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Roger Litwiller -Canadian Naval Author/Historian @rogerlitwiller.bsky.social · 13h

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Roger Litwiller -Canadian Naval Author/Historian @rogerlitwiller.bsky.social · 19h

#OTD 3/10/1914 #RememberRCN -1st troop convoy of #WWI departs Quebec City with the 1st Canadian Expeditionary Force, 31 ships escorted by RN. Consisting of; -30K soldiers -7.6K horses -70 guns -110 motor & 705 horsed vehicles CGS Canada, Fisheries protection cruiser was part of the escort.

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Roger Litwiller -Canadian Naval Author/Historian @rogerlitwiller.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

#OTD 2/10/2004 #RememberRCN -Former HMSubmarine UPHOLDER accepted by the RCN, renamed CHICOUTIMI at Faslane, Scotland and is the last of four Victoria class submarines accepted by the RCN. (RCN Photo)

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Roger Litwiller -Canadian Naval Author/Historian @rogerlitwiller.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

#OTD 2/10/1952 #RememberRCN -HMCS IROQUOIS engaged Chinese shore batteries off Korea & is struck by shell aft of “B” Gun, killing 3 sailors & wounding 11. IROQUIOUS broke off to tend wounded & repair damage, returning the next day, destroying the enemy guns. Photo -For Posterity's Sake

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Roger Litwiller -Canadian Naval Author/Historian @rogerlitwiller.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

#OTD 2/10/1951 #RememberRCN -1st post-war course of 25 Wrens begins at HMCS Cornwallis for the Naval Reserve. Trades include stores women, administrative writers, medical, naval air-women, harbour craft operators, communicators, radio technicians, electrical technicians, & ordnance.

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Roger Litwiller -Canadian Naval Author/Historian @rogerlitwiller.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

#OTD 2/10/1939 #RememberRCN -The Canadian Survey Ship Acadia recommissioned in RCN as HMCS ACADIA. This historic Canadian hydrographic ship 1st entered naval service during First World War & is now a museum ship at the Maritime Museum of the Atlantic in Halifax. Photo -ACADIA w/ HMSub SEAWOLF -1943.

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Roger Litwiller -Canadian Naval Author/Historian @rogerlitwiller.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

#OTD 1/10/2007 #RememberRCN -HMCS TORONTO operating as part of Standing NATO Maritime Group 1 in the Red Sea rescues 1 of 8 Yemini soldiers, forced into the water by an erupting volcano from the island of Jazirt Atta-Ir.

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Roger Litwiller -Canadian Naval Author/Historian @rogerlitwiller.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

#OTD 1/10/1941 #RememberRCN -Appropriately named, Sail Training schooner HMCS ATTABOY is commissioned into the RCN. The owner, Lt. Thomas Fuller, RCNVR (AKA -The Pirate of the Adriatic for his exploits commanding MGB's) of Ottawa loaned the 38 ft schooner to train RCNVR sailors.

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Roger Litwiller -Canadian Naval Author/Historian @rogerlitwiller.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

#OTD 30/9/1953 #RememberRCN -The second of five Royal Canadian Navy Reserve Squadrons is formed at Kingston ON. VC 921 Squadron is tendered to HMCS CATARAQUI flying Harvard trainers and an Expeditor.

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Roger Litwiller -Canadian Naval Author/Historian @rogerlitwiller.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

#OTD 29/9/1952 #RememberRCN -Cdr Landymore, RCN as SO Task Unit 95.22 orders 4 USN destroyers to bombard a North Korean gun emplaced in a cave on a cliff, without success. He then moves HMCS IROQUOIS close inshore & with a single broadside, destroys the deeply embedded gun.

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Roger Litwiller -Canadian Naval Author/Historian @rogerlitwiller.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

#OTD 28/9/1996 #RememberRCN -HMCS Ottawa (4th) commissioned at Cornwall, ON. and is the last of 12 Halifax class Canadian Patrol frigates to enter RCN service.

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Roger Litwiller -Canadian Naval Author/Historian @rogerlitwiller.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

#OTD 28/9/1963 #RememberRCN -HMCS PROVIDER (2nd), Provider class operational support ship commissioned & is the only ship in the class.

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Roger Litwiller -Canadian Naval Author/Historian @rogerlitwiller.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

#OTD 28/9/1944 #RememberRCN -HMCS BOWMANVILLE commissioned and is the last of 12 Castle Class corvettes to enter service with the RCN. Built as Royal Navy NUNNEY CASTLE, transferred to Canada before completed.

