In 2018 HMCS SACKVILLE underwent an extensive refit to it’s hull, adding additional steel plating below the waterline. This work will ensure the preservation of the last corvette for many years. Thank you to the members of the Fleet Maintenance Facility, CAPE SCOTT and Canada’s Naval Memorial Trust for a fascinating day with HMCS SACKVILLE. […]
HMCS TRENTONIAN Gunner
Leading Seaman Kenneth McDonald, RCNVR, from Windsor, Ontario during gunnery practice on HMCS TRENTONIAN’s 20mm Oerlikon. Roger Litwiller Collection, Allen E. Singleton, RCNVR photo, courtesy Bruce Keir, RCNVR. (RTL-BK151) This photo and collection have been gathered from the crew of HMCS TRENTONIAN and have been used by Roger Litwiller to create the book, White Ensign […]
HMCS RENARD
HMCS RENARD at Halifax in April 1944. RENARD is an armed yacht. Commissioned into the RCN early in the war and converted from private yacht to escort, until larger escort ships could be built. In this photo she is now working as a torpedo training ship and the torpedo tubes are easily visible on her […]
Hospital Ship -Portsmouth
British Hospital Ship NAUSHON arriving Portsmouth from Normandy in July 1944. Photo taken from HMCS TRENTONIAN. Roger Litwiller Collection, Allen E. Singleton, RCNVR photo, courtesy Bruce Keir, RCNVR. (RTL-BK115) This photo and collection have been gathered from the crew of HMCS TRENTONIAN and have been used by Roger Litwiller to create the book, White Ensign […]
Swim EX HMCS WASAGA
HMCS WASAGA’s ship’s company enjoys a swim ex off Pictou, NS in 1942. Roger Litwiller Collection, courtesy Ross Milligan, RCNR. (RTL-REM032)
MAYFLOWER’s Officers
HMCS MAYFLOWER Officer’s celebrate a New Year, January 1944. Pictured: Melanson, Gord Atkinson, Gar Smith. Roger Litwiller Collection, courtesy Ralph O’Brien, RCNVR. (RTL -ROB068)
LST-376 off Normandy
Landing Ship USS LST-376 sails past HMCS MAYFLOWER off the Normandy beachhead on 7 June 1944. Two days later on 9 June, this landing ship was torpedoed and sunk by German Torpedo Boats S172, S174, S175 and S187 in the English Channel. Roger Litwiller Collection, courtesy Ralph O’Brien, RCNVR. (RTL-ROB053)
A.B. O’Brian -HMCS TRENTONIAN Mascot
HMCS TRENTONIAN gained a new crew member in May 1944 in Londonderry when this dog wandered into the corvette and voluntarily stayed aboard. Quickly adopted as the ship’s mascot and named AB O’Brian, RCNVR, respecting his Irish origins, the stray never left. A hammock was made for him and strung between two stanchions in the […]
HMS PUNCHER’s Boat
HMS PUNCHER’s ships boat looks toy-like, set alongside the steel wall of the Canadian manned escort aircraft carrier’s hull in 1943. Roger Litwiller Collection, courtesy Howard Abbott, RCNVR. (RTL-HA097)
HMCS NORSYD
HMCS NORSYD overtakes HMCS TRENTONIAN on the North Atlantic coast of Nova Scotia, in route to Halifax from the Great Lakes, December 1943. Roger Litwiller Collection, Allen E. Singleton, RCNVR photo, courtesy Jack Harold, RCNVR. (RTL-JH049)