Photographs of
Sailor’s Statue
WW2 1939 – 1945
Halifax Nova Scotia
Located at Sackville Landing
Water Street at the foot of Sackville Street
GPS location: 44°38’49″N 63°34’15″W
Photographed on 19 August 2005
Photographed on 13 May 2005
Photographed on 13 May 2005
Plaque on east face
Photographed on 19 August 2005
50¢ stamp commemorating the 60th anniversary of the end of the Battle of the Atlantic,
officially unveiled 1 May 2005 at the Maritime Museum of the Atlantic, Halifax.
2 500 000 of these stamps were printed.
Battle of the Atlantic by Parks Canada
http://www.pc.gc.ca/apps/cp-nr/release_e.asp?bgid=398&andor1=bg
Battle of the Atlantic by Department of Veterans Affairs
http://www.vac-acc.gc.ca/general/sub.cfm?source=history/secondWar/atlantic
Rear-Admiral Desmond Piers Times of London, 5 Dec 2005
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/comment/obituaries/article745710.ece
Battle of the Atlantic Sunday by John Duerkop
A total of 75 Canadian and Newfoundland registered merchant ships
were lost or constructive total losses during World War Two.
The first Canadian merchant ship lost was the Danish owned but
Canadian manned freighter Erik Boye that was torpedoed with
no survivors in the North Atlantic 15 June 1940. The last was
the tanker Silver Star Park that was run down by another ship
while she was at anchor off New Bedford Massachusetts 12 April 1945.
Sixteen of her crew died…
http://stjohns.sasktelwebsite.net/atlantic.html
The Merchant Navy of Canada
About 12,000 sailors served in the Merchant Navy of Canada during WW2…
…an able seaman received $119.12 per month…
http://www.junobeach.org/e/4/can-tac-mer-e.htm
Canadian WW2 Merchant Ship Losses by Naval Museum of Manitoba
http://www.naval-museum.mb.ca/merch/mership.htm
Casualty List for Canadian Merchant Seamen WW2 by Billy McGee
Lists the names of 1,554 Canadian Merchant Seamen, lost during WW2
from Canadian, British and foreign ships, including British Seamen
lost on Canadian owned/managed ships…
http://casualtylist.tripod.com/
