Canada's Naval History

The Second World War
The Merchant Navy - SS Stanley Park: Merchant Ship

David McMillan's photographs capture wartime and early postwar merchant navy scenes and experiences, mainly aboard the Canadian merchant ship SS Stanley Park. Completed in mid-1943, the Stanley Park was one of around 400 merchant ships built as part of Canada's war effort; postwar, it served with a number of foreign owners until its 1969 scrapping in Italy.

Towing SS Noranda Park, September 1945

Sailors lounge on the SS Stanley Park's deck while their ship tows another Canadian merchant ship, the SS Noranda Park.

In September 1945, the Stanley Park towed the Noranda Park from Pointe-Noire, in the Congo, to Lagos, Nigeria. Two towing lines can just be seen running between the ships. The Stanley Park's 4-inch gun, no longer necessary in peacetime, is now a rack for drying clothing.

George Metcalf Archival Collection
CWM 19860141-048