D-Day in colour: Canadian & UK landing craft off what appears to be Bernières-sur-Mer. @thenfb archives, shot 13588, https://t.co/J0QE9h9QLX. Landing Craft Gun in the foreground, with Landing Craft Tank (Rocket) firing in distance. #DDay #RoyalNavy #RCNavy #Normandy #JunoBeach

HMCS CARAQUET & other ships of @RoyalCanNavy’s 31st Minesweeping Flotilla, around #DDay. Night of 5/6 June 1944 16 Canadian minesweepers helped clear approaches to Normandy beaches. @thenfb archives https://t.co/kYL00mNDKa #Normandy #OperationNeptune #WW2 #WWII #SWW #Minewarfare

Lead-up to D-Day: GIF of colour footage of Canadian & UK landing craft, from @thenfb archives, shot ID 13582. Includes LCI(L) 299 from @RoyalCanNavy 2nd Canadian LCI Flotilla (@RoyalNavy Flotilla 262). https://t.co/fARDqnDb9T #DDay #Normandy #WW2 #WWII #SWW #RCNavy #RoyalNavy

Looking forward to presenting today about the history of this Soviet torpedo from the @canwarmuseum's collection -- as well as other Soviet naval weapons brought to Canada from North Korea via Japan in 1951 -- at the 33rd Canadian Military History Colloquium at @studyofcanada.

Getting ready for the first day of the @NASOH_History conference, meeting aboard the ferry boat Berkeley, part of the collection of @sdmaritime. Definitely a distinctive conference venue!

A reminder of the upcoming deadline for submissions (Friday, 31 March) for this year's CRNS Conference in St. John's NL, August 17-18, 2023!

Today is the CRNS-SCRN annual conference! I'll (@slopclothes) be tweeting along with today's four panels so follow along here for today's proceedings.

Stopped at the #Canso Causeway to take some photographs of the swing bridge, only to get an unplanned front-row seat to catch it in action — seen here closing.

Coming up in a little over a month's time - the annual Canadian Nautical Research Society conference:

CFP deadline for the Canadian Nautical Research Society's annual conference: this Sunday, 15 May!

#OTD 100 years ago, 17 October 1921: second race of the elimination trials to select Nova Scotia's contender for the International Fishermen's Trophy. Photos taken by C.H.J. Snider aboard the victorious Bluenose during the race, @ArchivesOntario F1194-4 #Bluenose #Bluenose100

#OTD 100 years ago Bluenose competed against other Canadian schooners to win the right to race in the 1921 International Fishermen’s Trophy. (1/2) ⚓️⛵️ #Bluenose100

RNCC Third Term, 1913-1932, At Admiralty House, Halifax NS. (The last time we were together) Rear L-R: F.L. Houghton, E.S. Sherwood, A.R. Pressey. Middle L-R: R.M. Puddicombe, R.H. Oland. Front L-R: V.S. Godfrey, W.J.R. Beech*, G.M. Hibbard. *Senior to us - our Cadet Captain. 2/2

Since today’s National Bow Tie Day, here are some being worn at a 1932 reunion of the Third Term of the Royal Naval College of Canada at Admiralty House in #Halifax (now home to @NavalMuseumHFX). Photo @CanWarMuseum 19710214-019_1. #RCNavy #NationalBowTieDay 1/2

April 26 Lecture: "Not Lost at Sea: McGill Archivists to the Rescue" - Gordon Burr, Ron Critchley, Wes Cross https://t.co/FYe3xRpTgF #mcgillu

Fortunately, there are also photographs of Frank Louis Arnold to go with his story. They add his face to his name and his experiences, to share on this #VimyRidgeDay. 18/18

While these cards are generally postwar, and go up to the early 1960s, they do contain some entries from the war or that started in wartime, such as Arnold’s. His non-standard card with its multiple notations caught my attention, as did the details in his personnel file. 17/18

Since they’re organized alphabetically but aren’t keyword searchable, I had to work through the cards to find the individual I was interested in, and came across Arnold’s card in the process. 16/18

This series of tweets is the result of an accidental research discovery. While working on separate collections research about documents relating to a late 1930s medical claim, I consulted the Veterans Death Cards held by @LibraryArchives : https://t.co/hmzEf7mDc0 15/18