Merchant Seamen on British coastal convoys 1940|45
Arctic Convoys - World War II Database
British merchant ship Harmatris, the civilian convoy commodore's flagship of Allied convoy ... British Royal Navy Captain J. F. Crombie. Elsewhere, Allied ...
The Convoy System and the Two Battles of the Atlantic (1914—18 ...
By the end of the Seven Years' War of 1756-63 the Admiralty had developed a finely-tuned system of convoys across the Atlantic to and from North ...
MERCHANT MARINE: Bottoms for Britain | TIME
The Navy needs merchantmen as auxiliaries, and it must get them when it needs them. The Merchant Marine needs ships for the deserted trade routes. They must be ...
Coastal Command Protects Merchant Convoys - HistoryNet
Britain's wartime convoy system had serious shortcomings. There were insufficient numbers of Royal Navy escort vessels, and only a few had the ...
The Battle of the Atlantic: The U-boat peril - World War Two - BBC
... British were able to move convoys in safe areas, away from the wolfpacks. ... convoys, and 'blacking out' coastal towns. A handful of U-boats ...
Arctic Convoys: The story of the SS Dover Hill in Russia 1943
In the Supplement to the London Gazette of Friday 8th October 1943 there was a list of names of nineteen Merchant Navy Officers and Men; five ...
Britain's Merchant Navy - Key Military
Britain's merchant fleet was independently operated, but on the outbreak of war the Ministry of Shipping, later part of the Ministry of War ...
Merchant Convoys in Victory at Sea - Warlord Community
Commerce Raiding was a primary strategy for many nations in World War Two… One of the main reasons to maintain a navy is to deny use of the ...
WORLD WAR II: JAPAN'S DISINTEREST IN MERCHANT SHIP ...
why the 20th century Japanese Navy with its strong ties to British ... In 1940, the Japanese Navy approved construction of four frigates for coastal defense.
United States Merchant Marine Research Guide | MARAD
2 Logs: Operational and signal logs of U.S. Navy armed guard units aboard merchant vessels, 1943-45). ... A list of merchant ships in the convoy; ...
Convoy System: 1940-1945 - Loyal Edmonton Regiment Museum
As a result, hundreds of merchant vessels were organized into convoys that departed from the ports of Halifax and Sydney, Nova Scotia. The Royal Canadian Navy ( ...
American Merchant Marine Men and Ships in World War II - USMM.org
Maurice Breen, who shot down a German bomber, received British Merchant Navy gunnery training in Great Britain. ... In 1940 the Merchant Marine numbered about ...
Crew listings - Ships hit by U-boats during WWII - uboat.net
Allied Merchant personnel. Letter: W. ; British, Waddell, Walter, Merchant Navy ; British, Waddingham, Victor Jack, RN ; British, Waddington, Edward, RN ; British ...
The Merchant Navy of Canada - Juno Beach Centre
Historians have often highlighted the essential and dangerous role played by the officers and sailors of Canada's Merchant Navy during the Battle of the ...
Turning point in Battle of the Atlantic - | NZ History
... Sea, through which Allied convoys shipped vital supplies to the Soviet Union. Britain was a maritime power with the world's largest merchant ...
Merchant Navy 1943 Help please - Ships Nostalgia
In March 1943, Burwell departed the UK with a convoy destined for Algiers. Mr. Owen recalls the ship being more of a liability than an asset ...
Coastal Convoys 1939–1945: The Indestructible Highway - Everand
The Quiet Heroes: British Merchant Seamen at War, 1939–1945. byBernard ... merchant service on coastal convoys before joining the Free French Navy in 1942.
The unfortunate fate of convoy HX-49 - Legion Magazine
... convoys headed for Great Britain in June 1940. The first convoy ... British and Allied Merchant Navy.” Advertisement. An error occurred ...
The secret deportations: how Britain betrayed the Chinese men who ...
They kept the British merchant navy afloat, and thus kept the people of Britain fuelled and fed while the Nazis attempted to choke off the ...
Barry Parsons || Merchant Navy Service 2020 - Facebook
Watch this special recording of Barry Parson, long-serving Maritime Museum volunteer guide, on the people of the sea in peacetime and at war ...