Merchant Seamen Survivors <br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> The role of merchant seamen during WWII is sometimes overlooked. They played an important role in ensuring the safe delivery of supplies across the North Atlantic during perilous times and in dangerous sub-infested waters. This photo shows a group of merchant seamen survivors from two torpedoings who reached St. Johns in Sept 1942. During March of 1943 about 70 German U-Boats were patrolling the North Atlantic between Labrador and Greenland. During the height of the Battle of the Atlantic, from 1940 to 1943, 85,775 ships crossed the Atlantic to and from Britain in 2889 escorted merchant convoys. Merchant seamen were our unsung heroes.<br /> (Reference: The Canadians at War, 1939/45. Vol. 1, 1969)<br /> <br /> John Cornick<br /> Halifax, Nova Scotia   Submitted By: John Cornick