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Roger Litwiller -Canadian Naval Author/Historian @rogerlitwiller.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

#OTD 27/9/1954 #RememberRCN -HMCS LABRADOR arrives in Esquimalt & is the 1st RCN ship & 1st warship to transit the Canadian Northwest Passage from Atlantic to Pacific Oceans. Photo -LABRADOR with the RCMP Vessel St. Roch at Esquimalt. St. Roch was the 1st ship to transit Northwest Passage.

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Roger Litwiller -Canadian Naval Author/Historian @rogerlitwiller.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

#RoadTrip Heading to Brantford today to speak at tonights AGM dinner for Ontario Division of the Navy League of Canada. I will discuss the importance of our Cadet system to our youth, our community & our future. Looking forward to connecting with old friends & a shipmate from my time in HMCS OTTAWA!

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Roger Litwiller -Canadian Naval Author/Historian @rogerlitwiller.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

#OTD 25/9/1950 #RememberRCN -HMCS ATHABASKAN sends 30 heavily armed sailors in two boats to Korean island of Piun-to. On landing, they found the North Korean soldiers had retreated the day before. The sailors made arrangements for rice and flour for the embattled islanders.

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Roger Litwiller -Canadian Naval Author/Historian @rogerlitwiller.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

#OTD 25/9/1940 #RememberRCN -HMCS Prince Robert intercepts and captures German passenger freighter Weser off Mexico. Taken as a prize by @RoyalCanNavy & is renamed MS Vancouver Island, entering service with the Canadian Government Merchant Marine.

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Roger Litwiller -Canadian Naval Author/Historian @rogerlitwiller.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

#OTD 24/9/1997 #RememberRCN -Vice-Admiral Gregory R. Maddison became the 28th person to command Canada`s Navy as Commander Maritime Command and Chief of the Maritime Staff (CMS), replacing VAdm Gary Garnett who had been appointed Vice-Chief of the Defence Staff.

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Roger Litwiller -Canadian Naval Author/Historian @rogerlitwiller.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

#OTD 24/9/1955 #RememberRCN -HMCS SIOUX returns to Esquimalt, the last #RCNavy ship to leave Korea. Ending RCN's participation in the Korean War. DND Photo

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Roger Litwiller -Canadian Naval Author/Historian @rogerlitwiller.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

#OTD 24/9/1943 #RememberRCN -U536 enters Baie des Chaleurs waiting off Pointe de Maisonette for UBoat POW’s from Camp 30 in Bowmanville. RCMP foiled escape & RCN laid a trap to capture/sink sub. U536 escaped by hugging the coast on 28 Sept after getting caught in a fishing net.

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Roger Litwiller -Canadian Naval Author/Historian @rogerlitwiller.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

#OTD 24/9/1942 -U517 survives two attacks from 113 Sqn RCAF Hudson off Sept Îles in the St. Lawrence. 1st U-boat crashed dived as bombs dropped, 3 hrs later crash dived again as 4 bombs on target ahead of conning tower, a dud was later dislodged from U-boats deck.

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Roger Litwiller -Canadian Naval Author/Historian @rogerlitwiller.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

#OTD 24/9/1940 #RememberRCN -Under the British/American Destroyers for Bases agreement, six USN destroyers are transferred to Canada as Town class destroyers. HMCShips ANNAPOLIS, COLUMBIA, NIAGARA, ST CLAIR, ST CROIX & ST FRANCIS are commissioned into the RCN at Halifax.

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Roger Litwiller -Canadian Naval Author/Historian @rogerlitwiller.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

#OTD 23/9/1965 #RememberRCN -HMCSubmarine OJIBWA, “O” class submarine, commissions into the RCN at Chatham, UK. She is the first of three “O” class subs built for the RCN. A forth would be acquired as a dockside training vessel. OJIBWA is now a museum ship at Port Burwell, ON.

