#OTD 29/12/1956 #RememberRCN -HMCS MAGNIFICENT departs Halifax for Egypt, with deck load of 233 vehicles & 406 soldiers, Canada’s contribution to the UN Emergency Force. DND Photo

HMCS TRENTONIAN's ship's company working through the latest exercise during training evolution's in Bermuda in February 1944. @RLitwiller #RCNavy Photo Collection. See MORE zurl.co/lBEmW

#OTD 28/12/1943 #RememberRCN -Capt Harold T. W. Grant, RCN while commanding RN cruiser HMS ENTERPRISE engaged 5 German destroyers & 6 torpedo boats with HMS GLASGOW in the Bay of Biscay. Sinking 3 & damaged 4 others. Grant received the Distinguished Service Order for this action.

#OTD 28/12/1942 #RememberRCN -HMCS BATTLEFORD while investigating a radar contact, finds 4 U-boats on the surface preparing a concentrated attack on Convoy ONS-154. Assisted by HMCS CHILLIWACK, corvettes attack with gunfire, forcing U-664 & U-662 to lose contact with the convoy.

#OTD 28/12/1940 #RememberRCN -HMCS PRINCE DAVID, Armed Merchant Cruiser commissioned and is the last of the three Prince ships to enter service with the RCN. All three Prince's were @CNRailway passenger liners, converted for naval service.

HMCS ORIOLE's ship's company secure their sailing ship as they get underway to join the Parade of Tall Ships in Halifax on 1 August 2017. @RLitwiller #RCNavy Photo Collection. See MORE zurl.co/lBEmW

#OTD 27/12/2012 #RememberRCN -HMCS ATHABASKAN while under tow from refit in St. Catherines ON to Halifax, receives hull damage when tug looses power & the two ships collide, off Scatarie Island in Cape Breton.

OTD 27/12/1944 #RememberRCN -HMCShips ST. THOMAS & SEA CLIFF attack & sink German submarine U-877 using Squid mortar while escorting convoy HX-237 in the North Atlantic.

#OTD 27/12/1942 #RememberRCN –HMCS CHILLIWACK spots U-225 on the surface after the U-boat torpedoed the tanker Scottish Heather in Convoy ONS-154. Corvette attacks the submarine with Oerlikons, causing minimal damage, forcing it to crash dive and lose contact with the convoy.

#OTD 27/12/1942 #RememberRCN –HMCShips ST.LAURENT, BATTLEFORD, CHILLIWACK & NAPANEE share in the destruction of U 356 during the battle for Convoy ONS 154 in the North Atlantic.

#OTD 27/12/1942 #RememberRCN –HMCS ST LAURENT (1st) makes several depth charge attacks on U-441 while escorting Convoy ONS-154. The U-boat is undamaged but loses contact with the convoy.

Unidentified Canadian Sailor in Bermuda, possibly around 1944. @RLitwiller #RCNavy Photo Collection. See MORE zurl.co/lBEmW

#OTD 26/12/1942 #RememberRCN -Battle for Convoy ONS-154 begins. In a 7 day running battle HMCShips ST. LAURENT, BATTLEFORD, CHILLIWACK, NAPANEE, SHEDIAC & KENOGAMI engage 21 UBoats. 14 of 46 merchant ships are lost w/ 551 sailors killed, 1 UBoat sunk. Marc Magee painting.

HMS RENOWN in Rosyth, UK. Photo taken from HMCS IROQUOIS, unknown date. @RLitwiller #RCNavy Photo Collection. See MORE zurl.co/lBEmW

1944 December, North Atlantic Convoy, Passenger liner full of children and a #RoyalCanadianNavy Frigate saves #Christmas!

HMCS KINGSTON's ship's company have decorated their ship for the Christmas Season and a visit to Halifax waterfront for the Evergreen Festival on 12 December 2021. Merry Christmas everyone!!! @RLitwiller #RCNavy Photo Collection. See MORE zurl.co/lBEmW

#OTD 24/12/1944 #RememberRCN -In a tragic Christmas Eve loss, HMCS CLAYOQUOT torpedoed by U806 off Halifax. Bangor class minesweeper sank in 10 minutes, plunging survivors into the frigid water, 8 #RCNavy sailors are killed. Card -For Posterity's Sake. SEE zurl.co/Cbgc0

#OTD 24/12/1941 #RememberRCN -SS Shinai , ex-Canadian Beaver (G. L. Shaw, Vancouver) captured by Japanese forces, North Borneo off Kuching and renamed Shinai Maru. Merchant sailors interned as POWs by the Japanese, one sailor died in captivity.

