Dusk has come by the time HMCS HARRY DEWOLF reached Lock 8 at Port Colborne on 22 October 2024. This is final lock in the Welland Canal upbound & is a control lock to match the height of Lake Erie. @RLitwiller #RCNavy Photo Collection. See MORE zurl.co/lBEmW
#OTD 30/3/1972 #RememberRCN -Black Tot Day. Last day of Rum Issue to #RCNavy sailors (& sneaky mascots).
Ross Milligan on HMCS WASAGA's ice covered deck in January 1943. @RLitwiller #RCNavy Photo Collection. See MORE zurl.co/lBEmW
HMCS GOOSE BAY alongside in HMC Dockyard in Halifax on 6 March 2018. Photo taken from MV ASTERIX. @RLitwiller #RCNavy Photo Collection. See MORE zurl.co/lBEmW
#OTD 10/3/2017 #RememberRCN -HMCS ATHABASKAN (3rd) paid-off. She is the last of four Iroquois class destroyers to be in service with the #RCNavy. At the time she was the worlds oldest active destroyer having been commissioned on 30 Sept 1972.
Celebrate the many contributions of generations of Canadian women that have served & sacrificed in our #RCNavy! Beginning in 1914 serving at sea during #WWI to commanding an international Task Force. #InternationalWomensDay
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1/5 🇨🇦 CANADA WON'T SPLIT SUBMARINE CONTRACT 🇨🇦
Despite rumors, the government confirms it will select just one company to build up to 12 new submarines for the Royal Canadian Navy.
Source: Sarah Ritchie, The Canadian Press
#CdnPoli #RCNavy #Defense #Submarines #NatSecSky
#OTD 27/2/1930 #RememberRCN -HMCS THIEPVAL wrecked on uncharted rock in Barkley Sound, BC. The Battle class trawler sank the next day after attempts to salvage were unsuccessful. The #RCNavy at the time was using charts originally produced in 1861.
#OTD 22/2/1943 #RememberRCN -HMCS WEYBURN -while escorting Convoy MKS-8, supporting OpTORCH, sunk by mine laid by U-118, off Strait of Gibraltar, eight #RCNavy sailors killed, 68 rescued. SEE Details ow.ly/6xfW3094LKe
HMCS TRENTONIAN's entire crew is turned out on the fo'c'sle, in Number 1 uniforms for church parade in Milford Haven in November 1944. @RLitwiller #RCNavy Photo Collection. See MORE zurl.co/lBEmW
The 50th Anniversary Sea King fly's over Halifax Harbour at dusk on 27 August 2015. @RLitwiller #RCNavy Photo Collection. See MORE zurl.co/lBEmW
HMS MAYFLOWER Christmas Day 1944, Bill Paul, Doc. Elliot, Smitty, Melanson, Hurrie, Pete Rutledge. @RLitwiller #RCNavy Photo Collection. See MORE zurl.co/lBEmW
The RCN Sailors in HMCS VILLE DE QUEBEC have dressed their ship in preparation for the Commander Royal Canadian Navy Change-of-Command Ceremony at HMC Dockyard in Halifax on 12 June 2019. @RLitwiller #RCNavy Photo Collection. See MORE zurl.co/lBEmW
Ross Milligan, RCNR in HMCS WASAGA, Plymouth, UK in 1944. @RLitwiller #RCNavy Photo Collection. See MORE zurl.co/lBEmW
HMCS EDMONTON sits outboard of HMCS WHITEHORSE on the MCDV Jetty at HMC Dockyard in Esquimalt, BC. on 21 September 2019. The Victoria class submarine, HMCS CHICOUTIMI can be seen behind the crane on the right of the photo. @RLitwiller #RCNavy Photo Collection. See MORE zurl.co/lBEmW
The Canadian hospital ship Lady Nelson leaving Cherbourg Harbour, October/November 1944. @RLitwiller #RCNavy Photo Collection. See MORE zurl.co/lBEmW
Ocean Group tugboat Ocean Golf is available to assist HMCS ST JOHN'S away from the wall at Johnstown on the St. Lawrence River on 20 October 2019. @RLitwiller #RCNavy Photo Collection. See MORE zurl.co/lBEmW
Three sailors with HMCS MAYFLOWER's hedgehog. On the side of the bridge above the hedgehog is MAYFLOWER's gunshield art. @RLitwiller #RCNavy Photo Collection. See MORE zurl.co/lBEmW
A Royal Canadian Navy sailor stands sentry in HMCS MONTREAL as her sister frigate, HMCS CHARLOTTETOWN proceeds to sea on 1 May 2016. @RLitwiller #RCNavy Photo Collection. See MORE zurl.co/lBEmW
HMCS LEVIS torpedoed by U 74 on 19 Sept 1941, 120 miles east of Cape Farewell, Greenland while escorting Convoy SC-44. LEVIS remained afloat for several hours, eventually she rolled over & sank, 18 of her crew of sixty-one were killed. @RLitwiller #RCNavy Photo Collection. See MORE zurl.co/lBEmW
The Mackenzie class DDE, HMCS SASKATCHEWAN breaks a large wave over the ships bow while on a Far East Cruise in 1965. @RLitwiller #RCNavy Photo Collection. See MORE zurl.co/lBEmW
HMCS TRENTONIAN was briefly secured ahead of this merchant ship unloading cargo in the harbour at Argentia, NF. in March 1944. @RLitwiller #RCNavy Photo Collection. See MORE zurl.co/lBEmW
Orca class Patrol Craft Training Vessel, PCT-58 Renard in transit from Victoria to CFB Esquimalt on 15 September 2019. @RLitwiller #RCNavy Photo Collection. See MORE zurl.co/lBEmW
HMCS IROQUOIS (1st) in Belfast during WWII, unknown date. @RLitwiller #RCNavy Photo Collection. See MORE zurl.co/lBEmW
HMCS TORONTO's ship's company comes under the scrutiny of Iroquois Lock's ever present guardian, the local Osprey, as the ship enters the Seaway Lock on 8 July 2017. @RLitwiller #RCNavy Photo Collection. See MORE zurl.co/lBEmW
HMCS WASAGA's mascot lounges in a bucket. Original photo is blurry. @RLitwiller #RCNavy Photo Collection. See MORE zurl.co/lBEmW
HMC Dockyard in Halifax is full of activity as the newly accepted MV ASTERIX is made ready for her first deployment on 12 March 2018. @RLitwiller #RCNavy Photo Collection. See MORE zurl.co/lBEmW
HMCS KITCHENER arriving at St. George's Harbour, Bermuda. She arrived a full day after HMCS TRENTONIAN. The two corvettes started the voyage together, but lost sight of each other during a fierce North Atlantic storm in February 1944. @RLitwiller #RCNavy Photo Collection. See MORE zurl.co/lBEmW
HMCS IROQUOIS returning to Halifax on 6 July 2012. @RLitwiller #RCNavy Photo Collection. See MORE zurl.co/lBEmW
One of 12 RN corvettes built in Canada, distinguished by the single mast before the superstructure. The corvette has not yet been fitted its forward gun. All 12 were later transferred to the RCN. @RLitwiller #RCNavy Photo Collection. See MORE zurl.co/lBEmW
