With her Sea King overhead, HMCS ASSINIBOINE overtakes HMCS OTTAWA during CARIBOPS in January 1981. Note: Scanned from original 110 Negative. Roger Litwiller Collection, courtesy Roger Litwiller. (RTL-RTL300416009)
Tribal Class Destroyers Laying Smoke
HMCS IROQUOIS with HMShips MAURITIUS and URSA steaming at 32 knots and laying smoke screen to evade fire from shore batteries off the west coast of France on 22 August 1944. IROQUOIS and MAURITIUS had been straddled by shells from the Gironde Shore Battery. Roger Litwiller Collection, Lynford Bourne, RCNVR photo, courtesy Battle of Atlantic […]
HMC Dockyard -Halifax
HMC Dockyard in Halifax is full of activity as the newly accepted MV ASTERIX is made ready for her first deployment. Roger Litwiller Collection, courtesy Roger Litwiller. (RTL26675)
MAC Ship Recovering Aircraft
Merchant Aircraft Carrier (MAC) ship recovering aircraft while in convoy. One aircraft is just astern of the MAC ship, with a second aircraft already on the forward flight deck. An additional fifteen merchant ships can be seen in the convoy. MAC ships were converted merchant tankers, given a flight deck and up to four fighter […]
HMCS REGINA Painting Ship
HMCS REGINA receives its commemorative Western Approaches Disruptive camouflage paint scheme on 21 September 2019 at HMC Dockyard in Esquimalt, BC. The frigate is receiving this paint scheme to commemorate the 75th anniversary of the end of the Battle of the Atlantic. Roger Litwiller Collection, courtesy Roger Litwiller. (RTL05283)
HMS DUFF
HMS DUFF, Captain class frigate on patrol in the English channel, as she passes HMCS TRENTONIAN in August 1944. Roger Litwiller Collection, Allen E. Singleton, RCNVR photo, courtesy Bruce Keir, RCNVR. (RTL-BK117)
HMCS SUMMERSIDE
HMCS SUMMERSIDE alongside at the RCN Dockyard in Halifax on 27 June 2011. Roger Litwiller Collection, courtesy Roger Litwiller. (RTL71106)
USS LST-46
American Tank Landing Ship, USS LST-46, off Normandy June 1944. Photo taken from HMCS WASAGA. Roger Litwiller Collection, courtesy Ross Milligan, RCNR. (RTL-REM142)
Away Boats Crew
HMCS MONTREAL launches her RHIB following the Committal Service on 1 May 2016. Although the remains of the veterans had been placed in cardboard boxes for the burial-at-sea, every effort must be taken to ensure that the boxes have indeed slipped beneath the waves. Roger Litwiller Collection, courtesy Roger Litwiller. (RTL16498)
Roy Evans, RCNVR
HMCS TRENTONIAN’s Leading Steward Roy Evans, RCNVR, from Saskatoon, SK in HMC Dockyard in Halifax in March 1944. Roger Litwiller Collection, Allen E. Singleton, RCNVR photo, courtesy Bruce Keir, RCNVR. (RTL-BK045)