Front of Seaman’s Memorial monument, Lance Cove, Bell Island
Photo:
© Neil Burgess 2019
The front of the stone monument in the Seaman’s Memorial provides a summary of the U-boat attacks and sinkings in 1942 at Bell Island in English and French.
The monument refers to 69 sailors killed in the sinkings. Current evidence indicates instead that 65 sailors died here in 1942.