHICOUTIMI and VICTORIA. On the far side of the jetty is Halifax class frigates, REGINA alongside and two others behind. Roger Litwiller Collection, […]
HMCS TRENTONIAN Sailors
Three of HMCS TRENTONIAN’s shipmates, LS Gordon Harley (left), AB Robert Gray (centre) and AB Frank Barron (right), ready for shore leave in Milford Haven, 1944. Roger Litwiller Collection, Allen E. Singleton, RCNVR photo, courtesy Tom Farrell, RCNVR. (RTL-TF083)
HMCS SASKATCHEWAN Gunnery Practice
HMCS SASKATCHEWAN firing it’s after 3 inch 50 calibre guns during a gunnery exercise in 1965. Roger Litwiller Collection, courtesy Brian Rideout. (RTL-BR003)
HMCS TRILLIUM
HMCS TRILLIUM, Flower class corvette off Pictou, NS. Roger Litwiller Collection, courtesy Ross Milligan, RCN. (RTL-REM013)
OJIBWA at Iroquois Lock
HMCS OJIBWA under tow by Florence M. enters the Iroquois Lock on the St. Lawrence Seaway on 4 June 2012. The former, Royal Canadian Navy submarine was towed from Halifax to Hamilton on Lake Ontario, where she underwent modifications to become a museum ship located at Port Burwell on Lake Erie. Roger Litwiller Collection, photo […]
Merchant Ship at Corner Brook
Merchant ship alongside the Bowater Pulp and Paper Mill in Corner Brook, NF in 1943, photo taken from HMCS WASAGA’s stern (foreground). Ross Milligan wrote SS South Brook on the face of the photo and SS North Brook on the back. Roger Litwiller Collection, courtesy Ross Milligan, RCNR. (RTL-RM286)