HIBISCUS convoy sloop Flower-class Aubretia-type ordered 1216 Aubretia and Anchusa-types built to look like merchant ships with concealed armament T42 118.

Merchant ship ww1. Torpedoed by German submarine U-30. ON I 223-M Merchant Ship Shapes is one of a series of handbooks on ships and their identification and reporting prepared by the Division of Naval Intelligence for the use of fighting forces and naval personnel in training. Consult the Crew List Index Project CLIP website which has information about merchant ships from 1861 to 1913.

In 1939 a third of the worlds merchant ships were British and. This resulted in the deaths of 320 Australians serving with the Australian Merchant Navy from a total of 36 833 merchant mariners of the Commonwealth. Distance was a still greater complicating factor.

An article in the December 2018 edition of this magazine on Victoria Crosses makes no mention of the award to civilian recipients in particular two Mercantile Marine1officers. CategoryWorld War I merchant ships. Fourteen of these ships were lost in WWI but they were lost in large numbers during WWII.

The Great naval leader Admiral William Snowden Sims. Generally speaking U-boat commanders behaved correctly with the crews of the Spanish ships they sank giving warning and time to abandon ship. Consult the Miramar Ship Index website a historical database listing some categories of merchant and naval ships.

283 rows Cargo Ships Built for Britain. Over the course of the war the French merchant marine transported roughly 630000 men 76000 horses and 1460000 tons of supplies for the Dardanelles and Salonika fronts. The French Salonika expedition alone consumed about 20 percent of Frances merchant ships.

Britains merchant fleet was the largest in the world during both world wars. The Register provides information about all sea-going merchant ships including their condition. In order to win the war it was vital that the Allies were able to move troops food and equipment by sea.