HMCS PRESERVER at Halifax, 27 June 2011. Roger Litwiller Collection, courtesy Roger Litwiller. (RTL71107)
RN Landing Ship
RN Landing Ship off Normandy in June 1944. Photo taken from HMCS WASAGA. Roger Litwiller Collection, courtesy Ross Milligan, RCNR. (RTL-REM143)
Former HMCS OJIBWA
Former HMCS OJIBWA at the Iroquois Lock on 3 June 2012, to start it’s next career. The decommissioned Canadian “O” class submarine was being towed and refitted as a museum ship and now resides at Port Burwell, Ontario as a memorial to the Canadian men and women who fought the Cold War. This photo was […]
HMS CRANE
HMS CRANE, a modified Black Swan class sloop at anchor in Portsmouth, July 1944. Photo taken from HMCS TRENTONIAN. Roger Litwiller Collection, Allen E. Singleton, RCNVR photo, courtesy Bruce Keir, RCNVR. (RTL-BK111)
HMCS ATHABASKAN
HMCS ATHABASKAN (3rd) seen from starboard side of HMCS OTTAWA (3rd) in January 1981. Note: Scanned from original 110 Negative. Roger Litwiller Collection, courtesy Roger Litwiller. (RTL-RTL300416007)
HMCS NAPANEE
HMCS NAPANEE now completed, leaving Kingston on 12 May 1941. Her completion and commissioning was delayed until spring, after grounding in the St. Lawrence River on 30 November 1940, requiring the corvette to return to Kingston Shipyards for repairs. NAPANEE was to be the first corvette commissioned into the RCN, because of the delay in […]
Committal Service -HMCS MONTREAL
Committal Service in HMCS MONTREAL during Battle of the Atlantic service on 1 May 2016. On completion of each veterans service, the Piping Party would sound the still on the bosun’s Pipes and all in uniform would salute as the veterans remains were released over the side of the frigate. Roger Litwiller collection, courtesy Roger […]
TRENTONIAN Shipmates
Two shipmates from HMCS TRENTONIAN, AB Sydney Hunter (right) and Joe Taft in Bermuda, almost recovered, having endured the storm. Taft is one of TRENTONIAN’s two cooks, both of whom were incapacitated by seasickness during the storm in, February 1944. Roger Litwiller Collection, Allen E. Singleton, RCNVR photo, courtesy Jack Harold, RCNVR. (RTL-JH073) This photo […]
HMCS PRESERVER
HMCS PRESERVER returning to Halifax, 6 July 2012. Roger Litwiller Collection, courtesy Roger Litwiller. (RTL64642)
HMCS ARVIDA Boat Crew
HMCS ARVIDA’s boat crew with the corvettes 27 foot whaler in 1943. Front to back: Peter DeBeck, Bud Briggs, Ivan Bennett, Jim Fraser, and Bob Langraff. Roger Litwiller Collection, courtesy Howard Abbott, RCNVR. (RTL-HA104)