In June 1939 the Admiralty Trade Division established the Defensively Equipped Merchant Ship DEMS organisation.

Merchant ship in british empire. Term for a merchant ship operating in the British Empire often preceded by East or West. In The Merchant Ship in the British Atlantic 16001800 Phillip Reid refutes the long-held assumption that merchant ship technology in the British Atlantic during the two centuries of its development was static for all intents and purposes and that whatever incremental changes took place in it were inconsequential to the development of the British Empire and its offshoots. Launched on the 7th March 1878 at the shipyard of Messrs Harland Wolff of Belfast as the ss British Empire under the houseflag of the British Shipowners Company Limited of Liverpool.

Launched on 23 December 1942 and completed in April 1943. British merchant ships were first required to keep an official log under the Merchant Shipping Act of 1850 and logs start to appear among official records from 1852 onwards. Todays crossword puzzle clue is a quick one.

Or another word for a merchant ship 6 FLEET. Destined for the Far East trade she was to be commanded by Captain F. Indeed the only serious threat to the Royal and Merchant Navies were the sailors.

On 10 Jun 1940 the Cellina was seized at Gibraltar by Britain and renamed Empire Sailor by the Ministry of War Transport MoWT. Term for a merchant ship operating in the British Empire often preceded by East or West 8 TRADER. British ships were familiar sites to ports and coastal regions the world over.

The book itself is a record of all British Merchant ships either built or acquired during World War Two. Many were later discarded with only those recording a birth or death on board normally being retained. On 1 July 1943 Empire MacAlpine was in collision with Empire Ibex in the north Atlantic 5330N 3625W and her bow was badly damaged.

On 6 Apr 1941 the westbound and unescorted ship suffered engine room damage from three bombs dropped by a German Fw200 Condor aircraft in position 5902N0709W about 45 miles northwest of Butt of Lewis. In the first 6 months of the Second World War some 1900 ships had been defensively equipped and by the end of 1940 3400 of the intended 5500. The data is focussed on tracking down crew lists but we provide other resources such as indexed images of the Mercantile Navy List as well as a comprehensive set of links to other sites.