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8.9K views · 43 reactions | Between 1939 and 1945 over 1700 Merchant Navy personnel lost their lives due to enemy action. This figure includes Canadian seamen who were lost while serving abroad including 278 Canadian and Allied ships. Over 70 Canadian Merchant ships were sunk, most in the Battle of the Atlantic. #BattleoftheAtlantic | Royal Canadian Navy | Facebook

Canada’s Merchant Navy endured the onslaught of enemy attacks during the six-year struggle for supremacy of North Atlantic shipping routes from the beginning to the end of the Second World War (1939-45) while transporting the materiel, provisions and personnel needed to win the war. With the dangers of the open sea, Allied Merchant Navies and their crew faced the daunting task of navigating enemy-infested waters to make perilous yet imperative trans-Atlantic crossings that were essential to the