Orca class Patrol Craft Training Vessel, PCT-58 Renard in transit from Victoria to CFB Esquimalt on 15 September 2019. Roger Litwiller Collection, courtesy Roger Litwiller. (RTL04921)
HMCS SASKATCHEWAN Boat Drill
HMCS SASKATCHEWAN conducts “man overboard” drills with the ships 27 foot whaler on the Pacific Ocean in 1965. Roger Litwiller Collection, courtesy Brian Rideout. (RTL-BR006)
The namesake of the class, HMCSubmarine Victoria undergoes an extended maintenance period alongside at HMC Dockyard in Esquimalt, BC. on 21 September 2019. HMCS REGINA is on the opposite side of the Jetty. Roger Litwiller Collection, courtesy Roger Litwiller. (RTL05293)
Orca’s and Frigates, Oh My!
HMCS Dockyard in Esquimalt on 19 September 2019. PCT-58 Renard is inboard and PCT-59 Wolf alongside with three more Orca’s are nested on the jetty. The Canadian Patrol Frigate, HMCS WINNIPEG takes on fuel at the fueling jetty. Roger Litwiller Collection, courtesy Roger Litwiller. (RTL05270)
RCN Tug Glendale
RCN Tug Glendale in transit from CFB Esquimalt to Victoria, BC. on 15 September 2019. Roger Litwiller Collection, courtesy Roger Litwiller. (RTL04916)
View from HMCS WHITEHORSE’s foc’s’le of the Esquimalt Graving Dock area on 19 September 2019. A Disney cruise ship is in the drydock under maintenance and the New Zealand Navy Frigate, HMNZS TE MANA is alongside undergoing a major refit. HMCS EDMONTON is outboard of WHITEHORSE. Roger Litwiller Collection, courtesy Roger Litwiller. (RTL05072)
HMCS MACKENZIE
HMCS MACKENZIE’s bow lifts out of the Pacific Ocean as the destroyer conducts a Jack-Stay transfer with its sister, HMCS SASKATCHEWAN during the Far East Cruise in 1965. Roger Litwiller Collection, courtesy Brian Rideout. (RTL-BR011)
HMCS BRANDON
HMCS BRANDON alongside the jetty at HMC Dockyard Esquimalt on 21 September 2019. The MCDV is outboard, with HMCS NANAIMO inboard. Roger Litwiller Collection, courtesy Roger Litwiller. (RTL05298)
HMCS VICTORIA
HMCS VICTORIA is undergoing an extended maintenance period in HMC Dockyard Esquimalt on 19 September 2019. HMCS REGINA is in the background. Roger Litwiller Collection, courtesy Roger Litwiller. (RTL05109)
PCT-58 Renard
Orca class Patrol Craft Training Vessel, PCT-58 Renard in transit from Victoria to CFB Esquimalt on 15 September 2019. Roger Litwiller Collection, courtesy Roger Litwiller. (RTL04931)