{"id":4751,"date":"2020-04-07T08:39:42","date_gmt":"2020-04-07T11:39:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tridentnewspaper.com\/?p=4751"},"modified":"2020-04-07T10:39:56","modified_gmt":"2020-04-07T13:39:56","slug":"key-events-battle-atlantic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tridentnewspaper.com\/fr\/key-events-battle-atlantic\/","title":{"rendered":"Key events of the Battle of the Atlantic: April"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_4754\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-4754\" style=\"width: 2798px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-4754\" src=\"https:\/\/tridentnewspaper.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/BOA-April-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2798\" height=\"1415\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tridentnewspaper.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/BOA-April-1.jpg 2798w, https:\/\/tridentnewspaper.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/BOA-April-1-300x152.jpg 300w, https:\/\/tridentnewspaper.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/BOA-April-1-768x388.jpg 768w, https:\/\/tridentnewspaper.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/BOA-April-1-1024x518.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/tridentnewspaper.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/BOA-April-1-650x329.jpg 650w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2798px) 100vw, 2798px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-4754\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">HMCS Athabaskan G07 is seen in an undated photo. The ship was commissioned on February 3, 1943 and sunk on April 29, 1944 off the coast of France.<br \/>CFB ESQUIMALT NAVAL &amp; MILITARY MUSEUM<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<h3 class=\"p1\">Key events of the Battle of the Atlantic: April<\/h3>\n<p class=\"p1\"><b>By CPO1 (ret&#8217;d) Pat Devenish,<br \/>\n<\/b>Canadian Naval Memorial Trust<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><b>April 1, 1938 &#8211; <\/b>As a prelude to war, Halifax Harbour, deemed a military priority, receives RCAF No. 116 Auxiliary Squadron, later formed as a Coast Artillery Cooperation Unit. Its primary role: spotting various seaward targets and directing the many coastal batteries protecting the harbour. Upon declaration of war, No 116 is disbanded due to obsolete and insufficient aircraft. \u2018A\u2019 Flight of No. 118 Squadron based out of St. John, New Brunswick remains the sole air defence umbrella until November of 1939 when RCAF No. 1 Fighter Squadron is formed at RCAF Station Dartmouth flying Hawker Hurricanes. In turn, No. 1 Squadron is sent overseas for the Battle of Britain in March of 1940. It would be August of that year before No. 118 Squadron would fly steady cover over the harbour approaches and three more months before they would receive modern aircraft; P-40 Kittyhawks. Eastern Air Command, which stretched east from the Ontario-Manitoba border to include Newfoundland, would set up 30 radar sights and establish 22 air stations, including 13 Bomber Reconnaissance and 8 Fighter Squadrons. Of these, RCAF Station Dartmouth (now Shearwater) would become home to 9 Bomber Reconnaissance and 5 Fighter Squadrons at the height of the war.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_4755\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-4755\" style=\"width: 292px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-4755\" src=\"https:\/\/tridentnewspaper.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/BOA-April-2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"292\" height=\"230\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tridentnewspaper.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/BOA-April-2.jpg 2956w, https:\/\/tridentnewspaper.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/BOA-April-2-300x236.jpg 300w, https:\/\/tridentnewspaper.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/BOA-April-2-768x605.jpg 768w, https:\/\/tridentnewspaper.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/BOA-April-2-1024x806.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/tridentnewspaper.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/BOA-April-2-650x512.jpg 650w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 292px) 100vw, 292px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-4755\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">LCdr John Stubbs\u2019 gravestone is seen, along with the gravestones of some his sailors who perished at sea alongside him, at the Plouescat Communal Cemetery in Finistere, France.<br \/>MUS\u00c9E NAVAL D'HALIFAX<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p class=\"p1\"><b>April 4, 1941 &#8211; <\/b>Order in Council PC 2385; The Merchant Seaman Order, is introduced in Federal cabinet in Ottawa empowering Canadian authorities to remove, by force if deemed necessary, any troublesome crew members from foreign or Canadian vessels, regardless of registry while they are in Canadian ports. This new ruling would stand the test of time in November 1943 when the belligerence of the crew of the burning munitions freighter S.S. Volunteer nearly caused a repeat of the 1917 Halifax explosion.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><b>April 7, 1941 &#8211; <\/b>Off the coast of Sierra Leone, West Africa, the Canadian merchantman Portadoc is torpedoed and sunk by U-124. The crew of the submarine tends to the wounded, repairs the lifeboat and gives Portodoc\u2019s crew a heading to Freetown.