The Tragic Sinking of S.S. "Caribou" The Tragic Sinking of S.S. “Caribou” South West Coast Historical Society & Shipwreck Preservation Society of Newfoundland & Labrador
This statement is by Ernest Kettle, who was a fisherman from Grand Bay, Newfoundland. He gave it on November 7, 1942 to the Magisterial Enquiry on the recovery […]
An unidentified blonde-haired baby boy was buried in Hardwood Hill cemetery in Sydney, Nova Scotia on October 17, 1942. The boy had survived the sinking of S.S. Caribou […]
Fifteen-month-old Leonard Shiers was the youngest survivor of the sinking of S.S. Caribou. In this photo, he is shown with a nurse at the City Hospital in Sydney, […]
This photo shows the some of the soldiers, sailors and airmen who survived the sinking of S.S. Caribou and were picked up by the Navy escort ship H.M.C.S. […]
The headline on the front page of the Corner Brook, Newfoundland newspaper, the Western Star, on October 23, 1942 reads: “137 Lose Lives in the Caribou Tragedy.” Story […]
The headline on the front page of the Sydney, Nova Scotia newspaper, the Sydney Post-Record, on October 17, 1942 reads: “137 Lose Lives in Caribou Tragedy: Newfoundland Ship […]
General plan of German Type VIIC submarine. This plan was used for the construction of U-551 to U-574 by the Blohm & Voss shipyard in Hamburg, Germany. The […]
This poster was produced by H. Thornhill in Corner Brook in 1944. It includes photos of S.S. Caribou and the 31 crew members killed in the sinking along […]
Shipyard plans for the construction of the steamship Caribou by the New Waterways Shipbuilding Company in Schiedam, the Netherlands in 1925. The ship’s length was 84.3 metres (265 […]