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Roger Litwiller -Canadian Naval Author/Historian @rogerlitwiller.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

#OTD 23/9/1944 #RememberRCN -With a variety of personalized funnel marking on RCN ships, Royal Canadian Navy officially adopts a single green Maple Leaf on the funnels of all ships. The Red Maple Leaf would be adopted in 1949. Discover more! zurl.co/LoScU

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Roger Litwiller -Canadian Naval Author/Historian @rogerlitwiller.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

#OTD 22/9/1952 #RememberRCN –The Royal Canadian Navy receives 1st TBM-3W2 AEW Avenger (Guppy), greatly improving anti-submarine and airborne early warning capabilities. Photo courtesy Shearwater Aviation Museum

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Roger Litwiller -Canadian Naval Author/Historian @rogerlitwiller.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

#OTD 22/9/1950 #RememberRCN -HMCShips CAYUGA and ATHABASKAN shell a heavy shore battery and retreating North Korean soldiers in Beijaa Bay. Photo -CAYUGA's gun crew, courtesy For Posterity's Sake.

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Roger Litwiller -Canadian Naval Author/Historian @rogerlitwiller.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

#OTD 21/9/1996 #RememberRCN -HMCS KINGSTON, Maritime Coastal Defence Vessel commissioned into RCN and is the first of 12 Kingston class MCDV's. KINGSTON was paid-off 3 October 2025.

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Roger Litwiller -Canadian Naval Author/Historian @rogerlitwiller.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

#OTD 21/9/1942 #RememberRCN -HMCS GEORGIAN while escorting Sydney-Quebec Convoy SQ-38, spots periscope/partial conning tower near Cap des Rosiers & attempts to ram U-boat as it dived. GEORGIAN dropped DC's. Damaged, U-517 broke surface, rolled on its side & was able to escape.

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Roger Litwiller -Canadian Naval Author/Historian @rogerlitwiller.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

THANK YOU to Bill, Stephen, Halifax Author and "Someone" for 'Buying me Coffees!" Your recent show of support helps me tell the stories of our sailors. If you find value in my daily RCN history posts, please consider joining these folks and click the link to add your support. zurl.co/RUKsE

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Roger Litwiller -Canadian Naval Author/Historian @rogerlitwiller.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

20/9/1943 #RememberRCN -Ships for Canada ceremony broadcast live on CBC, signals Canadian Shipyards to launch a record 12 ships simultaneously. Including a destroyer, 2 frigates, corvette, minesweeper, 3 tugs, a Fairmille, tanker & 2 freighters, worth $10.5M in shipping. @CDNShipbuilders

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Roger Litwiller -Canadian Naval Author/Historian @rogerlitwiller.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

#OTD 20/9/1943 #RememberRCN -HMCS ST. CROIX torpedoed & sunk by acoustic torpedo from U-305, while escorting convoy ON-202. HMS ITCHEN rescues 5 officers & 76 men. Tragically, all but one survivor was killed when ITCHEN was torpedoed two days later. SEE zurl.co/YxRDp

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Roger Litwiller -Canadian Naval Author/Historian @rogerlitwiller.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

#OTD 20/9/1918 #RememberRCN -Trawler Kingfisher (American) stopped & sunk by German U-cruiser U-155, 85 miles east of Halifax, no casualties. Kingfisher was the last ship sunk by German U-boats in Canadian waters during the First World War. #WWI Photo -Maine Memory Network

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Roger Litwiller -Canadian Naval Author/Historian @rogerlitwiller.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

#OTD 19/9/1943 #BattleOfAtlantic -U341 Sunk by Liberator from 10 (BR) Sqn Royal Canadian Air Force 500 miles S of Iceland. Aircraft was returning to Gander NF after escorting HMS RENOWN with PM Churchill embarked following the Quebec Conference.

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Roger Litwiller -Canadian Naval Author/Historian @rogerlitwiller.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

#OTD 19/9/1941 #RememberRCN -HMCS LEVIS torpedoed by U74 off Greenland while escorting convoy SC44. She later sinks while under tow. LEVIS is the first RCN corvette lost during the Battle of Atlantic, eighteen of her ship's company were killed. SEE zurl.co/emhx7

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Roger Litwiller -Canadian Naval Author/Historian @rogerlitwiller.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

#OTD 18/9/1943 #RememberRCN -Lieutenant Commander Marjorie Gordon Russell, RCN appointed as the first Matron-in-Chief of the RCN Medical Branch in charge of Nursing Sisters and Sick Bay Attendants.

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Roger Litwiller -Canadian Naval Author/Historian @rogerlitwiller.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

#OTD 18/9/1942 #RememberRCN -SS Norfolk, ex-Glenbuckie (Canada Steamship Lines, Montreal) struck by two torpedoes from U 175, sinking in less than a minute, off British Guiana at Venezuelan Border, 6 killed. Great Lake freighter pressed into ocean service. @CSLships

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Roger Litwiller -Canadian Naval Author/Historian @rogerlitwiller.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

#OTD 18/9/1942 #RememberRCN -Commander Adelaide Sinclair is appointed as the first Director of the Women's Royal Canadian Naval Service and given the rank of Acting Captain. DND photo.

