SS Lord Strathcona
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Wrecksite.eu, used with permission
The steamship Lord Strathcona was owned by the Dominion Shipping Company, a subsidiary of the Dominion Steel & Coal Corporation, which owned the Bell Island iron mines. The crew was mostly Canadian Merchant Navy sailors and three Royal Canadian Navy DEMS gunners. All the crew survived the sinking of the ship on September 5, 1942.