HMCS LA MALBAIE in the Irish Sea in July 1943, photo taken from HMCS ARVIDA. Roger Litwiller Collection, courtesy Howard Abbott, RCNVR. (RTL-HA065)
HMCS WASAGA Refueling-At-Sea
HMCS WASAGA conducts a Refueling-At-Sea with a merchant tanker on the North Atlantic. The minesweeper takes up a position astern of the tanker. The foc`s`le party takes up a hose dragging astern of the tanker and connects it to a standpipe on the ship, fuel is then pumped from the tanker to the receiving ship. […]
After Lookout
One of HMCS TRENTONIAN’s crew dressed for the cold as he stands watch on the stern of the corvette in December 1943. Roger Litwiller Collection, Allen E. Singleton, RCNVR photo, courtesy Jack Harold, RCNVR. (RTL-JH077)
HMC NAVAL CAMP -St. John’s NF
Several sailors from HMCS WASAGA take a break at the HMC NAVAL CAMP located seven miles outside of St. John’s, NF in 1942. The rest camp was established for the sailors from the escort ships to get away from shipboard life while in port. Sailors in this photo, MacDonald, Wm Black, Wm Weaver, S. Morris, […]
RCN Sailors at Port Arthur, ON.
Group of RCN sailors at the CPR station in Port Arthur, ON. (now Thunder Bay), sometime between 1943 and 1945. Roger Litwiller Collection, courtesy Allan “Bud” Bruder, RCNVR. (RTL-AB006)
RCN Corvette Landing Wounded Sailors
HMCS TRENTONIAN arrives at Portsmouth on 13 June 1944, with the wounded from the cable layer HMTS Monarch following a friendly fire incident with USS PLUNKETT the previous night. Ambulances, medical staff and photographers are waiting, even though no news of this tragic event will be released by the RCN. Roger Litwiller Collection, Allen E. […]
HMS PHILANTE, Armed Yacht
Admiral Sir Max Horton (RN) CaptainD, Armed yacht, HMS PHILANTE at Larne, Scotland in August 1943. PHILANTE was purchased from the Sopwith family and converted for the Royal Navy, initially escorting seven convoys across the Atlantic, then in 1943 she joined the Western Approaches Command as part of the Tactical Unit, responsible for training escort […]
HMCS WASAGA in Drydock
HMCS WASAGA hull has been given a fresh coat of anti-fouling paint while on the marine slip in Dartmouth in 1943. A great photo of the Bangor class minesweepers twin screws. WASAGA’s starboard propeller seems to have been marked for HMCS GRANDMERE. Roger Litwiller Collection, courtesy Ross Milligan, RCNR. (RTL-REM093)
HMCS TRENTONIAN -Quebec City
Quebec City is hit by a early winter storm, blanketing HMCS TRENTONIAN in snow, in December 1943. Due to a construction problem in the corvettes ventilating system, it is as cold in the ship as it is outside. Roger Litwiller Collection, courtesy Jack Harold, RCNVR. (RTL-JH052)
Clearing Ice HMCS WASAGA
Looking more like an ice castle, three of HMCS WASAGA’s ship’s company ready to clear ice from the minesweeper’s bridge and foc’s’le, off Halifax in 1944. Roger Litwiller Collection, courtesy Ross Milligan, RCNR. (RTL-REM077)