A Survivor of the Battle of the Atlantic, with a large hole in its bow from a German U-boat’s torpedo, this merchant ship waits for repair at St. John’s NF in 1943. Photo taken from HMCS WASAGA. Roger Litwiller Collection, courtesy Ross Milligan, RCNR. (RTL-REM166)
Torpedoed Tanker St. John`s, NF.
Torpedoed Tanker in St. John’s Harbour, NF waiting for repairs, in 1942. The damage from the torpedo can be seen in the midships section of the merchant ship. Roger Litwiller Collection, courtesy Ross Milligan, RCNR. (RTL-REM050)
HMCS LEVIS
HMCS LEVIS torpedoed by U 74 on 19 September 1941, 120 miles east of Cape Farewell, Greenland while escorting Convoy SC-44. The torpedo struck the corvette just ahead the 4 inch forward gun, blowing a large hole in her bow. Damage control was initially effective and she was taken in tow. LEVIS remained afloat for […]
Torpedoed Merchant Tanker
A merchant tanker anchored with a large torpedo hole midships sits in St. John`s harbour on Newfoundland in 1942. Roger Litwiller Collection, courtesy Ross Milligan, RCNR. (RTL-REM158)
HMS PINK
Exceptional photo of the size difference between a corvette and a battleship. Bruce Keir wrote on this photo HMS PINK, Cardiff, October 1944. PINK was a Flower class corvette damaged by a torpedo from U988 on 27 June 1944 and was declared a total loss. The charring from the fire is clearly visible on her […]
Torpedoed Tanker
Worth its weight in gold, a torpedoed tanker waits for repairs in St. John’s, Newfoundland during WWII, 1943. Roger Litwiller Collection, courtesy Ross Milligan, RCNR. (RTL-REM085)
HMCS IROQUOIS Exploits After VE Day
Great detail has been recorded of the Royal Canadian Navy’s ships during the Second World War, including the Battle of the Atlantic, Operations in the Arctic, Mediterranean and many other ocean battlefronts. Sadly very little has been written about what happened to our ships after VE Day? Recently I have received a large collection of […]
HMCS LOUISBURG
HMCS LOUISBURG, Flower class corvette was attacked and sunk by Italian aircraft while deployed to the Mediterranean in support of Operation TORCH on 6 February 1943.  Of her crew of eighty-four sailors, forty were killed in the attack. At the time LOUISBURG was one of seventeen RCN corvettes moved from the North Atlantic convoys to support […]