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List of merchant navy ships in ww2. According to the War Shipping Administration the US. AS1807 to Azalea City. PDF 951 MB 8.

RIGGS Able Seaman STANLEY SS. The failure of the Japanese to sail their merchant ships in convoy without adequate protection was one of the most appalling blunders in naval history which resulted in the loss of 63 of their merchant shipping and contributed to their losing the War. Only warships with a displacement of 1000tons or greater are listed.

Search Discovery our catalogue by name of person or ship in T 335 to find what the award was the persons rank at the time and the ship they were serving on. Son of James William and Mary Elizabeth Riggs of South Shields Co. Because both are produced annually some ships were too short-lived to be included and some foreign-registered vessels were omitted from the Register because of the difficulty of gathering information in wartime.

Lloyds Register of Shipping for the years 19391945 and the Mercantile Navy List British ships for 19391940 only as it was not published again until 1947. 166 rows The List of ships of the Second World War contains major military vessels of the war. These records come from The National Archives record series BT112 BT113 BT114 BT115 BT116 BT119 and BT120.

Nortraship had 1081 ships including 107 whale catchers at the beginning of the war with around 33 000 seamen. For smaller vessels see also list of World War II ships of less than 1000 tons. Merchant Marine suffered the highest rate of casualties of any service in World War II.

Of the 5150 Allied merchant vessels sunk during WWII 2828 were sunk by Axis submarines. Officially a total of 1554 ships were sunk due to war conditions including 733 ships of over 1000 gross tons. 67 rows PDF 7218 MB 7.