Log Books Agreements and Crew Lists after 1861NB.

Armed merchant ships ww2. Along with the merchant raider the armed merchant cruiser has the longest history of any fighting vessel. See the Archives Research Guide. Development and History.

Official logs are not a daily diary of ships movements. At one time they were taken in to port and spaces unoccupied by. The Luftwaffe was supplied with the new Focke-Wulf Condor in its attacks on merchant ships in the Western Approaches and soldiers were assigned to deep sea vessels armed with Bofors 40 mm56.

Britain armed merchant ships in World War II to provide additional warships for duties such as convoy escort and stopping merchant ships suspected of aiding the enemy. Armed merchant cruiser Originally liners for Canadian National Steamships these formerly 3-funnelled ships were purchased in 1939-40 and extensively converted. From Wikimedia Commons the free media repository English.

The British Armed Merchant Cruiser HMS Jervis Bay. In Operation Mulberry about 1000 American mariner volunteers sailed 22 obsolete merchant ships Blockships to be sunk as artificial harbors at. 20 rows The armed merchant cruiser HMS Salopian F 94 of the Royal Navy.

Navy Armed Guard was a service branch of the United States Navy that was responsible for defending US. Crew agreements and official logs for all British-registered merchant ships and some allied ships with British crew for the period 19391950 are held by The National Archives. The POs ss Canton as an Armed Merchant Cruiser on Convoy Escort Duties during WW2.

And Allied merchant ships from attack by enemy aircraft submarines and surface ships during World War II. Requisitioned by the Admiralty on 19th October 1939 for service as an armed merchant cruiser and converted by her builders at Glasgow she was fitted with eight 6-inch and two 3. List of the fifteen Armed Merchant Cruisers lost in WW2.