HMCS IROQUOIS with HMShips MAURITIUS and URSA steaming at 32 knots and laying smoke screen to evade fire from shore batteries off the west coast of France on 22 August 1944. IROQUOIS and MAURITIUS had been straddled by shells from the Gironde Shore Battery. Roger Litwiller Collection, Lynford Bourne, RCNVR photo, courtesy Battle of Atlantic […]
USS LST-46
American Tank Landing Ship, USS LST-46, off Normandy June 1944. Photo taken from HMCS WASAGA. Roger Litwiller Collection, courtesy Ross Milligan, RCNR. (RTL-REM142)
Mine “Sleeping”
More resembling “mine sleeping,” sailors from HMCS WASAGA take a break during minesweeping operations off the coast of France in 1944. Roger Litwiller Collection, courtesy Ross Milligan, RCNR. (RTL-REM116)
HMS VICTORY -Portsmouth
HMCS TRENTONIAN delivered wounded sailors from the cable layer HMTS MONARCH, at Portsmouth on 13 June 1944. The corvette was secured close to Nelson’s flagship HMS VICTORY. Roger Litwiller Collection, Allen E. Singleton, RCNVR photo, courtesy Bruce Keir, RCNVR. (RTL-BK106)
Mulberry Pierhead
Part of the Mulberry Harbour known as a Spud Pierhead is being towed to Normandy, under the close escort of HMCS TRENTONIAN, in June 1944. The four pilings were secured to the sea bed allowing the deck to rise and fall with the tides, the merchant ships and LST’s could then discharge their cargo onto […]
HMCS HAIDA Flagship Ceremony
Combined Naval Band from HMCS STAR and HMCS YORK during the ceremony on 26 May 2018 in Hamilton, ON dedicating HMCS HAIDA as the Ceremonial Flagship of the Royal Canadian Navy. Roger Litwiller Collection, courtesy of Roger Litwiller. (RTL67566)
“Needles Parade” HMCS TRENTONIAN
The entire ship’s company of HMCS TRENTONIAN is lined up in September 1944, for “needles parade” prior to steaming to Cherbourg, and their first shore leave in France. LS Aubrey Wells (right) is in charge of the group. Roger Litwiller Collection, Allen E. Singleton, RCNVR photo, courtesy Bruce Keir, RCNVR. (RTL-BK168) This photo and collection […]
RN Landing Ship
RN Landing Ship off Normandy in June 1944. Photo taken from HMCS WASAGA. Roger Litwiller Collection, courtesy Ross Milligan, RCNR. (RTL-REM143)
HMS CRANE
HMS CRANE, a modified Black Swan class sloop at anchor in Portsmouth, July 1944. Photo taken from HMCS TRENTONIAN. Roger Litwiller Collection, Allen E. Singleton, RCNVR photo, courtesy Bruce Keir, RCNVR. (RTL-BK111)
HMS ROBERTS -Normandy
HMS ROBERTS, classed as a Monitor, passing HMCS TRENTONIAN on 7 June 1944 off the Normandy Beachhead. She has the size of a cruiser but mounted with a battleship turret. She is designed to anchor off shore and bombard enemy positions in shore with her two heavy 15 inch guns. Anchored close, the concussion from […]