HMCS SKEENA steams past the US Navy battleship, USS ALABAMA in July 1943. Possibly in Iceland or Scapa Flow. Roger Litwiller Collection, courtesy William Belling, RCNVR. (RTL-WB092)
HMCS MONTREAL
HMCS MONTREAL on the sycrolift undergoing maintenance on 6 December 2021. Roger Litwiller Collection, courtesy Roger Litwiller. (RTL00579)
MAC Ship in Convoy
Merchant Aircraft Carrier or MAC ship in convoy in 1943, photo taken from HMCS ARVIDA. MAC ships were merchant tankers converted with a flight deck, island super structure and could carry three to four aircraft on deck. These ships still carried material in their holds and therefore there were no interior hangars. The advantage was […]
HMCS PRESERVER
HMCS PRESERVER sits along the jetty at HMC Dockyard on a foggy East Coast morning in Halifax, 26 June 2011. Roger Litwiller Collection, courtesy Roger Litwiller. (RTL60985)
HMCS SUDBURY
HMCS SUDBURY, short foc’s’le corvette, floating in the fresh water of Lake Ontario after her launch on 31 May 1941 at Kingston Shipbuilding Yards, Kingston, Ontario. Roger Litwiller Collection, courtesy Hank Winsor. (RTL-HW010)
HMCShips IROQUOIS and GOOSE BAY
A Glen class tug moves into position to assist HMCS IROQUOIS as the destroyer returns to HMC Dockyard in Halifax on 6 July 2012. HMCS GOOSE BAY is astern of the destroyer. Roger Litwiller Collection, photo courtesy Roger Litwiller (RTL64623)
HMCS TRENTONIAN Football Team
HMCS TRENTONIAN’s football team. Warrant Engineer Hindle was an avid football player and fan. He organized a team from the ship to take on the local team in Milford Haven. The crew reports, they played as good as they looked. Roger Litwiller Collection, Allen E. Singleton, RCNVR photo, courtesy Douglas Campbell, RCNVR. (RTL-DC059) This photo […]
HMCS SACKVILLE Dressed
Canada’s Naval Memorial, HMCS SACKVILLE was moved alongside NB Jetty in HMC Dockyard, Halifax for the Commander Royal Canadian Navy Change-of-Command Ceremony on 12 June 2019. The historic WWII corvette’s rails were manned by the Command Teams from the RCN ships in the harbour. Roger Litwiller Collection, courtesy Roger Litwiller. (RTL02079)
Fleet of Corvettes -Halifax
View of Halifax from HMCS SUDBURY’s port bridge wing (left side of photo) looking aft. A total of eight corvettes are nested together in this picture from 1942. Roger Litwiller Collection, courtesy Ross Milligan, RCNR. (RTL-REM021)
HMCS GOOSE BAY
HMCS GOOSE BAY transits Iroquois Lock as she enters the Great Lakes for a tour on 27 June 2016. Roger Litwiller Collection, courtesy Roger Litwiller. (RTL78858)