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HMCS MATAPEDIA

HMCS SKEENA - Survived the grounding/wreck of HMCS SKEENA

(WB01-WB02) Shore Leave - A Run Ashore with the girlfriends

No one in these two photos are identified and it is not known which ship(s) the sailors are off of.

Photos where the ship they were taken from is not known 

(WB03) Anti-Submarine nets - location unknown  (WB04.) Unknown corvette in ice-field. Note that the forward gun mount is not yet fitted  (WB05) Unknown corvette in the St. Lawrence River. Note that there are no guns fore and aft and the depth charge racks are empty

(WB06) HMCS ST CROIX  (WB07) Unknown Aircraft Carrier in convoy  (WB08) Aircraft Carrier HMS FURIOUS  (WB09) Battlecruiser HMS RENOWN  (WB10) Merchant Aircraft Carrier (MAC) RAPANA

(WB11) Catapult Aircraft Merchant ship (CAM) in convoy  (WB12) Defensively Equipped Merchant Ship (DEMS) in convoy  (WB13) DEMS at anchor - unknown location  (WB14) Merchant ship in convoy

HMCS MATAPEDIA

(WB15)"Pals - Tiss of MATAPEDIA, the other is from CHICOUTIMI"  (WB16) Clearing ice and snow off HMCS MATAPEDIA K112  (WB17) Unknown sailor on HMCS MATAPEDIA K112 painting the depth charge thrower mount  (W17) Funnel Watch on HMCS MATAPEDIA K112 on the cold North Atlantic  (WB19) "Lash up and Stow" - Unknown sailor on HMCS MATAPEDIA K112

 (WB20) Gunshield art on HMCS MATAPEDIA K112  (WB21) Unknown sailor by the depth charge thrower on HMCS MATAPEDIA K112  (WB22) Sailors holding HMCS MATAPEDIA'S tally plate.  Names listed are assumed to be L-R.  Fricke (from Cape Breton), T. Lawless (from Newfoundland), Sloan (from Montreal), and Hitchcock (from Vancouver)  (WB23) Tuphon, ASDIC (from Toronto)  (WB24) Unidentified sailor in a bosn's chair 

(WB25-WB26) HMCS MATAPEDIA K112 partial crew photo  (WB27) HMCS MATAPEDIA K112 Chiefs and Petty Officers  (WB28-WB29)) HMCS MATAPEDIA K112 - Officers

  (WB30-WB33) Unknown sailors on HMCS MATAPEDIA K112

(WB34) John H. Gordon, Chief Skipper, RCNR. Served in MATAPEDIA in 1941-1942  (WB35) Robert Southam, Lt, RCNVR. Served in MATAPEDIA in 1941  (WB36) Max Bernays on HMCS MATAPEDIA K112  (WB37) William Flavelle, SLt, RCNVR. Served in MATAPEDIA 1941-9142  (WB38) Ronald J. Herman, Lt, RCNR - 1st CO of HMCS MATAPEDIA

(WB39) William Belling (left) with S.T. Pop Gower of Winnipeg  (WB40-WB43) Unknown sailors on HMCS MATAPEDIA K112

(WB44) Unknown sailors by the depth charge rails on HMCS MATAPEDIA K112  (WB45) Unknown sailors by the forward gun of HMCS MATAPEDIA K112  (WB46) Unknown sailors giving HMCS MATAPEDIA'S mascot a bath  (WB47) Unknown sailor cleaning the twin .50 cal machine gun on HMCS MATAPEDIA K122  (WB48) Unknown sailors posing by HMCS MATAPEDIA'S gunshield art

(WB49-WB51) Unknown sailors on HMCS MATAPEDIA K112  (WB52) Unknown sailor painting from one of the ship's life rafts  (WB53) William Belling on the bandstand (after gun tub) of HMCS MATAPEDIA K112

(WB54-WB55) HMCS MATAPEDIA'S boat crew recovering an overturned whaler  (WB56) Looking aft on HMCS MATAPEDIA while in harbour at St. John's, Newfoundland  (WB57) HMCS MATAPEDIA K112 transiting the St. Lawrence near Quebec City.  The Quebec City bridge is visible in the distance  (WB58) Piper (foreground) playing aboard HMCS MATAPEDIA K112

(WB59) HMCS MATAPEDIA K112 in refit  (WB60-WB62) Unknown sailors by HMCS MATAPEDIA K112 while she is in refit

(WB63) HMCS SNOWBERRY K166 (left side of photo) with convoy ships in the background  (WB64-WB66) Iceberg Alley of Newfoundland  (WB67) Convoy in the morning ...

(WB68-WB69) North Atlantic Convoy seen from HMCS MATAPEDIA K112  (WB70-WB71) HMCS MATAPEDIA K112 conducting a stern fueling while in convoy  (WB72) Lough Foyle light

(WB73) Photo caption says "Corvette leaving Sydney Harbour" - however, background looks more like the scenery along the River Foyle  (WB74) "Busy harbour" - St. John's Newfoundland.  HMCS BADDECK K147 and RN sub P554. Taken from HMCS MATAPEDIA K112

HMCS SKEENA

(WB74-WB76) Christmas in HMCS SKEENA

No sailors in these four photos are identified

(WB77) HMCS SKEENA I59  (WB78-WB80) HMCS SKEENA conducting ASW training  (WB81) HMCS SKEENA stern fueling from an unknown aircraft carrier

(WB82) Cooks and Stewards on HMCS SKEENA  (WB83) HMCS SKEENA'S boat's crew assisting in the recovery of a training torpedo  (WB84) Allied Submarine N34 passed by HMCS SKEENA  (WB85) Unknown sailors on HMCS SKEENA  (WB86) USS ALABAMA seen from HMCS SKEENA - location unknown

(WB87) Article on 5 survivors from HMCS SKEENA - Sto Harold French, AB Wilbert Brown, L/SA Stewart McRae, Sto Joseph Bell and LS W. Belling  (WB88) William Belling at the rededication of the bell from HMCS SKEENA (1st of name) in Burlington Ontario circa 1983. Photographer Kevin Lee  (WB89) William Belling at the rededication of the bell from HMCS SKEENA (1st of name). William Belling is wearing light grey jacket. Photographer Kevin Lee

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