It was on this date October 14, 1942, that the SS Caribou was Sunk by German U-boat in the Gulf of St. Lawrence.
The SS Caribou was a Newfoundland Railway passenger ferry that ran between Port aux Basques, in the Dominion of Newfoundland, and North Sydney, Nova Scotia between 1928 and 1942.
The ship was 81 metres in length, had a speed of 14.5 knots, and carried a crew of 46.
At the time of the sinking, the Caribou was part of the Sydney-Port aux Basque's convoy,organized by the Royal Canadian Navy base HMCS Protector.
At 3:51 a.m. she was torpedoed approximately 37 km southwest of Port aux Basques and sunk five minutes later.
Caribou was carrying 46 crew members and 191 civilian and military passengers. 137 people died that morning.