HMCS TRENTONIAN approaches the harbour entrance at Dover in the English Channel in 1944. From the Straits of Dover the crew of TRENTONIAN could see the British coast with the radar antenna and AA guns from one side of the ship and from the other side, the German occupied French coast with the large artillery […]
TRENTONIAN Smoke Screen
HMCS TRENTONIAN laying a smoke screen in the Straits of Dover. The thick black smoke is produced from the ship’s boilers and would help conceal the convoy as they pass near the occupied French coast, in sight of the enemy’s guns. Roger Litwiller Collection, Allen E. Singleton, RCNVR photo, courtesy Bruce Keir, RCNVR. (RTL-BK170)