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 shows the covers of two books written about the sinking of S.S. Caribou. The first is Douglas How’s historical account Night of the Caribou. It tells the […]
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 […]
This map shows the hometowns of the 137 people who died in the sinking of S.S. Caribou. The impact of the tragedy was felt across North America. Victims […]
This memorial commemorates the sinking of the Newfoundland ferry S.S. “Caribou” off Channel-Port aux Basques, Newfoundland on October 14, 1942. The steamship was torpedoed and sunk by the […]
Transcript of video: [Sign at the entrance to club: Officers Club, Crow’s Nest (members only)] [Stairway up to club entrance] [Title text: An excerpt from “Fifty Nine Steps to […]
Transcript of video about the sinking of S.S. Caribou by U-69: On October 14th 1942, U-69 and [a German submarine diving under the surface of the ocean] its […]
This is a list the identities of 34 bodies recovered by fishermen from the ocean near the site of the S.S. Caribou sinking. The bodies were recovered on […]
This newspaper ad was in the Western Star a month after the sinking of S.S. Caribou. The ad indicated that Dr. M.F. Ronan of Nova Scotia was offering […]
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, […]
The death toll from the sinking of S.S. Caribou was greater than any other ship lost in Canadian and Newfoundland waters during World War II. There were 238 […]
