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Iced up on the Matapedia
Circa 1943
Atlantic Ocean

Credits:
Herbert Roberts Collection
2007-2008 Album, Crow's Nest

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Matapedia Iced Up
1943
Atlantic Ocean

Credits:
Herbert Roberts Collection
2007-2008 Album, Crow's Nest

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Breaking Ice on the Matapedia
Circa 1942
Atlantic Ocean

Credits:
Herbert Roberts Collection
2007-2008 Album, Crow's Nest

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Iceberg off St. John's
Circa 1942
St. John's, Newfoundland, Canada

Credits:
Herbert Roberts Collection
2007-2008 Album, Crow's Nest

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Icebergs Near St. John's Harbour
Circa 1941
St. John's Harbour, Newfoundland
TEXT ATTACHMENT


Credits:
Patrick Griffiths Collection
2007-2008 Album, Crow's Nest

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Icebergs near St. John's Harbour
Circa 1941
St. John's Harbour, Newfoundland

Credits:
Patrick Griffiths Collection
2007-2008 Album, Crow's Nest

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On the Triangle Run
1943
Atlantic Ocean

Credits:
Herbert Roberts Collection
2007-2008 Album, Crow's Nest

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Diver at Work
Circa 1942
St. John's, Newfoundland, Canada

Credits:
Herbert Roberts Collection
2007-2008 Album, Crow's Nest

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Shell Tanker "Diala" Torpedoed drifting
February 1941
About 400 miles East of St. John's, Newfoundland

Credits:
2007-2008 Album, Crow's Nest
#2527050

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Shell Transport Tanker "Diala" Torpedoed drifting
February 1941
About 400 miles East of St. John's, Newfoundland

Credits:
#2527050
2007-2008 Album, Crow's Nest

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Battling Seasickness to Capture the"Triangle Run" on Film
Circa 1942
Atlantic Ocean
AUDIO ATTACHMENT


Credits:
Herbert Roberts Collection
Gary Green
Jacquey Ryan
2007-2008 Album, Crow's Nest

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My name is Herb Roberts. I joined in Winnipeg in 1940 and I served on HMCS Matapedia, commissioned HMCS Whitby and then I served on HMCS Burlington. The first two were corvettes and the third was a minesweeper, that was in Dec. 1941, just before Christmas and we took our first convoy to Iceland, I just became acclimatized to the ship when we were tied up I didn't get sick and recognized there was a form of sickness called seasickness, it wasn't put on. He was one of our radar operators and we never saw him from the time we left Halifax until we got to Iceland because he went underneath the cabinet and stayed there all the way, actually I think a couple of the officers thought he was going to die he was kinda force fed and he couldn't keep anything down, and when we got to Iceland we put him on HMS Heckle, it was the supply ship and they had medical services and as you said they said he wasn't sick when he was aboard the Heckler but on the way back he got sick again and that's when they took him off and did all the tests on him (and led to the development of the seasickness pill), that's true.

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Patrick Edward Griffith's Rating Card
Circa 1940
St. John's, Newfoundland, Canada
TEXT ATTACHMENT


Credits:
Patrick Griffiths Collection
2007-2008 Album, Crow's Nest

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For hundreds of years the Royal Navy issued a daily ration of grog( a mixture of rum and water) to all hands. When the Royal Canadian Navy was formed the tradition was carried on in the same manner. The usual practise was to issue the rum in the forenoon at the same time afternoon watchmen were called to dinner. The pipe "UP SPIRITS AFTERNOON WATCHMEN TO DINNER" was heard throughout the ship. The off duty crew lined up to receive their issue which was to be drunk in front of the issuers (usually the Officer of the Day and the Cowswain". The "cook of the mess" for each mess drew the issue (called a "tot") for those on duty and issued it to them at the end of the forenoon watch. This custom or variations of it carried on until sometime in the 1970's when the practice was terminated in the RCN and RN. It should be pointed out that prior to, during and after WWII a rating had to be 20 years old to draw his "tot", if younger he was paid 6 cents a day in lieu of the rum issue. One could also elect not to draw it and receive the 6 cents which was paid quarterly. During WWII it was $5.40 every quarter. A rating's Watch Card was noted G or T, Grog or Temperance, to show whether or not he was entitled to the daily issue. During WWII in many of the small ships, minesweepers, corvettes etc., the rum was issued "neat" that is without water to each cook of the mess for reissue. It was sold by some or traded for cigarettes.