Assisted by two RCN tugs, HMCS PRESERVER returns to Halifax on 6 July 2012. @RLitwiller #RCNavy Photo Collection. See MORE zurl.co/lBEmW

HMCS STORMONT, River class frigate in Halifax in March 1944. After the war STORMONT was sold and became the luxury yacht owned by Aristotle Onassis and renamed Christina. @RLitwiller #RCNavy Photo Collection. See MORE zurl.co/lBEmW

#OTD 22/12/1943 #BattleOfAtlantic -Four Beaufighters from 404 Sqn @RCAF_ARC with 4 Beaufighters from 144 Sqn RAF attack/damage U1062 escorted by German minesweeper M-489 S off Farsund, Norway. One submariner was killed & 2 wounded. Heavy return fire shot down 2 of 404's aircraft.

HMCS ST. JOHN'S is on the Syncrolift while HALIFAX and TORONTO are under maintenance at the home to Canada's East Coast Fleet in Halifax on 29 August 2018. @RLitwiller #RCNavy Photo Collection. See MORE zurl.co/lBEmW

#OTD 21/12/1944 #RememberRCN -SS Samtucky (British) while in Convoy HX-327, torpedoed by a Gnat fired from U-806 eighteen km from Halifax. The freighter was able to return to Halifax where it was beached and later repaired. No casualties.

#OTD 21/12/1920 #RememberRCN -Newly commissioned HMCShips AURORA -cruiser, PATRICIAN & PATRIOT -destroyers arrive #Halifax for first time.

#OTD 21/12/1870 #RememberRCN -The Royal Navy base at Kingston, ON. is the 1st naval base transferred to Canada, located on Point Frederick on Navy Bay. On the condition the facilities & dockyard continue to be used for naval purposes on the Great Lakes. The site became the Royal Military College.

Aircraft conduct Anti-Submarine patrols around Bermuda as this aircraft flies over HMCS TRENTONIAN during her Working Up evolution's in February 1944. @RLitwiller #RCNavy Photo Collection. See MORE zurl.co/lBEmW

#OTD 20/12/1941 #RememberRCN -HMCS ADVERSUS, Patrol Vessel, grounds in a gale and is lost off Shelburne NS. No casualties from her ships company of sixteen RCN sailors. SEE zurl.co/3GkE6

Tugs Florence M. (leading) and Lac Manitoba ease former HMCSubmarine OJIBWA through the Iroquois Lock on the St. Lawrence Seaway on 3 June 2012. @RLitwiller #RCNavy Photo Collection. See MORE zurl.co/lBEmW

#OTD 19/12/1998 #RememberRCN -HMCS CHIGNECTO (3rd) paid-off and was the last of fourteen Bay class minesweepers that served in the @RoyalCanNavy. Photo -For Posterity's Sake

#OTD 19/12/1996 #RememberRCN -Porte class gate vessels, HMCS PORTE DA LA REINE and HMCS PORTE QUÉBEC are paid-off. They are the last two of five vessels in the class. Photos -For Posterity's Sake

#OTD 19/12/1964 #RememberRCN -HMCS ANNAPOLIS (2nd), Annapolis Class destroyer, commissioned into the @RoyalCanNavy and is the last of the twenty “Cadillacs” to enter service. One of only two destroyers to be designed and built to embark a helicopter.

#OTD 19/12/1952 #RememberRCN -HMCS HAIDA attacks it's first Chinese supply train near Sonjin, Korea, destroying several rail cars. The engine escaped, denying HAIDA the entry "fee" and delaying the destroyer from joining the Trainbusters Club.

#OTD 19/12/1945 #RememberRCN -Cabinet in Ottawa approve the formation of the Air Branch of the @RoyalCanNavy.

