Of the 5150 Allied merchant vessels sunk during.

Merchant navy ships ww2. Office of the Chief of Naval Operations Washington D. The Allies defence against and eventual victory over the U-boats in the Battle of the Atlantic was based on three main factors. Jaegersborg Aagenes Gustav.

166 rows The List of ships of the Second World War contains major military vessels of the war. Britains merchant fleet was the largest in the world during both world wars. These civilian volunteers sailed the ships that delivered troops military equipment and vital cargoes of food fuel and raw materials across the worlds oceans.

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 ships. This collection details over 9000 awards made to those who served in the Merchant Navy from 1939-45. British propaganda poster Several thousand New Zealanders served in the Merchant Navy during the Second World War.

The Book of Remembrance. Japanese Merchant Navy 1 152 Ships sunk. ON I 223-M Merchant Ship Shapes is one of a series of handbooks on ships and their identification and reporting.

The losses to shipping escalated until 1942 when at last the Allies were able to tilt the balance. In October 1941 the U. When these exploded hundreds of mariners navy sailors.

Air attack sank 17 Allied merchant ships with a loss of more than 1000 lives. In 1939 a third of the worlds merchant ships were British and. The convoy system in which merchant ships were herded across the North Atlantic and elsewhere in vast formations of up to 60 ships.