Merchant Navy vessels fly the Red Ensign and are regulated by the Maritime and Coastguard Agency MCA.

German merchant navy. Subcategories This category has the following 12 subcategories out of 12 total. The Turitella was the former German Gutenfels seized by the British at Alexandria when war broke out. Merchant ships of Germany include all merchant ships designed built or operated by Germany.

We hold a sample of these indentures a two month sample for every five years between 1824 and 1955. Detailed status of the German merchant fleet These statistics show for the preceding month numbers and gross tonnage GT of German-flagged ships for each individual ship type and the share of ships listed in the International Shipping Register ISR. The Merchant Navy February 25th 2012 Their job was to steam on and on and on which they did through thick and thin.

The Merchant Navy World War Two researched by Ian StockbridgeInternational Maritime Research and published by NUMAST contains the names of 32000 merchant seamen 1200 Maritime Royal Artillery gunners and as many RN personnel as possible who lost their lives on British merchant. In addition it shows how many of these ships were registered in the International Shipping Register ISR and how many ships temporarily sailed under foreign flags. G erman Navy forces included a pocket battleship six cruisers 14 destroyers torpedo boats and minesweepers for the landings at the six Norwegian ports with battlecruisers Scharnhorst and Gneisenau covering the two most northerly landings.

The first formal use of the title Merchant Navy came with the appointment of the Prince of Wales as Master of the Merchant Navy and Fishing Fleets in 1928. This photo was taken from the deck of the British Cruiser Arethusia. King George V bestowed the title of Merchant Navy on the British merchant shipping fleets following their service in the First World War.

The Book of Remembrance. Over 100000 German translations of English words and phrases. Although this core fleet took most interest the German Navy of WW1 was more.

The Bluecher sank with the loss of nearly a thousand sailors. As a ship of the -fels type she was a. Iltis was the former British merchant ship Turitella built in 1905 and captured by the German commerce raider Wolf on 27 January 1917.