Sailors from HMCS MAYFLOWER take a break from Cleaning Stations. Names on back of photo -Red Torfarsen, Stephenson, Nicol, Bob Hille, Ralph Miller. @RLitwiller #RCNavy Photo Collection. See MORE zurl.co/lBEmW

#OTD 18/12/1940 #RememberRCN -HMCS ST.CROIX returns to Halifax after being severely damaged in a hurricane, repairs take until March 1941.

HMCS WINNIPEG is underway off CFB Esquimalt on 20 September 2019.@RLitwiller #RCNavy Photo Collection. See MORE zurl.co/lBEmW

#OTD 17/12/2018 #RememberRCN -Officially retired from service a week before, four CH-124 Sea Kings from 443 Maritime Helicopter Sqn have the last flight from Patricia Bay along the Victoria coastline and up to Duncan, Nanaimo, Parksville, Qualicum, ending 55 years of service.

#OTD 17/12/1954 #RememberRCN -The @RoyalCanNavy takes delivery of 4 Canadair T-33 Silver Star Jet Trainers, from the @RCAF_ARC The T-33 was the 1st Jet powered aircraft operated by the RCN & used to transition RCN pilots from the Sea Fury to the Banshee.

#OTD 17/12/1945 #RememberRCN -RCN Ville class tug BARKERVILLE, capsized & sank at entrance to Bedwell Bay, Vancouver, while towing HMCS HESPELER.

#OTD 17/12/1944 #RememberRCN -HMCS MONTREAL (1st) rescues survivors from German U-1209 when U-boat wrecked on Wolf Rock, Near Land's End.

HMCS MAYFLOWER sails past a DUKW and several invasion ships off the coast of Normandy in June 1944. Photo taken from MAYFLOWER. @RLitwiller #RCNavy Photo Collection. See MORE zurl.co/lBEmW

#OTD 16/12/2021 #RememberRCN -HMCS HARRY DEWOLF returns to Halifax after circumnavigating North America, via the Northwest Passage and Panama Canal. The Arctic & Offshore Patrol Ship is the 2nd RCN ship to circumnavigate North America after HMCS Labrador in 1954.

#OTD 16/12/1951 #RememberRCN -HMCS SIOUX helps repel Chinese invasion of two Korean Islands. SIOUX’s radar picked up a large infantry force crossing the mud flats to Ung-do. Then later shelling enemy artillery landed on Chongyong-do.

#OTD 16/12/1940 #RememberRCN -SS Bic Island (Canadian Government) damaged by bombs from German aircraft in the North Atlantic. Originally Italian passenger/freighter Cape Noli, captured by HMCS BRAS D'OR on 10 June 1940 and renamed Bic Island.

The 1st lines are secured as HMCS KINGSTON arrives at her Namesake city of Kingston, Ontario on 12 July 2013.The MCDV is on a Great Lakes tour and the shore party are from the local Naval Reserve unit, HMCS CATARAQUI. @RLitwiller #RCNavy Photo Collection. See MORE zurl.co/lBEmW

#OTD 15/12/1944 #RememberRCN -SS Fort Maisonneuve (Canadian Government) struck mine & sinks in Scheldt Estuary, Netherlands, 4 killed & 6 severely injured. @ParksCanada

RCN sailors clear HMCS WASAGA's ice covered foc's'le in January 1943. Listed on back of photo: S. Morris, J. McEntie, Platt, Wm. Weaver, Jack Glass and Paskavik. @RLitwiller #RCNavy Photo Collection. See MORE zurl.co/lBEmW

CNAV QUEST in the Maritime Forces Atlantic Dockyard Annex in Dartmouth on 28 June 2010. An Iroquois class destroyer is on the other side of the harbour. @RLitwiller #RCNavy Photo Collection. See MORE zurl.co/lBEmW

#OTD 13/12/1944 #RememberRCN -HMCS CARLPLACE commissions into Royal Canadian Navy named for #CarletonPlace, ON. and is the last of 60 Canadian built River class frigates to enter service during #WWII.

#OTD 13/12/1941 #RememberRCN -HMCS RESTIGOUCHE (1st) severely damaged in North Atlantic gale while escorting Convoy ON44. Repairs at Grennock Scotland took until March 1942.