Group Archives | When World War II Came to Bell Island, Newfoundland

Scuba Divers Commemorate Remembrance Day on Shipwreck

A group of scuba divers place a cross with poppies on the P.L.M. 27 shipwreck for Remembrance Day 2017. Ocean Quest Adventures takes local scuba divers out to […]

Video of Canadian Forces divers removing unexploded shells

Video of clearance divers from the Royal Canadian Navy’s Fleet Diving Unit (Atlantic) removing unexploded artillery shells (also called unexploded ordnance or UXO) from two of the Bell […]

Video of German U-boat attacks at Bell Island in 1942

Video shows German newsreel of U-boat crews attacking Allied merchant ships with torpedoes. Transcript of narration: On September 4th 1942, U-513 under the command of captain Rolf Ruggeberg […]

Marita and Barry Collings donate U-boat Commander’s artifacts

Marita Collings (right) and Barry Collings (centre) donating Rolf Rüggeberg’s Navy medals, badges and photographs to the Bell Island Community Museum on July 6, 2010. Rüggeberg was commander […]

Tank production at the Montreal Locomotive Works

Canadian industry switched to war production during World War II. For example, the Montreal Locomotive Works produced tanks for the Canadian Army. Manufacture of trucks, tanks, airplanes, ships, […]

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

U-518 in Bordeaux in 1943

Emblem on conning tower is for the 2nd U-boat Flotilla

Officers of U-518 in 1943

Five German U-boat officers in uniform. U-boat commander Friedrich-Wilhelm Wissmann (centre)

U-513 and crew departing a French port

German Navy officer waving on shore

U-513 and crew at Kiel, Germany

showing her Viking ship emblem on the conning tower