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0 <\/span>Though the crew survives and makes it to land, they come ashore in French Guinnea, loyal to the Vichy French government, subsequently becoming Prisoners of War.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0 <\/span>Months later, a prisoner exchange is arranged and the survivors are permitted to &#8220;march&#8221; to the Sierra Leone border to be repatriated to Canada by years end. By then, however, seven more of Portadoc&#8217;s crew have succumbed to the elements.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><b>April 1, 1942 &#8211;<\/b> The Canadian merchantman Robert W. Pomeroy strikes a mine off Cromer, England in the North Sea and sinks with the loss of one of her crew of 23.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><b>April 8, 1942 &#8211; <\/b>The Park Steamship Company is established out of Montreal to coordinate Canada&#8217;s merchant fleet of ships built by Canadian shipyards and administer the movement of material by sea. Work is then contracted out to shipping agents and companies. By war\u2019s end, 182 \u2018Park\u2019 class merchant ships would be built in Canadian shipyards.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><b>April 20, 1942 &#8211; <\/b>In the Caribbean off the Turks and Caicos Islands, the Canadian merchantman Vineland is torpedoed and then subjected to surface gunfire from U-154, finally sinking with the loss of one of her crew of 37.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><b>April 27, 1942 &#8211; <\/b>In the House of Commons in Ottawa, a plebiscite is held to determine the necessity for conscription. After much discussion and political in-fighting, it is decided that conscription will be implemented &#8216;if necessary&#8217;.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><b>April 14, 1944 &#8211; <\/b>The River class frigate HMCS <i>Swansea<\/i> in consort with HMS <i>Pelican<\/i> coordinate their efforts to sink U-448 in the North Atlantic northeast of the Azores.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><b>April 22, 1944 &#8211; <\/b>HMC Ships <i>Matane<\/i> et <i>Swansea<\/i> attack U-311 in the mid-Atlantic, however there is no evidence of a confirmed kill. It is not until well after the war when, German submarine records are examined, that <i>Matane<\/i> et <i>Swansea<\/i> are credited with the sinking. This is the third U-boat sinking for the crew of HMCS <i>Swansea<\/i> in the past six weeks; U-845 on March 10th, U-448 on April 14th and U-311 just eight days later.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><b>April 25, 1944 &#8211; <\/b>HMC Ships <i>Haida, Athabaskan <\/i>et<i> Huron<\/i> along with the British destroyer HMS<i> Ashanti<\/i> and cruiser HMS<i> Black Prince<\/i> are formed into Force 26, part of the 10th Destroyer Flotilla. Almost immediately, they are dispatched to intercept three German destroyers suspected to be sailing from St. Malo off France&#8217;s northern coast.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0 <\/span>In a spectacular nighttime action, several hits on an unknown number of German ships are observed and the German destroyer <i>T-29<\/i> is sunk and destroyers <i>T-24<\/i> et <i>T-27<\/i> limp back to Brest both having suffered hits. It is during the jockeying to fire on the mortally wounded <i>T-29<\/i> that <i>Ashanti<\/i> rams <i>Huron <\/i>leaving <i>Haida<\/i> et <i>Athabaskan<\/i> alone to bear the brunt of responsibility in the coming days.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><b>April 29, 1944 &#8211; <\/b>HMC Ships<i> Haida<\/i> et <i>Athabaskan<\/i> in action north of Brest, France come under heavy enemy fire from the two German destroyers remaining from the previous day\u2019s action. In the melee, <i>Athabaskan<\/i> is hit but does not lose power and continues to fight. An explosion aft lights up the sky and <i>Athabaskan<\/i> is doomed. She sinks with the loss of 128 men including her Captain, LCdr J.H. Stubbs. <i>Haida <\/i>continues the fight and one of the German destroyers, <i>T-27<\/i> is run up on a beach damaged from gunfire and the second, <i>T-24,<\/i> escapes also suffering damage. <i>Haida<\/i> returns to the point of <i>Athabaskan<\/i>&#8216;s demise and picks up survivors before heading west to the safety of the British coastal waters 100 miles away. Along with the deaths of 128 of her crew, 86 more <i>Athabaskan<\/i> crew members are taken prisoner.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><b>April 16, 1945 &#8211; <\/b>Conducting minesweeping and anti-submarine patrols off Halifax harbour, HMCS <i>Esquimalt<\/i> is torpedoed and sunk off Sambro Island by U-190 with the loss of 44 of her crew. Striking her stern on, the torpedo obliterates the entire after end of the ship and it sinks beneath the waves in less than four minutes. Though several aircraft overfly the area and two other minesweepers pass within two miles, it is only after being in the water for more than six hours that survivors are rescued by HMCS <i>Sarnia<\/i>. <i>Esquimalt<\/i> has the dubious honour of being the last RCN vessel lost to enemy action in the Second World War.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0 <\/span>Ironically, on May 12th, U-190 would be escorted into Bays Bull, Newfoundland by HMC Ships <i>Victoriaville<\/i> et <i>Thorlock<\/i> and on June 4th, into St. John\u2019s as a war prize.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Key events of the Battle of the Atlantic: April By CPO1 (ret&#8217;d) Pat Devenish, Canadian Naval Memorial Trust April 1, 1938 &#8211; As a prelude to war, Halifax Harbour, deemed a military priority, receives RCAF No. 116 Auxiliary Squadron, later formed as a Coast Artillery Cooperation Unit. 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