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 […]
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)
RCAF Lockheed CT-133 Silver Star
RCAF Lockheed CT-133 Silver Star, on display at the Shearwater Aviation Museum, Air Park at the entrance to CFB Shearwater in Nova Scotia. Four Silver Stars were initially used to train RCN Pilots for the Banshee Jet Fighter and later as a towed target aircraft before being turned over to the RCAF during unification. Roger […]
HMCS HURON (1st) -Drydock, Toulon, France
HMCS HURON (1st) in the Toulon Drydock in France on 1 December 1958. The destroyer was involved in a collision with the French destroyer MAILLE-BREZE on 15 November 1958 during the NATO exercise MEDASWEX 27 in the Mediterranean. Ten feet of HURON’s bow was crumpled as far back as frame 10 and displaced 50 degrees […]
Future HMCS MARGARET BROOKE
Future HMCS MARGARET BROOKE alongside the AOPS jetty in HMC Dockyard in Halifax on 16 December 2021. Roger Litwiller Collection, courtesy Roger Litwiller. (RL210089)
HMS ROBERTS -Normandy
HMS ROBERTS, classed as a Monitor, passing HMCS TRENTONIAN on 7 June 1944 off the Normandy Beachhead. She has the size of a cruiser but mounted with a battleship turret. She is designed to anchor off shore and bombard enemy positions in shore with her two heavy 15 inch guns. Anchored close, the concussion from […]
HMCS MONTREAL and GLENEVIS
HMCS MONTREAL is moved from her slip with assistance of RCN Tug GLENEVIS on 31 August 2015. Roger Litwiller collection, courtesy Roger Litwiller. (RTL13334)
Mail Call
Sailors from HMCS WASAGA arrive for Mail Call at HMC NAVAL CAMP outside St. John’s, NF in 1942. The rest camp was built to provide sailors from the escort ships a break from normal ship’s routine. Roger Litwiller Collection, courtesy Ross Milligan, RCNR. (RTL-RM303)
Women in the RCN -An Incredible Legacy
On 8 August 1914 a contingent of nursing sisters sailed in the the hastily converted, His Majesty’s Canadian Hospital Ship PRINCE GEORGE. I wonder if they realized they were making history. They were the first women to serve at sea in a ship under the control of the Royal Canadian Navy! This milestone would not be […]