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Piano from P.L.M. 27

This piano was sold by Captain Jean Baptiste Caharel of the P.L.M. 27 to Bell Islander Michael Kelly just the day before the ship was torpedoed and sunk […]

Locking ring from German torpedo, recovered in Bell Island Tickle

Locking ring that attached the warhead to a German G7e torpedo that was fired by the submarine U-518 on November 2, 1942 at the SS Rose Castle. This […]

Fairmile Motor Launch Q-060 in Conception Bay

Royal Canadian Navy’s Fairmile Motor Launch Q-060 in Job’s Cove, Conception Bay in 1942. Fairmile Motor Launches patrolled Conception Bay and Bell Island Tickle to defend against German […]

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-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 […]

U-518 at sea, photo taken from U-564

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Remains of German torpedo from U-518 that struck the Scotia pier

Bell Island workmen hold the aft section of German torpedo recovered beside ore-loading pier on Bell Island on November 3, 1942.

Loading a torpedo into U-518

U-boat tied up beside a supply ship