Post by Administrator on Oct 14, 2017 20:23:24 GMT
The struggle on the Atlantic between Allied navies and German submarines brought the naval war into Canada, turning the river and Gulf of St. Lawrence into a battleground. On October 14, 1942, the ferry SS Caribou and 137 passengers and crew, among them women and children, were lost when the German submarine U-69 torpedoed the ship.
Caribou was a passenger ferry operating between Port-aux-Basques, Newfoundland, and Sydney, Nova Scotia. Torpedoed in the Cabot Strait between the two ports, Caribou sank in four minutes. This print commemorates Caribou and the 31 members of its 46-person crew lost in the sinking. This led to popular outrage in Newfoundland and Canada over the targeting of a passenger ferry.
Memorial Poster
CWM 19900076-632
Canadian War Museum
Caribou was a passenger ferry operating between Port-aux-Basques, Newfoundland, and Sydney, Nova Scotia. Torpedoed in the Cabot Strait between the two ports, Caribou sank in four minutes. This print commemorates Caribou and the 31 members of its 46-person crew lost in the sinking. This led to popular outrage in Newfoundland and Canada over the targeting of a passenger ferry.
Memorial Poster
CWM 19900076-632
Canadian War Museum