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Unexploded shells on a Bell Island shipwreck

a dozen artillery shell on the deck of a submerged shipwreck

Photo: from video by Canadian Forces Combat Camera

© Her Majesty The Queen in Right of Canada, represented by the Department of National Defence, 2019

Unexploded artillery shells on the stern deck of one of the Bell Island shipwrecks. The shells were collected by clearance divers from the Royal Canadian Navy’s Fleet Diving Unit (Atlantic). The shells were for the stern gun on the ship during World War II. The shells were removed by the Navy in 2019 to make the shipwreck safer for recreational scuba divers to explore.