HMCS SKEENA -River class destroyer, grounded and lost during a gale in Reykjavik, Iceland on 25 October 1944. Of the destroyers ship’s company of 181, fifteen sailors were killed. SKEENA had been on patrol south of Iceland in a full gale with HMCShips QU’APPELLE and ST. LAURENT when the escort group was ordered to return […]
Drifting Barges
HMCS TRENTONIAN takes in tow these two drifting fuel barges while in the English Channel on 5 August 1944. The drifting barges posed a serious collision threat to navigation. What should have been a simple evolution became extremely dangerous as TRENTONIAN and the barges drifted into a mine field. Fortunately the corvette and barges were […]