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Gold Beach

October 27, 2022 by Roger Litwiller

Gold Beach

Landing ships of all types pass HMCS MAYFLOWER off Gold Beach in Normandy on 7 June 1944. HMS AJAX can bee seen in the distance. Roger Litwiller Collection, courtesy Ralph O’Brien, RCNVR. (RTL-ROB048)

Filed Under: Photo of the Day Tagged With: corvette, DDay, Gold Beach, HMCS, HMCS WASAGA, HMS AJAX, Invasion, Landing Craft, Landing Ship, Naval History, Navy, Normandy, Operation Neptune, Operation OVERLORD, RCN, RN, Roger Litwiller, Royal Canadian Navy, Royal Navy, ships, WWII

HMCS HAIDA Flagship Ceremony

October 26, 2022 by Roger Litwiller

HMCS HAIDA Flagship Ceremony

HMCS HAIDA is dressed from stem to stern for the ceremony on 26 May 2018 in Hamilton, ON dedicating the Tribal Class Destroyer as the ceremonial Flagship of the Royal Canadian Navy. Roger Litwiller Collection, courtesy of Roger Litwiller. (RTL67600)

Filed Under: Photo of the Day Tagged With: Battle of Atlantic, Ceremonial, Cold War, Destroyer, Flagship, Friends of HMCS HAIDA, Hamilton ON, History, HMCS, HMCS HAIDA, Korean War, Naval History, Navy, North Atlantic, RCN, Roger Litwiller, Royal Canadian Navy, ships, Tribal Class, WWII

HMCS TRENTONIAN’s Officers

October 25, 2022 by Roger Litwiller

HMCS TRENTONIAN’s Officers

HMCS TRENTONIAN’s officers pose for a photo following a successful inspection of their ship by Rear-Admiral Fairbairn, RN, Flag-Officer-In-Charge, Milford Haven in October 1944. Roger Litwiller Collection, Allen E. Singleton, RCNVR photo, courtesy Bruce Keir, RCNVR. (RTL-BK187) This photo and collection have been gathered from the crew of HMCS TRENTONIAN and have been used by […]

Filed Under: Photo of the Day Tagged With: Battle of Atlantic, corvette, HMCS, HMCS TRENTONIAN, Milford Haven, Naval History, Navy, RCN, Roger Litwiller, Royal Canadian Navy, ships, White Ensign Flying, WWII

HMCS IROQUOIS

October 24, 2022 by Roger Litwiller

HMCS IROQUOIS

HMCS IROQUOIS is assisted into the RCN Dockyard in Halifax on 6 July 2012. Roger Litwiller Collection, courtesy Roger Litwiller. (RTL64635)

Filed Under: Photo of the Day Tagged With: Destroyer, Halifax, HMCS, HMCS IROQUOIS, Naval History, Navy, RCN, Roger Litwiller, Royal Canadian Navy, ships

Crossing the Atlantic

October 23, 2022 by Roger Litwiller

Crossing the Atlantic

Having a little fun, an unidentified member of HMCS TRENTONIAN’s ships company poses inside the air intake in April 1944. Roger Litwiller Collection, Allen B. Singleton, RCNVR photo courtesy Jack Harold, RCNVR. (RTL-JH068)

Filed Under: Photo of the Day Tagged With: Battle of Atlantic, corvette, HMCS, HMCS TRENTONIAN, Naval History, Navy, North Atlantic, RCN, Roger Litwiller, Royal Canadian Navy, ships, Warships of the Bay of Quinte, White Ensign Flying, WWII

Cardiff, Wales

October 21, 2022 by Roger Litwiller

Cardiff, Wales

The port at Cardiff, Wales as seen from HMCS TRENTONIAN in October 1944. A busy sea port with several merchants ships discharging their precious cargo’s after making the dangerous voyage across the Atlantic Ocean and attacks by the German U-Boats. Roger Litwiller Collection, Allen E. Singleton, RCNVR photo, courtesy Bruce Keir, RCNVR. (RTL-BK163)

Filed Under: Photo of the Day Tagged With: Battle of Atlantic, Cardiff, corvette, Freighter, History, HMCS, HMCS TRENTONIAN, Merchant Ship, Naval History, Navy, North Atlantic, Port, RCN, RN, Roger Litwiller, Royal Canadian Navy, Royal Navy, ships, Wales, WWII

Securing to the Jetty

October 20, 2022 by Roger Litwiller

Securing to the Jetty

Members of HMCS MONTREAL’s stern party secure their frigate to the jetty at HMC Dockyard in Halifax on 1 May 2016. Roger Litwiller Collection, courtesy Roger Litwiller. (RTL16509)

Filed Under: Photo of the Day Tagged With: CPF, Frigate, Halifax, Harbour Stations, HMCS, HMCS MONTREAL, Naval History, Navy, RCN, Roger Litwiller, Royal Canadian Navy, ships

Ice HMCS TRENTONIAN

October 17, 2022 by Roger Litwiller

Ice HMCS TRENTONIAN

Just returning to Halifax from the North Atlantic, HMCS TRENTONIAN is heavily covered in ice in February 1944. Her crew could play hockey on the ice covered gun deck in the foreground. Roger Litwiller Collection, Allen E. Singleton, RCNVR photo, courtesy Douglas Campbell, RCNVR. (RTL-DC030)

Filed Under: Photo of the Day Tagged With: Battle of Atlantic, corvette, Halifax, HMCS, HMCS TRENTONIAN, Ice, Naval History, Navy, North Atlantic, RCN, Royal Canadian Navy, ships, WWII

HMCS ASSINIBOINE

October 16, 2022 by Roger Litwiller

HMCS ASSINIBOINE

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)

Filed Under: Photo of the Day Tagged With: CARIBOPS, Cold War, Destroyer, History, HMCS, HMCS ASSINIBOINE, HMCS OTTAWA (III), Naval History, Navy, North Atlantic, RCN, Roger Litwiller, Royal Canadian Navy, Sea King, ships

Tribal Class Destroyers Laying Smoke

October 15, 2022 by Roger Litwiller

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 […]

Filed Under: Photo of the Day Tagged With: Destroyer, History, HMCS, HMCS IROQUOIS, HMS MAURITIUS, HMS URSA, Invasion, Naval History, Navy, Normandy, Operation Neptune, Operation OVERLORD, RCN, RN, Roger Litwiller, Royal Canadian Navy, Royal Navy, ships, Shore Battery, Smoke Screen, Tribal Class, WWII

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