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.

David McMillan

David McMillan, one of Stanley Park's radio officers, operates radio equipment aboard another Canadian merchant ship, the SS Wascana Park.

McMillan, wearing headphones and operating the telegraph key used to send messages in Morse code, served as a radio officer aboard Canadian merchant ships during and after the Second World War. The sleeve of his service dress jacket has the merchant navy's distinctive rank insignia near the cuff, as well as a "Canada" flash near the shoulder.

George Metcalf Archival Collection
CWM 19860141-032