Full bow view of MV ASTERIX in Champlain Dry Dock, the largest dry dock in Canada at Davie Shipyard in Levis, PQ. Photo taken during the christening ceremony on 20 July 2017. Roger Litwiller Collection, courtesy Roger Litwiller. (RTL-IMG_3018)
Hospital Ship
Unknown Hospital Ship, WWII, 1942. Photo taken from HMCS WASAGA. Roger Litwiller Collection, courtesy Ross Milligan, RCNR. (RTL-REM069)
HMCS TRENTONIAN Communications Division
HMCS TRENTONIAN’s Communications Division, 1944. Left to Right, Top row: Vincent Hadley (Prince Albert, SK), Peter Meyer (Regina SK.). Centre Row: John McKay (Terrebonne, PQ.), Jack Straw (Hamilton, ON.), John Manson (Winnipeg, MB.), Tom Farrell (Montreal, PQ.). Bottom Row: Jack McIver (Winnipeg, MB), Philip Kevins (Verdun, PQ.), Edmund Poulin (Ottawa, ON.) and Jack Harold (Aurora, […]
Roll Along Wavy Navy, Roll Along
Excellent photo of how much a corvette could roll on the North Atlantic. The photo does not state the ship’s name, but the donor did serve in the corvette’s HMC Ships MORDEN, KITCHENER and SHAWINIGAN. Roger Litwiller Collection, courtesy Raymond Leslie Ried, RCNVR. (RTL-RLR012)
HMCS SKEENA
HMCS SKEENA has dressed ship and is very pusser with her brightly coloured camouflage and signal flags flying in July 1944. SKEENA’s “B” turret and gun have been removed and a hedgehog anti-submarine mortar has been mounted in its place. Photo taken from HMCS TRENTONIAN, 1 July 1944. Roger Litwiller Collection, Allen E. Singleton, RCNVR […]
A Sailor In His Mick
Wm Black from HMCS WASAGA still preferred a nap in his hammock compared to the beds provided at the HMC NAVAL CAMP in 1942. The rest camp was provided for sailors of the escort groups to have a break away from shipboard routine and was located seven miles outside of St. John’s, NF. Roger Litwiller […]
French Corvette Sailor
Caption on back of photo, “In Scotland with French Sailor.” Roger Litwiller Collection, courtesy Ralph O’Brien, RCNVR. (RTL -ROB077)
HMCS GOOSE BAY
HMCS GOOSE BAY in St. John’s, Newfoundland along the wall at the Naval Reserve Unit HMCS CABOT, to make repairs following a storm while on patrol off Canada’s east coast, 22 June 2011. Roger Litwiller Collection, courtesy Roger Litwiller. (RTL20903)
HMCS MAYFLOWER
HMCS MAYFLOWER dropping a depth charge. Roger Litwiller Collection, courtesy Ralph O’Brien, RCNVR. (RTL-ROB009)
CARIBOPS 1981
View of part of the RCN fleet, from HMCS OTTAWA while sailing to the Caribbean in January 1981. Note: Scanned from original 110 Negative. Roger Litwiller Collection, courtesy Roger Litwiller. (RTL-RTL300416014)