HMCS WASAGA’s forward gun is covered in ice , off Halifax in 1944. Roger Litwiller Collection, courtesy Ross Milligan, RCNR. (RTL-REM075)
PRINZ EUGEN Arriving Wilhelmshaven, Germany
Admiral Hipper class cruiser, PRINZ EUGEN arriving at the locks at Wilhelmshaven, Germany from HMCS IROQUOIS (foreground) on 28 May 1945. The Canadian destroyer was part of the Allied force, escorting PRINZ EUGEN and NURMBURG from Copenhagen, Denmark to Wilhelmshaven, Germany for the formal surrender, leaving Copenhagen the previous day. Roger Litwiller Collection, Lynford Bourne, […]
HMCS WASAGA Collision
With the port side of her hull sliced open by the danlayer HMS SURSAY, HMCS WASAGA’s damage control parties used all material at hand to brace the minesweepers hull on 4 April 1945. Heavy shoring for hull support and tables to increase freeboard. Roger Litwiller Collection, courtesy Ross Milligan, RCNR. (RTL-REM131)
HMCS PORTAGE Sailor
Unidentified RCN sailor in HMCS PORTAGE in early 1944. Roger Litwiller Collection, courtesy Allan “Bud” Bruder, RCNVR. (RTL-AB010)
HMCS WASAGA Minesweeping Gear
HMCS WASAGA’s minesweeping gear in 1944. Roger Litwiller Collection, courtesy Ross Milligan, RCNR. (RTL-REM118)
HMCS WASAGA Out of the Water
HMCS WASAGA, Bangor class minesweeper, on the marine railway at Dartmouth, NS in 1943. Roger Litwiller Collection, courtesy Ross Milligan, RCNR. (RTL-REM091)
HMCS TRENTONIAN anchored Milford Haven
HMCS TRENTONIAN freshly painted and anchored in Milford Haven, UK with a destroyer sailing up from astern in July 1944. The corvette’s davits have been swung out and the ships whaler has been lowered. Roger Litwiller Collection, Allen E. Singleton, RCNVR photo, courtesy Tom Farrell, RCNVR. (RTL-TF033)
RCN Sailor -HMCS IROQUOIS
Unidentified RCN sailor in HMCS IROQUOIS. Date Location unknown, “The Some” written on back of photo. Roger Litwiller Collection, Lynford Bourne, RCNVR photo, courtesy Battle of Atlantic Place. (RTL-LRB014)
Fire Fly’s over HMS PUNCHER
Canadian manned aircraft carrier HMS PUNCHER’s first squadron of Fire Fly’s arrive over the carrier in preparations for operations in the Pacific after VE day. Roger Litwiller Collection, courtesy Howard Abbott, RCNVR. (RTL-HA034)
HMCS WASAGA Shipmates
HMCS WASAGA shipmates, Ross Milligan, sitting on gun barrel, with Wm. Weaver in St. John’s, Newfoundland in 1942. Roger Litwiller Collection, courtesy Ross Milligan, RCNR. (RTL-REM087)