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Merchant Seamen on British coastal convoys 1940-45

A Very Different Experience: Merchant Seamen on British Coastal Convoys 1940-45'. Rosendahl, Bjorn Tore, Allied Merchant Seafarers in the Second World War ...

THE 'CREAM' OF THE BRITISH MERCHANT NAVY

“Your Worships, appearing before you today and pleading guilty” he commenced “we have the cream of the British Merchant Navy, who in a moment of great weakness ...

Researching seafaring ancestors in the First World War

The centralised registration of merchant seamen began in 1835 but was abandoned in 1857. Reintroduced in 1913, most of the records up until 1920 were mistakenly ...

Black West Indian Seamen in the British Merchant Marine in the Mid ...

Thus, it became an important alternative to plan- tation labour for thousands of Afro-Caribbean men during the nineteenth century. A merchant seaman's wages ...

Sailors - Maritime Archives

Crew lists & agreements for all ports in the British Isles, dated 1857 and earlier are held by the National Archives as is a 10% sample of records created in ...

How to use merchant navy records at Southampton Archives

Our collections include the Central Index Register of Merchant Seamen ... Personnel of the British Merchant Navy, 1918-1941 SHOW. John Ash, b ...

Survivors: British Merchant Seamen in the Second World War

After the authors set the stage, they demonstrate how ill-prepared the British merchant navy was to face the German onslaught, even after their experiences in ...

British Merchant Seamen in San Francisco, 1892-1898 - James Fell

British Merchant Seamen in San Francisco, 1892-1898 · From inside the book · Contents · Other editions - View all · Common terms and phrases · Bibliographic ...

Merchant Navy officer job profile | Prospects.ac.uk

Responsibilities · operate and maintain the mechanical and electrical equipment on board · manage power generation and distribution systems, as well as ...

The Merchant Navy in the Second World War - | NZ History

Merchant seafarers often found themselves in the front lines of the war at sea. Many ships were torpedoed or bombed; survivors sometimes spent ...

The Merchant Navy Association - Facebook

The Merchant Navy Association (MNA) was “launched” in 1989 and established a unique opportunity for seafarers to get together to form a countrywide consensus.

Royal Merchant Navy Education Foundation: Home | RMNEF

Royal Merchant Navy Education Foundation was established in 1827 as an Orphan Asylum, tasked with providing board and lodging for the orphans of British ...

Apply for or replace a medal or veterans badge - GOV.UK

You can apply for a UK merchant navy medal if you were a member of the merchant navy and you: served in a vessel used to support the UK armed forces ...

AN ATTEMPT TO PROVIDE A STANDARD DEATH-RATE FOR ...

British merchant seafarers 1900–2010: A history of extreme risks of mortality from infectious disease ... Citation Excerpt : Deaths that occurred several days ...

Merchant Seamen On Leave In London (1940) - YouTube

London. This is a duplicate of unissued item UN 1402 A Seamen on Leave in London' - Film ID 2068.01. There is no new footage found.

Unsung Heroes: The British Merchant Navy WW2

The British Merchant Navy was a term that applied to the employees of British shipping companies whose vessels ranged from the sleekest ...

Genealogical Fallout from the War of 1812 - National Archives

The British maintained that they had a right to use press gangs to forcibly recruit British seamen in port or on the high seas, and their ...

BRITISH MERCHANT SEAMEN AND THEIR DEPENDANTS FUND ...

FOR RELIEF OF NEEDY AND AGED SHIPMASTERS OFFICERS AND SEAMEN OF ALL RANKS OF THE BRITISH MERCHANT NAVY AND THEIR DEPENDATNS. (FOR DETAILS OF AMALGAMATIONS ...

The secret deportations: how Britain betrayed the Chinese men who ...

During the war, as many as 20,000 Chinese seamen worked in the shipping industry out of Liverpool. They kept the British merchant navy afloat, ...

Supplying Victory: The History of Merchant Marine in World War II

... Seamen's Union organized to represent merchant sailors ... German submarines attacked British merchant ships in the Atlantic, disrupting supply ...