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Roger Litwiller -Canadian Naval Author/Historian @rogerlitwiller.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

#OTD 18/9/1918 #RememberRCN -During the night of 18-19 September German U-cruiser, U-155 cuts one of the underwater telegraph cables off Sable Island linking Canada with Britain. #WWI #FirstWorldWar

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Roger Litwiller -Canadian Naval Author/Historian @rogerlitwiller.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

#OTD 17/9/1918 #RememberRCN -–During the night of 17-18 September German U-cruiser, U-155 laid a series of 18 mines off Halifax, between Betty Island, Sambro Lightship and the harbour approaches. #WWI #FirstWorldWar

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Roger Litwiller -Canadian Naval Author/Historian @rogerlitwiller.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

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Roger Litwiller -Canadian Naval Author/Historian @rogerlitwiller.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

#OTD 16/9/1995 #RememberRCN -Former-HMCS MACKENZIE, sunk as a sport-divers venue off Rum Island, near Sydney, BC. Photo courtesy -For Posterity's Sake

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Roger Litwiller -Canadian Naval Author/Historian @rogerlitwiller.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

#OTD 16/9/1954 #RememberRCN -HMCS RESOLUTE, Bay class minesweeper commissioned & is the 1st @RoyalCanNavy ship to be equipped with a Television. TV set donated by City of Kingston where the minesweeper was built. @CBC opened its 1st TV station (CBHT) in Halifax on 20 Dec 1954.

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Roger Litwiller -Canadian Naval Author/Historian @rogerlitwiller.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

#OTD 16/9/1945 #RememberRCN -HMCS PRINCE ROBERT is present in Hong Kong, representing Canada during the formal Japanese surrender ceremonies.

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Roger Litwiller -Canadian Naval Author/Historian @rogerlitwiller.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

#OTD 16/9/1942 #RememberRCN - First female Doctor. Dr Marion Isabel Templin appointed Surgeon Lieutenant, initially in the WRCNS, transferred to the RCN a month later. By the end of the war, seven female physicians will have joined the RCN’s Medical Branch.

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Roger Litwiller -Canadian Naval Author/Historian @rogerlitwiller.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

#OTD 16/9/1942 #RememberRCN - Convoy SQ-36 comes under attack by U-165 west of Cap Chat. U-boat sinks SS Joannis (Greek) and damages SS Essex Lance (British) and SS Pan York (American). There were no deaths amongst the three merchant ships.

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Roger Litwiller -Canadian Naval Author/Historian @rogerlitwiller.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

#OTD 16/9/1939 #RememberRCN -First convoy of WWII leaves Halifax for the UK, escorted by HMCShips SAGUENAY & ST. LAURENT. HX-1 consists of 18 merchant ships & arrived Liverpool on 30 September. By the end of WWII, over 25K merchants ships would be escorted across the Atlantic.

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Roger Litwiller -Canadian Naval Author/Historian @rogerlitwiller.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

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Roger Litwiller -Canadian Naval Author/Historian @rogerlitwiller.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

#OTD 15/9/1977 #RememberRCN -Vice-Admiral Robert Hillborn Falls is appointed as Chief of Defence Staff, commanding the CAF in Ottawa. Promoted to Admiral, Falls is the first Royal Canadian Navy sailor CDS & the 3rd person to hold the rank of Admiral in history of Canada's Navy.

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Roger Litwiller -Canadian Naval Author/Historian @rogerlitwiller.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

#OTD 15/9/1950 #RememberRCN -HMCShips CAYUGA, ATHABASKAN and SIOUX take part in the invasion of Inchon, Korea, escorting troop carriers and supply ships.

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Roger Litwiller -Canadian Naval Author/Historian @rogerlitwiller.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

#OTD 15/9/1942 #RememberRCN -Battle for Sydney-Quebec Convoy SQ-36 begins. 22 merchants ships escorted by HMCShips ARROWHEAD, SUMMERSIDE, VEGREVILLE, CHEDABUCTO, 3 Fairmiles & HMS SALISBURY attacked by 2 U-boats over two days. ARROWHEAD & SALISBURY damage U-517.

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