Sailors from HMCS WASKESIU enjoy a run ashore in Kola Inlet, Russia prior to escorting Arctic Convoy RA59, 23 to 28 April 1944. Roger Litwiller Collection, courtesy Austin Chater, RCNVR/RCNR. (RTL-AC032)
Sunrise Over HMCDockyard Halifax
HMCShips MONTREAL and ATHABASKAN alongside at the HMC Dockyard in Halifax on 5 September 2015. Roger Litwiller collection, courtesy Roger Litwiller. (RTL53592)
HMCS MACKENZIE
HMCS MACKENZIE, Mackenzie class DDE backs away from the jetty at Esquimalt departing on a Far East cruise in 1965. MACKENZIE was accompanied by HMCS SASKATCHEWAN and HMCS BEACON HILL. Roger Litwiller Collection, courtesy Brian Rideout. RTL-BR001)
Haul Away Together
Sailors in HMCS TRENTONIAN ready to hoist the ship’s whaler back on board in 1944-45. Roger Litwiller Collection, Allen E. Singleton, RCNVR photo, courtesy Tom Farrell, RCNVR. (RTL-TF072)
St. Lawrence II with CNAV MERRICKVILLE
Brigantine St. Lawrence II and RCN Tug MERRICKVILLE in Halifax Harbour for the Tall Ships Rendezvous for Canada 150 Celebrations on 28 July 2017. Roger Litwiller Collection, courtesy Roger Litwiller. (RTL83357)
HMCS WASAGA Collision
Ross Milligan stands in the hole in HMCS WASAGA’s port side created when the danlayer HMS SURSAY had sliced into the minesweeper on 11 April 1945. The collision hit the seaman’s mess and playing cards can be seen strewn on the deck. Roger Litwiller Collection, courtesy Ross Milligan, RCNR. (RTL-REM130)
HMC Dockyard
RCN’s East Coast home is busy with HMCS HALIFAX undergoing maintenance and MV Asterix astern. Future HMCS MARGARET BROOKE is working towards acceptance on 10 December 2021. Roger Litwiller Collection, courtesy Roger Litwiller. (RTL00957)
ICE BREAKER EARNEST LAPOINTE
The newly built icebreaker, Earnest LaPointe is brought in to free HMCShips TRENTONIAN, NORSYD and HMCTug NORTON from the ice in Quebec City in December 1943. This icebreaker is now a museum ship at the MUSEE MARITIME DU QUEBEC, L’Islet, Quebec. Roger Litwiller Collection, Allen E. Singleton, RCNVR photo, courtesy Jack Harold, RCNVR. (RTL-JH045)
HMCS VILLE DE QUEBEC’s Lookout
HMCS VILLE DE QUEBEC’s Aft Lookout keeps watch as the frigate leaves Halifax Harbour for Battle of Atlantic Ceremony on 5 May 2019. Roger Litwiller Collection, courtesy Roger Litwiller. (RTL-59677)
RCN ML Q079
RCN ML Q079 in Dartmouth, NS, sometime in 1943. Sold after WWII, this Fairmille returned to the RCN in 1949 as PTC 779, her name was changed to HMCS RACCOON in 1954. She was paid off in 1956. Roger Litwiller Collection, courtesy Ross Milligan, RCNVR. (RTL-REM090)