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 […]
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 […]
This photo shows the funeral procession in Channel, Newfoundland for six crewmen of S.S. Caribou, whose bodies were recovered from the ocean after the sinking. The funeral took […]
S.S. Caribou was a merchant steamship of 2,222 gross registered tons. This photo shows the launching of the ship on June 9, 1925. It was built by the […]
This photo shows sailors boarding a wooden lifeboat on the side of a large Royal Navy warship in World War II. Nautical terms: Amidships – halfway along the […]
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, […]
Mrs. Harriet Burnard (nee Sheppard) was 23 years old when she boarded S.S. Caribou with her 8-month-old daughter Shirley. Both mother and baby drowned when the ferry sank […]
William James Lundrigan was a prominent businessman in Corner Brook, Newfoundland during World War II. He was born in 1901 in Blaketown, Newfoundland. His account of surviving the […]
This undated photo shows seven ship’s officers in uniform aboard S.S. Caribou as well as three other men in civilian clothes.
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. […]
This undated photo shows Captain Benjamin Taverner and a crewman on the bridge of S.S. Caribou. Captain Ben Taverner (1880-1942) was a mariner, born in Trinity, Trinity Bay, […]
Photos shows 15-month-old Leonard Shiers, held by his rescuer Ralph Rogers, on the stern of H.M.C.S. Grandmere on October 14, 1942. Both Leonard and his mother, Gladys Shiers, […]
