3152 rows Aadum Enevold Jensen Merchant Navy.

Merchant navy ships ww2. When these exploded hundreds of mariners navy sailors. The title Merchant Navy was granted by King George V after the First World War to recognise the contribution made by merchant sailors. A tribute to the Allied Merchant Navy in WW2 this article describes the convoy tactic that was fundamental during the Battle of the Atlantic 19391945 as a defense against the German U-Boats and their so-called wolf packs.

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. The first Armed Guard were given their 3 weeks of training at Little Creek Virginia and the first trainees and their officers were ready to sail in November 1941 when Congress repealed the Neutrality Act. I would like to find more about my father life in the Merchant navy I know his ship went down in WW2 and there was 37 survivors I believe they were picked up by a fishing boat my dad was in hospital with broken ribs of some time after the war he was on the Queen of Bermuda and other ship.

The convoy system in which merchant ships were herded across the North Atlantic and elsewhere in vast formations of up to 60 ships. The losses to shipping escalated until 1942 when at last the Allies were able to tilt the balance. He then went on to BP oil tankers till he died in 1965.

The painstaking secret work of Allied signals intelligence especially the breaking of the U-boats sophisticated Enigma code which allowed the naval. ON I 223-M Merchant Ship Shapes is one of a series of handbooks on ships and their identification and reporting. In 1939 a third of the worlds merchant ships were British and.

The British Merchant Navy fleet was the largest in the world in 1939 and around 185000 men served in it during the war. 166 rows The List of ships of the Second World War contains major military vessels of the war. Air attack sank 17 Allied merchant ships with a loss of more than 1000 lives.

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. Jaegersborg Aagenes Gustav. 67 rows Various merchant ship cards.