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NEPHEW OF A RCNVR HERO – PART VI

The last photo of Athabaskan G07’s ships company

WW2 Ship Photos

The following entry is a collection of ship photos from Willie’s logbook.

AB Willie Trickett is front and center with the monster grin. It was the Bay of Biscay where Athatbaskan was attacked by the new German glider bomb. If the German bomber had set the fuse properly, the ship and most of the crew would have been killed. During the sinking, the aft gun crews were all killed or injured.
Spitzbergen was a hotly contested northern Norway island that was important for helping to supply Russia during the Murmansk convoy supply runs.

Every sailor knows about ‘Paint Ship Routine’. This sailor is painting the barrel of the ‘A’ Gun far forward. Athabaskan G07 was painted in a broken paint scheme to camouflage the ship.
G07 with a one colour paint scheme. The photo with 261 on the side is HMCS Mackenzie – a Mackenzie class destroyer escort commissioned in 1962.
Another picture of G07. The photo of the ship pendant number 225 is a post-war photo of HMCS SIOUX – a V class destroyer.  During the war her pendant number was R64
A NDHQ photo of G07
The various ships of the 10th Division Force with best regards from Emile Beaudoin, a fellow Athabaskan POW.


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