A CP-140 Aurora from 415 Squadron RCAF conducts a flypast over HMCS HARRY DEWOLF off Peggy’s Cove, Nova Scotia on 15 December 2021. The Arctic and Offshore Patrol Ship was homeward bound after circumnavigating North America. Roger Litwiller Collection, courtesy Roger Litwiller. (RTL01099) If you enjoy the content I create and find value in the […]
HMCS MAYFLOWER Depth Charges
A sailor from HMCS MAYFLOWER beside the port side waist Depth Charge Throwers. Roger Litwiller Collection, courtesy Ralph O’Brien, RCNVR. (RTL -ROB016) If you enjoy the content I create and find value in the articles on this website, please feel free to click on the coffee icon on the bottom right of the webpage and […]
HMS TROLLOPE -Bermuda
HMS TROLLOPE, a Captain class frigate under going training in Bermuda in February 1944. Picture taken from HMCS TRENTONIAN. Roger Litwiller Collection, Allen E. Singleton, RCNVR photo, courtesy Jack Harold, RCNVR. (RTL-JH033) If you enjoy the content I create and find value in the articles on this website, please feel free to click on the […]
Birth of a Corvette
HMCS TRENTONIAN being launched on 1 September 1943 at Kingston Shipbuilding, Kingston, Ontario. Roger Litwiller Collection, courtesy Hank Winsor. (RTL-HW004) If you enjoy the content I create and find value in the articles on this website, please feel free to click on the coffee icon on the bottom right of the webpage and “Buy me […]
North Atlantic Convoy
Convoy of merchant ships in the North Atlantic in June 1943, with a Merchant Aircraft Carrier (MAC ship). Photo taken from Canadian corvette HMCS ARVIDA.. Roger Litwiller Collection, courtesy Howard Abbott, RCNVR. (RTL-HA071) If you enjoy the content I create and find value in the articles on this website, please feel free to click on […]
RCN Invades Coney Island
Several of HMS PUNCHER’s sailors enjoy shore leave at New York’s famous Coney Island, including Howard Abbott in the front passenger seat in 1944. PUNCHER was an escort aircraft carrier, manned by Canadian sailors during WWII. Roger Litwiller Collection, courtesy Howard Abbott, RCNVR. (RTL-HA111) If you enjoy the content I create and find value in […]
HMCS MAYFLOWER at Sea
The corvette, HMCS MAYFLOWER at sea. The photo is taken from the after part of the ship looking forward and shows her Pom-Pom gun mounted midships as compared to further aft in corvettes built later. Roger Litwiller Collection, courtesy Ralph O’Brien, RCNVR. (RTL -ROB022) If you enjoy the content I create and find value in […]
HMCS SUDBURY
HMCS SUDBURY, Flower class corvette is ready for launching on 31 May 1941 at Kingston Shipbuilding Yards, Kingston, Ontario. Roger Litwiller Collection, photo courtesy Hank Winsor. (RTL-HW009) If you enjoy the content I create and find value in the articles on this website, please feel free to click on the coffee icon on the bottom […]
HMCS QUINTE Beached
HMCS QUINTE, partially submerged in St. Peter’s Bay, Cape Breton, after striking Horse Head Shoal on 30 November, 1942. Franklin Marine re-floated the minesweeper a few days later and towed QUINTE to the wall at St. Peter’s canal to continue salvage operations. Unexpectedly she then capsized in St. Peters Canal, laying on her beam ends, […]
HMCS TRENTONIAN Sailors
Some of HMCS TRENTONIAN’s crew take a break from duties in Halifax. Pictured: OS John Holden, AB Walter Barber, AB Darcy Graham, AB Stanley Bennett, PO Richard Medhurst, AB Robert Gray, AB Gordon Simpson, Coder J. Roberts, AB Gordon Harley, AB A. Elslinger and Leading Stoker Francis Walsh. Roger Litwiller Collection, Allen E. Singleton, RCNVR […]