HMCS REGINA’s forward BOFORS 57 mm MK3 Naval Automatic Gun receives some maintenance after the turret has been painted, on 19 September 2019 in HMC Dockyard in Esquimalt, BC. The frigate is receiving its 75th Anniversary Battle of the Atlantic camouflage paint scheme. In tribute to HMCS REGINA’s (1st) the ships company has adopted the […]
HMS PHILANTE, Armed Yacht
Admiral Sir Max Horton (RN) CaptainD, Armed yacht, HMS PHILANTE at Larne, Scotland in August 1943. PHILANTE was purchased from the Sopwith family and converted for the Royal Navy, initially escorting seven convoys across the Atlantic, then in 1943 she joined the Western Approaches Command as part of the Tactical Unit, responsible for training escort […]
HMCS KINGSTON at Iroquois Lock
HMCS KINGSTON transit Iroquois Lock on the St. Lawrence Seaway as she enters the Great Lakes for a tour on 27 June 2016. Roger Litwiller Collection, courtesy Roger Litwiller. (RTL78831)
HMCS WASAGA in Drydock
HMCS WASAGA hull has been given a fresh coat of anti-fouling paint while on the marine slip in Dartmouth in 1943. A great photo of the Bangor class minesweepers twin screws. WASAGA’s starboard propeller seems to have been marked for HMCS GRANDMERE. Roger Litwiller Collection, courtesy Ross Milligan, RCNR. (RTL-REM093)
HMCS TRENTONIAN -Quebec City
Quebec City is hit by a early winter storm, blanketing HMCS TRENTONIAN in snow, in December 1943. Due to a construction problem in the corvettes ventilating system, it is as cold in the ship as it is outside. Roger Litwiller Collection, courtesy Jack Harold, RCNVR. (RTL-JH052)
RCN Hawker Sea Fury FBII
Hawker Sea Fury FBII on display at the Naval Museum of Alberta in The Military Museums at Calgary. Seventy-five Sea Fury Fighters flew with the RCN many from the aircraft carrier HMCS MAGNIFICENT. Roger Litwiller Collection, courtesy Roger Litwiller. (RTL20898)
Clearing Ice HMCS WASAGA
Looking more like an ice castle, three of HMCS WASAGA’s ship’s company ready to clear ice from the minesweeper’s bridge and foc’s’le, off Halifax in 1944. Roger Litwiller Collection, courtesy Ross Milligan, RCNR. (RTL-REM077)
HMCS VILLE DE QUEBEC -Harbour Stations
HMCS VILLE DE QUEBEC’s Quarterdeck Party forms up, in preparation for entering Halifax Harbour after the Battle of Atlantic Ceremony on 5 May 2019. RCN Tug GLENBROOK follows astern. Roger Litwiller Collection, courtesy Roger Litwiller. (RTL-59658)
South Atlantic Convoy
Column of merchant ships in convoy taken from convoy escort, HMCS ARVIDA in the South Atlantic in 1943. Roger Litwiller Collection, courtesy Howard Abbott, RCNVR. (RTL-HA063)
HMCS TRENTONIAN Departs for the UK
Four of HMCS TRENTONIAN’s ship’s company pose for a photo, with the Nova Scotia coast disappears behind them. TRENTONIAN departed Halifax for operations in the UK on 23 April 1944. Pictured: OS Walter Barber, AB Jim Rickard, AB Thomas Williams and an unidentified ship mate. Roger Litwiller Collection, Allen E. Singleton, RCNVR photo, courtesy Tom […]