From the September 9, 2013, Comox Valley (Can.) record " Memorial for Sunken World War ship finds home in Comoc" by Earl Couper.
The Alberni Project-- HMCS (His Magesty's Canadian Ship) Alberni Memorial opened in Comox Centre Mall on September 1st. It is run by TAP, devoted to the preservation of the events of the battle between the Canadian corvette HMCS Alberni and the German submarine U--480.
Also in the exhibit is the role of Canadian women in the war.
The HMCS Alberion sailed from Esquimalt through the Panama Canal and joined the Royal Navy's Atlantic Fleet in Halifax in 1941. and was assigned to the Newfoundland Escort Force protecting Allied convoys across the North Atlantic, including Convoy SC42 and others.
In 1943, the Alberni was assigned to Operation Torch in the Mediterranean and later Fleet Operation Overlord (the invasion of Normandy) in the spring of 1944.
The ship was torpedoes by the U-480 in the British Channel 25 nautical miles southeast of St. Catherine's Point, Isle of Wight at 11:45 a.m. on August 21, 1944, while escorting a convoy.
Fifty-nine crew died after the torpedo struck the port side of the engine room and it sank in less than a minute.
--GreGen
The USS North Carolina (BB-55) My all-time favorite warship. As an elementary school student in North Carolina, I donated nickels and dimes to save this ship back in the early sixties.
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