Assisted by RCN tug Glenevis, HMCS HARRY DEWOLF approaches the jetty in HMC Dockyard, Halifax on 16 December 2021. The AOPS will secure astern of it’s sister the future HMCS MARGARET BROOKE (431). Roger Litwiller Collection, courtesy Roger Litwiller. (RL210089)
Sentry Duty HMCS WASAGA
RCN Sailor Mackay stands sentry duty in HMCS WASAGA in 1942. Roger Litwiller Collection, courtesy Ross Milligan, RCNR. (RTL-REM024)
ex-HMCS IROQUOIS
Ex-HMCS IROQUOIS, recently paid-off, sits in HMC Dockyard in Halifax waiting her fate on 5 September 2015. Roger Litwiller collection, courtesy Roger Litwiller. (RTL53640)
Shoreleave Cherbourg, FR
Sailors from HMCS TRENTONIAN pose in front of one of the many boarded up business while on shoreleave in Cherbourg, France in October 1944. The strategic, French port city had just been liberated and the sailors were instructed to remain in large groups as German soldiers were still be found in the city. Roger Litwiller […]
RCN Helicopters
Four Generations of RCN helicopters on display at the Canadian Aviation Museum in Ottawa, ON. Left to Right; Bell HTL-6, Sikorsky HO4S, Sikorsky CH-124 Sea King and Piasecki HUP-3. Roger Litwiller Collection, courtesy Roger Litwiller. (RTL02156)
HMCS MATAPEDIA Nameboard
Sailors from HMCS MATAPEDIA with the corvette’s nameboard. Identified as, Sloan from Montreal, Hitchcock from Vancouver, Fricke from Cape Breton and T. Lawless from Newfoundland. Roger Litwiller Collection, courtesy William Belling, RCNVR. (RTL-WB010)
HMCS HAIDA Dressed Overall
HMCS HAIDA is dressed overall for dedication as the Royal Canadian Navy’s Ceremonial Flagship on 26 May 2018 in Hamilton, ON. Roger Litwiller Collection, courtesy of Roger Litwiller. (RTL67597)
Painting HMS PUNCHER’s Anchor
HMS PUNCHER at Vancouver to be finished to RN standards, February to May 1944. A lone sailor is over the side in a bosun’s chair, painting the escort aircraft carrier’s anchor, takes a close look at his spotters above on the foc’s’le. HMS PUNCHER was one of two escort aircraft carriers manned by the RCN […]
Ready for Home
Sailors in HMCS SASKATCHEWAN’s ships company wait on the upper deck as their ship returns to Esquimalt at the end of the Far East Cruise in 1965. Roger Litwiller Collection, courtesy Brian Rideout. RTL-BR061)
RCN Corvette Sailor
RCN sailor from HMCS TRENTONIAN in 1944. Roger Litwiller Collection, courtesy of Jack Harold, RCNVR. (RTL-JH076)