HMCS TORONTO passes MV Sichem Defiance after clearing Iroquois Lock on 8 July 2017. Roger Litwiller Collection, courtesy Roger Litwiller (82358)
HMS PUNCHER -Arctic Ops
HMS BIRMINGHAM and another CVE, possibly HMS TRUMPETER sail in formation with Canadian manned escort aircraft carrier, HMS PUNCHER (foreground) in April 1945. HMS PUNCHER was attached to Operation NEWMARKET in the Arctic Ocean. The objective was to attack, U-Boat depot ships at Kilbotn, Norway. Roger Litwiller Collection, courtesy Howard Abbott, RCNVR. (RTL-HA046)
HMCS ORIOLE’s Badge
HMCS ORIOLE’s steering control box with her ship’s badge. ORIOLE was commissioned into the RCN in 1952 and is the only sailing vessel and oldest ship in the Canadian Navy. Photo taken in Halifax on 28 July 2017. Roger Litwiller Collection, courtesy Roger Litwiller. (RTL83298)
HMCS TRENTONIAN
Starboard side view of HMCS TRENTONIAN newly painted in the Western Approaches Disruptive Camouflage scheme in August 1944. Roger Litwiller Collection, Allen E. Singleton, RCNVR, courtesy of Tom Farrell, RCNVR. (RTL-TF035)
HMCS WASAGA in Refit
Bangor class minesweeper, HMCS WASAGA in drydock in Dartmouth, NS sometime in 1943. Roger Litwiller Collection, courtesy Ross Milligan, RCNR. (RTL-REM089)
HMCS HAIDA -RCN Flagship
The Canadian Naval Ensign flies once again aboard HMCS HAIDA following the designation of the Tribal class destroyer as the Ceremonial Flagship of the RCN in a ceremony on 26 May 2018 in Hamilton, ON. Roger Litwiller Collection, courtesy of Roger Litwiller. (RTL67606)
RCAF T-133 Silver Star
RCAF T-133 Silver Star located at the Air Park at the Shearwater Aviation Museum on 6 December 2021. Roger Litwiller Collection, courtesy Roger Litwiller. (RTL00640)
HMS PEVENSEY CASTLE
HMS PEVENSEY CASTLE, Castle class corvette comes alongside a burning freighter, the MV Cromarty to assist with firefighting. HMCS TRENTONIAN (foreground) has already gone alongside the burning ship and transferred over firefighting equipment and has now started an Asdic sweep around the freighter and Castle class corvette in January 1945 in the Irish Sea. Roger […]
Earnest Lapointe and BRAS D’OR
Former Canadian Coast Guard icebreaker CCGS Earnest Lapointe and former HMCS BRAS D’OR at Museum Marine du Quebec. Roger Litwiller Collection, courtesy Roger Litwiller. (RTL58194)
HMCS QUINTE Refloated
HMCS QUINTE has been patched and refloated after striking Horse Head Rock in Cape Breton, ten days earlier on 30 November 1942. She will be towed to the wall of St. Peter’s Canal to stabilize the ship. QUINTE’s stretch of bad luck is not quite over as she will roll onto her beam ends and […]