General Archives | Page 7 of 9 | When World War II Came to Bell Island, Newfoundland

DOSCO report on need for coastal defence of Bell Island

Extracts from a report of October 16, 1939 by J.A. Macdonald for the Dominion Steel and Coal Corporation (DOSCO) on the need for coastal defences at Bell Island. […]

U-513 with iceberg off Newfoundland in 1942

Photo from U-boat commander Rolf Rüggeberg’s personal collection. Probably taken in late August, 1942 in the Strait of Belle Isle off northern Newfoundland. Photo taken from the bow […]

Damaged conning tower of U-513

Photo from U-boat commander Rolf Rüggeberg’s personal collection. It shows the extensive damage to the U-boat conning tower caused by its submerged collision with SS Lord Strathcona on […]

U-513 Commander Rolf Rüggeberg

Photo from U-boat commander Rolf Rüggeberg’s personal photograph collection. It is an informal portrait of U-513 commander Rüggeberg wearing his working uniform aboard the submarine.

English translation of U-513 logbook for September 5, 1942 attacks

U-513 logbook extracts from September 5, 1942: “16.02 – Two bow shots on the innermost freighter, at anchor … No detonation. Both torpedoes were not heard in the […]

U-518 at sea in 1943 (with U-180 behind)

Photo of German submarine U-518 at sea in 1943, with a second U-boat (U-180) in the background.

British Merchant Navy propaganda poster

Poster showing a British supply convoy in rough seas. Several merchant ships are escorted by a Royal Navy warship and two aircraft overhead. The slogan on the poster […]

Painting: ASDIC Hut, His Majesty’s Canadian Ship Drumheller

This painting depicts three sailors in the ASDIC (sonar) hut aboard a Royal Canadian Navy corvette. Two of the sailors are wearing headphones and listening for submerged enemy […]

British Merchant Navy recruiting poster

This recruiting poster shows a British Merchant Navy officer in uniform holding binoculars and a coxswain at the wheel of their cargo ship. The poster’s slogan reads: “The […]

Chart of numbers of German U-boats in operation and sunk in the Atlantic Ocean

A chart provided by British Naval Intelligence to British Prime Minister Winston Churchill in 1945. The bar chart shows the estimated number of German U-boats operating in the […]

Battle of the Atlantic: Allied shipping and U-boat losses, 1942-1943

A graph of the numbers of Allied & Neutral merchant ships and German U-boats sunk per month in the North Atlantic Ocean from January 1942 until December 1943. […]

Bell Island iron mine exports, 1935-1945

A graph showing tons of iron ore shipped per year to various countries from the mines of the Dominion Steel and Coal Corporation (DOSCO) on Bell Island, Newfoundland. […]