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Anti-torpedo netting installed at Bell Island

Photo showing ore loading pier on Bell Island surrounded by anti-torpedo netting

Photo: Gerald Milne Moses; Boom Defence, Bell Island; June 2, 1943

Library and Archives Canada, Dept. of National Defence fonds, PA-183546

This photos shows the anti-torpedo netting installed in 1943 to protect ships loading iron ore at the Dominion and Scotia piers on Bell Island from submarine attack. This was called the boom defence. Also visible in the lower left is the damage to the Scotia pier caused by the torpedo fired by U-518 on November 2, 1942.