Three of HMCS TRENTONIAN’s shipmates, LS Gordon Harley (left), AB Robert Gray (centre) and AB Frank Barron (right), ready for shore leave in Milford Haven, 1944. Roger Litwiller Collection, Allen E. Singleton, RCNVR photo, courtesy Tom Farrell, RCNVR. (RTL-TF083)
HMCS SASKATCHEWAN Gunnery Practice
HMCS SASKATCHEWAN firing it’s after 3 inch 50 calibre guns during a gunnery exercise in 1965. Roger Litwiller Collection, courtesy Brian Rideout. (RTL-BR003)
HMCS TRILLIUM
HMCS TRILLIUM, Flower class corvette off Pictou, NS. Roger Litwiller Collection, courtesy Ross Milligan, RCN. (RTL-REM013)
OJIBWA at Iroquois Lock
HMCS OJIBWA under tow by Florence M. enters the Iroquois Lock on the St. Lawrence Seaway on 4 June 2012. The former, Royal Canadian Navy submarine was towed from Halifax to Hamilton on Lake Ontario, where she underwent modifications to become a museum ship located at Port Burwell on Lake Erie. Roger Litwiller Collection, photo […]
Merchant Ship at Corner Brook
Merchant ship alongside the Bowater Pulp and Paper Mill in Corner Brook, NF in 1943, photo taken from HMCS WASAGA’s stern (foreground). Ross Milligan wrote SS South Brook on the face of the photo and SS North Brook on the back. Roger Litwiller Collection, courtesy Ross Milligan, RCNR. (RTL-RM286)
HMCS BRAS’D’OR
The Royal Canadian Navy hydrofoil, HMCS BRAS’D’OR, FHE400, designed and built in Canada, she was ahead of her time. BRAS’D’OR is now laid up as a museum ship on the south shore of the St. Lawrence River at Musée Maritime du Québec, 55 chemin des Pionniers Est, L’Islet, Quebec and is well worth a visit. Roger […]
MAYFLOWER Sentry
A Royal Canadian Navy sailor stands sentry in the corvette, HMCS MAYFLOWER. Roger Litwiller Collection, courtesy Ralph O’Brien, RCNVR. (RTL -ROB037)
AOPS Bow
Future HMCS MARGARET BROOKE’s bow section is maneuvered around the centre section in Irving Shipyard, revealing the compartments and spaces in her bow, on 3 May 2019. Roger Litwiller Collection, courtesy Roger Litwiller. (RTL-DSC_0185)
HMCS TRENTONIAN Work Ups -Bermuda
Excellent photo of HMCS TRENTONIAN’s stern, looking from the port side of the bridge. A smoke float has been dropped during training evolution’s off Bermuda in February 1944. Roger Litwiller Collection, Allen E. Singleton, RCNVR photo, courtesy Jack Harold, RCNVR. (RTL-JH018) This photo has been used by Roger Litwiller to create the book, Warships Of […]
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)