HMCS WASAGA’s boats crew pulls toward HMCS TRILLIUM off Pictou, NS in 1942. Roger Litwiller Collection, courtesy Ross Milligan, RCNR. (RTL-REM033)
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)
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)
HMCS WASAGA Collision
Using the ship’s whaler, HMCS WASAGA’s damage control parties are able to inspect shoring and emergency repairs to the minesweepers hull after a collision with the danlayer HMS SURSAY on 11 April 1945. Roger Litwiller Collection, courtesy Ross Milligan, RCNR. (RTL-REM133)
Boat Alongside
A group of sailors row a boat alongside HMCS MAYFLOWER. Unknown date/place. Roger Litwiller Collection, courtesy Ralph O’Brien, RCNVR. (RTL-ROB010)
HMCS SASKATCHEWAN Boat Drill
HMCS SASKATCHEWAN conducts “man overboard” drills with the ships 27 foot whaler on the Pacific Ocean in 1965. Roger Litwiller Collection, courtesy Brian Rideout. (RTL-BR006)
HMS PUNCHER’s Boat
HMS PUNCHER’s ships boat looks toy-like, set alongside the steel wall of the Canadian manned escort aircraft carrier’s hull in 1943. Roger Litwiller Collection, courtesy Howard Abbott, RCNVR. (RTL-HA097)
HMCS IROQUOIS Floral Sea Boat
HMCS IROQUOIS’s sea boat returns to the destroyer after sending a shore party to the liberated Channel Island of Ile d’Yeu on 27 August 1944. The grateful islanders showered the RCN sailors with flowers (visible on deck) and cake, being the first allied force to arrive on the island after the Germans had retreated. IROQUOIS’s […]
Away Boats Crew
HMCS OTTAWA’s boat crew at work. During CARIBOPS, competitions among the RCN ships were common. In February 1981 the fleet came to a stop and each of the destroyers lowered their 27 foot whalers. Each boat crew had to pull their boat around the ship once and then return aboard into the davits. The first […]
HMS PUNCHER’s Duty Boat
One of HMS PUNCHER’s boats comes alongside the Canadian manned escort carrier in 1944. Roger Litwiller Collection, courtesy Howard Abbott, RCNVR. (RTL-HA094)