Excellent photo of HMCS CAMROSE, Flower class corvette. The picture clearly shows the short foc’s’le construction of the early corvettes with the main mast before the bridge. Unlike the RN’s corvettes the after gun tub is placed further aft in the RCN corvettes. Roger Litwiller Collection, courtesy Raymond Leslie Reid, RCNVR. (RTL-RLR022)
HMCS PRESERVER
HMCS PRESERVER sits along the jetty at HMC Dockyard in Halifax, 26 June 2011. Roger Litwiller Collection, Photo by Roger Litwiller. (RTL60983)
HMCS MAYFLOWER’s Pom-Pom
HMCS MAYFLOWER’s aft Pom-Pom with lookout in the searchlight tub above. Unknown date/time. Roger Litwiller Collection, courtesy Ralph O’Brien, RCNVR. (RTL-ROB017)
HMCS HAIDA Forward Guns
Forward A and B guns on HMCS HAIDA on 8 July 2016. HMCS HAIDA is now a National Historic site and preserved as a museum ship by Parks Canada in Hamilton, ON. Roger Litwiller Collection, courtesy Roger Litwiller. (RTL89877)
HMCS TRENTONIAN at Fish Dock
Several sailors from HMCS TRENTONIAN, including a Toronto Maple Leafs fan, take a break during boiler cleaning in Milford Haven, late August 1944. The ship is secured to the wall at the fish processing dock, a fishing boat is just ahead of the ship. The fish was unloaded from the boats, heads, tails and guts […]
HMCS GOOSE BAY
HMCS GOOSE BAY alongside in HMC Dockyard in Halifax on 6 March 2018. Photo taken from MV ASTERIX. Roger Litwiller Collection, courtesy Roger Litwiller. (RTL66244)
Radar Towers over Dover
The white cliffs of Dover as seen from HMCS TRENTONIAN. The haziness of the photo is due to the lingering smoke screen. Above the cliffs to the left of the photo, radar towers can be seen in the distance and flying above the breakwater are barrage balloons. Roger Litwiller Collection, Allen E. Singleton, RCNVR photo, […]
HMCS WINDSOR
HMCS WINDSOR alongside at Canada’s East Coast Dockyard in Halifax during an extended refit on 1 July 2012. Roger Litwiller Collection, courtesy Roger Litwiller. (RTL14137)
HMS PUNCHER -Deck Crash
A Barracuda nosed into HMS PUNCHER’s flight deck, the rear gunner was slightly injured according to Howard Abbott, the angle of the plane made rescue difficult. Puncher was manned and operated by the Royal Canadian Navy, but retained her HMS designation under the terms of the “Lend/Lease” Agreement, and considered Canada’s second aircraft carrier after […]
Nested MCDV’s
Four MCDV’s nested alongside the jetty at HMC Dockyard in Esquimalt, BC on 21 September 2019. HMCShips Brandon (710) is outboard with NANAIMO behind and EDMONTON outboard with WHITEHORSE alongside. Behind the jetty, construction is well underway for a new jetty in the dockyard. Roger Litwiller Collection, courtesy Roger Litwiller. (RTL05296)