While transiting Iroquois Lock in the St. Lawrence Seaway, Grace Aikens in HMCS KINGSTON peers through the binoculars at her parents holding a welcome banner on 27 June 2016. Roger Litwiller Collection, courtesy Roger Litwiller. (RTL78836)
Clearing Ice and Snow
Sailors clear snow and ice from HMCS MATAPEDIA’s forward gun deck in early spring 1941 at Quebec City. The shield for the 4 inch gun has not yet been installed. Roger Litwiller Collection, courtesy William Belling, RCNVR. (RTL-WB063)
A RCN Sailor
Serving in HMCS TRENTONIAN, AB Joe King, RCNVR, from Newfoundland, had been a fisherman before the war. The heavy oil skin coat he is wearing was to protect our sailors from the raging North Atlantic. Roger Litwiller Collection, Allen E. Singleton, RCNVR photo, courtesy Bruce Keir, RCNVR. (RTL-BK051)
HMCS HALIFAX -HCM/FELEX
HMCS HALIFAX completing her Halifax-class Modernization/Frigate Life Extension (HCM/FELEX) project, in Halifax, 1 July 2012. Roger Litwiller Litwiller Collection, courtesy Roger Litwiller. (RTL74900)
HMCS WASAGA’s Bridge Iced
With only a single window cleared on HMCS WASAGA’s bridge and her upper-works encased in ice, the minesweeper steams off Halifax in 1944. Roger Litwiller Collection, courtesy Ross Milligan, RCNVR. (RTL-REM076)
HMCS OJIBWA
With only a few inches of clearance on either side of the barge, Florence M. pulls OJIBWA through the Iroquois lock. Roger Litwiller Collection, courtesy Roger Litwiller. (RTL33788)
TRENTONIAN’s Gun Crew
LS Gordon Harley (Hamilton), AB Arthur Slater (Winnipeg) and AB Stan Bennett (Conception Bay), HMCS TRENTONIAN’s after 2 pounder Pom-Pom gun crew in 1944. Roger Litwiller Collection, Allen E. Singleton, RCNVR photo, courtesy Bruce Keir, RCNVR. (RTL-BK159)
HMC Dockyard
Alongside in HMC Dockyard, HMCS TORONTO with former HMCS ATHABASKAN. On the left is the stern of HNoMS ROALD AMUNDSEN, visiting from Norway on 12 March 2018. Roger Litwiller Collection, courtesy Roger Litwiller. (RTL26560)
HMCS KOOTENAY (1st)
HMCS KOOTENAY (1st), River class destroyer alongside HMCS ARVIDA in 1943. As a member of Canadian Escort Group-C5, KOOTENAY wears the Barber Pole Band on her funnel with a Griffin below. Roger Litwiller Collection, courtesy Howard Abbott, RCNVR. (RTL-HA059)
RCN Piasecki HUP-3
RCN Piasecki HUP-3 Helicopter at the Shearwater Aviation Museum in CFB Shearwater, NS. The RCN operated three of these helicopters from 11 May 1954 to 28 February 1964. Primary service was from HMCS LABRADOR, supplying the DEW Line and some search and rescue work, based out of HMCS SHEARWATER on the East Coast and Patricia […]