Topic: Ships and Units

[E.R. Campbell]

6 Feb 1943: HMCS Louisbourg

[airmich]

The Sailor’s Psalm

They that go down to the sea in ships
and occupy their business in great waters;
these men see the works of the Lord and His wonders in the deep.
For at His word the stormy wind ariseth which lifteth up the waters thereof.
They are carried up to heaven and down again to the deep;
their soul melteth away because of the trouble.
They reel to and fro, and stagger like a drunken man, and are at their wits’ end.

So when they cry unto the Lord in their trouble,
He delivereth them out of their distress.
For He maketh the storm to cease so that the waves thereof are still.
Then are they glad because they are at rest;
and so He bringeth them unto the haven where they would be.

(Psalm 107, verses 23-30)

 

[Baden Guy]

FYI:  http://members.shaw.ca/jollytar/WW2%20Ship%20Losses/Louisbourg.htm

[E.R. Campbell]

Leaving a UK port, just prior to a hasty and partial refit (in Londonderry) to prepare for Op. Torch in Feb 43.

[MARS]

LOUISBURG's Captain, LCdr W.F Campbell, RCNVR

[E.R. Campbell]

HMCS Louisburg: sunk by enemy torpedo bombers during OP Torch, 43 officers and men listed as "missing, presumed killed in action at sea," 6 Feb 43.

[mariomike]

HMCS Louisburg: sunk by enemy torpedo bombers during OP Torch, 43 officers and men listed as "missing, presumed killed in action at sea," 6 Feb 43.

http://img38.imageshack.us/img38/3185/louisburg.pdf
http://img38.imageshack.us/img38/7370/louisburg1.pdf
http://img641.imageshack.us/img641/169/louisburg2.pdf
http://img534.imageshack.us/img534/5373/louisburg3.pdf

In memory of all those who never came back, and to those who waited in vain for them to return from the sea:
http://www.navyband.navy.mil/Sounds/eternalfather.mp3

"The Halifax Memorial is one of those erected by the Commonwealth War Graves Commission to commemorate men and women of the forces of the Commonwealth who died in both world wars and have no known grave. It commemorates particularly those Canadian sailors, merchant seamen, soldiers and nursing sisters who lost their lives at sea, and also bears the names of men of the Canadian Army stationed in Canada who have no known grave. The memorial commemorates 274 casualties of the first world war (on panels one to three) and 2,847 from the Second World War (panels four to twenty-three). The present memorial is a replacement built in 1967. It was unveiled in November of that year, with naval ceremony, by H.P. MacKeen, Lieutenant-Governor of Nova Scotia, in the presence of R, Teillet, Minister of Veterans Affairs."

[MARS]

R.I.P Grandfather.

[E.R. Campbell]

And it is now 68 years since HMCS Louisburg was sunk by enemy torpedoes and bombs, near Oran,  during Operation Torch.

[E.R. Campbell]

HMCS Louisburg
Sunk by German torpedo bombers
During Operation TORCH, the invasion of North Africa
6 February 1943

They shall grow not old, as we that are left grow old:
Age shall not weary them, nor the years condemn.
At the going down of the sun and in the morning
We will remember them.

Act of Remembrance
From "For the Fallen"
By Robert Laurence Binyon