RCN gun crews manning Defensively Equipped Merchant Ships (DEMS)

Defensively Equipped Merchant Ships (DEMS) ‍ (Library and Archives Canada Photo, MIKAN No. 3394508) BL 4-inch Mk VII low-angle gun on a DEMS in 1943. This was an obsolete First World War gun typical of Second World War DEMS armament.  Canada placed guns on 713 ships, Old naval guns had been stored since 1918 in ports … Read more