Grim Atlantic Now Fight At Home As Well As Abroad

The protection of convoys through the danger zones of the North shores. Thus the tense Watch now begins from the moment the ships

Atlantic is a cold and hazardous job at best. But these danger leave port. Welcome break in_the cold vigils on wind-swept (lUUlfi zones have extended until they are only a few miles off Canada’s comes (inset) when the cook dishes up stealmng bowls of hot soup.

With the grim sea war brought to Canada's Atlantic doorway, the staunch men of the Canadian Navy have had to shoulder a new burden. Here an officer, speckled mth frozen spray, is shmvn as he shouts above the gale through his megaphone.

Spotting the enemy’s prowling U-boats are the keen men who sit at the listening a posts of Canada's warships, constantly on the alert. Once asubmarine is detected by these delicate devices, the corvettes and destroyers close in for the kill.

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Terror of the IIun “Unterseeboote" is the depth charge, now carried have been ‘blasted to destruction by these charges. Here one is Show" to the seas in growing quantities by Canada's expanding fleet o]? Inn-ling tons of water skyward off the East Coast. These bombs arc

warships. Until peace comes, no one will knowhow many submarines adjusted to explode at a predetermined depth near enemy U-boal-

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hick from the hardships and damzers of the sen, one of Canndzrs firzhtimz little Lvokllln‘ 1'01‘ trouble. a speedy little corvette races seaward, dark Navy officials are frankly puzzled to how enemy subs "Te “me ('(ll'\'l‘tt<‘~' lies muorvtl at port, decks and superstructure heavily laden with ice. "ml 211W fllIfllll-‘it U"? ‘Yllltcl’ Skles- These “TISPY Ships are doing to operate in this latitude at this season and suspect develop-

Flung like a lash. by the biting winter wind, the spray freezes where it lands. Bllflelll SOPViCC ill clearing U-boats from Canada's coastal waters. ment of new “(lv-lliillg” llpmratus to clear neriseopes and hatches-