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Anti-torpedo netting installed at Bell Island

This photos shows the anti-torpedo netting installed in 1943 to protect ships loading iron ore at the Dominion and Scotia piers on Bell Island from submarine attack. This […]

HMCS Drumheller

Flower-class corvette Drumheller was a Royal Canadian Navy warship used for anti-submarine patrols and convoy escort in World War II. It carried a crew of 85, and was […]

Back of Seaman’s Memorial, Lance Cove, Bell Island

The back of the stone monument in the Seaman’s Memorial provides the names of the sailors who died in the U-boat attacks and sinkings of SS Saganaga, SS […]

Portsmouth Naval Memorial

Portsmouth Naval Memorial in Portsmouth, England commemorates Royal Navy sailors lost in wartime with no known grave. Names of the Royal Navy gunners who died in the sinkings […]

Badge of the British Merchant Navy

Badge of the British Merchant Navy. Worn by all sailors and veterans who served in the British Merchant Navy in wartime.

Badge of the Canadian Merchant Navy

Badge of the Canadian Merchant Navy. Worn by all sailors and veterans who served in the Canadian Merchant Navy in wartime.

Ensign of the Free French Naval Forces in World War II

Ensign of the Free French Navy in World War II. General Charles de Gaulle led the Free French Forces, which split from the French Government in Vichy, France […]

Logo of the Royal Navy of the United Kingdom

Halifax Memorial to Canadian Sailors Lost at Sea

The Halifax Memorial in Halifax, Nova Scotia commemorates Canadian Merchant Navy and Royal Canadian Navy sailors lost in wartime with no known grave. Names of Canadian Merchant Navy […]

Tower Hill Memorial to British Merchant Navy sailors

The Tower Hill Memorial in London, England commemorates British Merchant Navy seamen lost in wartime with no known grave. The names of British sailors lost when Saganaga was […]

SS Rose Castle loading iron ore at Scotia pier

SS Rose Castle loading iron ore from the Bell Island iron mines at the Scotia pier in 1942. Ore was carried in ore cars on rails from the […]

Cross-section of Bell Island iron mine shafts

This drawing shows how the shafts of the Bell Island iron mines extended more than five kilometres out under the Atlantic Ocean. Water pumps had to operate 24 […]