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Icebreaker -Earnest LaPointe

ICE BREAKER EARNEST LAPOINTE

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The newly built icebreaker, Earnest LaPointe is brought in to free HMCShips TRENTONIAN, NORSYD and HMCTug NORTON from the ice in Quebec City in December 1943.  This icebreaker is now a museum ship at the MUSÉE MARITIME DU QUÉBEC, L’Islet, Québec.

Roger Litwiller Collection, Allen E. Singleton, RCNVR photo, courtesy Jack Harold, RCNVR. (RTL-JH045)

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