#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)

#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

#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.

#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.

#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.

#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.

#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.

#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.

#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.

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

#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.

#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.

#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!

#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.

#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.

#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.

#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

#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.

#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.

#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.

#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.

#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

#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

#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.

#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.

#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.

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

Roger Litwiller is Writing Canada's Naval heritage, please support my work with a coffee!

As a freelance author and researcher of Canadian Naval History, I take great joy in telling the stories of Canada's sailors.  Research, writing and posting these incredible stories daily on my we

buymeacoffee.com

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

#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

#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