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Painting: ASDIC Hut, His Majesty’s Canadian Ship Drumheller

painting of three sailors in ASDIC (sonar) room of Royal Canadian Navy corvette

Tom Wood: ASDIC HUT, CORVETTE, HIS MAJESTY’S CANADIAN SHIP DRUMHELLER

CWM 19710261-4841

Beaverbrook Collection of War Art, Canadian War Museum, Ottawa

This painting depicts three sailors in the ASDIC (sonar) hut aboard a Royal Canadian Navy corvette. Two of the sailors are wearing headphones and listening for submerged enemy submarines.

The Flower-class corvette HMCS Drumheller took part in the search for the German U-boat in Conception Bay immediately after the second Bell Island attack on November 2, 1942.

Painting by Tom Wood, official war artist with the Royal Canadian Navy, 1944.