Two Town class destroyers take on fuel from a tanker in St. John’s Harbour in 1942. HMCS ST CLAIR (ex-USS WILLIAMS) is outboard. Roger Litwiller Collection, courtesy Ross Milligan, RCNR. (RTL-REM036)
Refueling at Sea
The tanker’s stern (possibly SS Beaconstreet) towers over HMCS MATAPEDIA as the corvette takes on fuel during a North Atlantic convoy. Roger Litwiller Collection, courtesy William Belling, RCNVR. (RTL-WB055) If you enjoy the content I create and find value in the articles on this website, please feel free to click on the coffee icon on […]
HMCS ARVIDA Refueling in Convoy
While escorting a convoy on the North Atlantic, HMCS ARVIDA (foreground) takes on fuel from a tanker in the convoy in August 1943. Roger Litwiller Collection, courtesy Howard Abbott, RCNVR. (RTL-HA088)
HMCS TRENTONIAN Refueling
HMCS TRENTONIAN covered in ice, takes on fuel before leaving the bone chilling cold of Halifax for warmer weather in Bermuda in February 1944. The corvette and her crew will spend almost two weeks in Bermuda for work up and training evolution’s, getting their newly commissioned ship ready for Convoy Operations on the North Atlantic. […]
TRENTONIAN at Bermuda
Training evolution’s complete, HMCS TRENTONIAN takes on fuel from the tanker War Brahmin before leaving Bermuda to return to Halifax, in February 1944. Two of the officers have a little sport while passing the time, this same horse play caused a serious incident in May 1944 that put the ship and crew in jeopardy during […]
HMCS WASAGA Refueling-At-Sea
HMCS WASAGA conducts a Refueling-At-Sea with a merchant tanker on the North Atlantic. With both ships carefully maintaining speed and coarse, the fuel hose is dragged astern of the tanker, through the bull ring of the minesweeper and connected to the fuel stand pipe on deck. With all connections secured the tanker commences pumping operations […]
Refueling At Sea
A Canadian warship takes on fuel from a tanker in the convoy. Roger Litwiller Collection, courtesy of the Port Hope Branch of the Navy League of Canada. (RTL-PHNL002)
HMCS PROTECTEUR
HMCS OTTAWA has joined HMCS PROTECTEUR’s fuel line and the two ships maintain an exact course and speed as fuel is pumped to the destroyer in February 1982 in the Caribbean. Roger Litwiller Collection, courtesy Roger Litwiller. (RTL-RTL300416025)