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Author: Phillip Reid
Publisher: BRILL
Published: 2020-04-14
Total Pages: 322
ISBN-13: 9004426345
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →In The Merchant Ship in the British Atlantic, 1600—1800, Phillip Reid shows how ordinary commercial vessels reflected the risk management strategies of those who designed, built, bought, and sailed them.
Author: Catherine Betty Abigail Behrens
Publisher:
Published: 1955
Total Pages: 584
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Tells what was required of the British ships in various phases of the war, how they met them and the costs involved.
Author: Richard Woodman
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Published: 2013-04-10
Total Pages: 98
ISBN-13: 0747813485
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →At one time British ships carried half of the world's trade, transporting every conceivable type of freight from and to all four corners of the globe – and in times of crisis the merchant fleet has also offered military assistance. In fact, the merchant convoys and armed cruisers that defied the German blockades to supply Britain in the First World War were so pivotal that they were recognised as a second 'navy' – the Merchant Navy. This fleet again saw service in the Second World War, continuing to keep Britain provisioned even in its darkest hour. Richard Woodman here relates the Merchant Navy's colourful history and brings to life the day-to-day experiences of the seamen.
Author: C. T. Watts
Publisher:
Published: 1990-01-01
Total Pages:
ISBN-13: 9780785548546
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: Bernard Edwards
Publisher: Grub Street Publishers
Published: 2017-11-30
Total Pages: 283
ISBN-13: 1526711680
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →The naval historian and retired merchant navy captain recounts the contributions of Britain’s civilian ships during WWII in this “cracking read” (The Bridgend & Porthcawl Gem). The first British casualties of the Second World War were not members of the Royal Navy, the army, or the Royal Air Force. They were British merchant seamen on the transatlantic passenger liner SS Athenia, torpedoed by a German U-30 submarine on September 3, 1939. For the duration of the war, Britain’s merchant fleet performed a vital role, carrying the essential supplies that kept the country running during the darkest days and made victory possible. Their achievements came at a terrible cost with 2,535 British oceangoing merchant ships being sunk and, of the 185,000 men and women serving in the British Merchant Navy at the time, 36,749 sacrificed their lives. Another 4,707 were wounded and 5,720 ended up as prisoners of war. Their casualty rate of twenty-five percent was second only to RAF Bomber Command’s. Thoroughly researched and full of fascinating true accounts, Bernard Edwards’s Churchill’s Thin Grey Line tells the inspiring story of those brave civilian volunteers who fought so gallantly to defend their ships, cargo, and country. “A cracking read which brings home to the reader how much we in [England] owe to the Merchant Navy . . . Bernard Edwards has done them proud.” —The Bridgend & Porthcawl Gem
Author: Edward Blackmore
Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand
Published: 2012-08
Total Pages: 270
ISBN-13: 3954272105
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Edward Blackmore - Master Mariner and associate of the institution of Naval Architects in 19th century England - dedicates himself to one of the most interesting and important sections of British maritime history: the Mercantile Marine. Founded upon a series of papers written for the Shipmasters' Society of London, the book describes in detail the rise and progress of British shipping and commerce, the education of the Merchant Officer, and duty and discipline in the Merchant service."This littele book does not, of course, pretend to be in any way exhaustive of the history of the British Mercantile Marine; nevertheless, it is hoped that it will afford a sufficient outline of its past and present to be both interesting and instructive to those who care to know anything of the rise and progress of our Merchant Navy."Reprint of the original edition from 1897.
