Stier is the only commerce raider to be sunk by Defensively Equipped Merchant Ships.

** James Frost, Merchant Princes, Halifax's First Family of Finance, Ships and Steel, 2003, James Lorimer and Company.

) Act 1993 and the consolidating Merchant Shipping Act 1995 which, in Section 4, Subsection 1, prohibits the use of any distinctive national colours or those used or resembling flags or pendants on Her Majesty's Ships, " except the Red Ensign, the Union flag ( commonly known as the Union Jack ) with a white border ", and some other exceptions permitted elsewhere in the Acts.

** VI-The Status of Enemy Merchant Ships at the Outbreak of Hostilities

** VII-The Conversion of Merchant Ships into War-Ships

Shortly after Professor Laughton published his " Jenkins's Ear " research in the English Historical Review, a Royal Navy colleague wrote, on 26 October 1889, to inform the historian: " I have a curious book connected with the subject, published in London in 1739, entitled England's Triumph: or a complete History of the many signals victories gained by the Royal Navy & Merchant Ships of Great Britain, for the term of 40 years past over the insulting & haught Spaniards by Captain Charles Jenkins, who has too severely felt the effects of Spanish tyranny.

* James Frost – Merchant Princes, Halifax's First Family of Finance, Ships and Steel

Merchant Princes, Halifax's First Family of Finance, Ships and Steel.

* VI: The Status of Enemy Merchant Ships at the Outbreak of Hostilities

* VII: The Conversion of Merchant Ships into War-Ships

* Defensively Equipped Merchant Ships

Many of the Defensively Equipped Merchant Ships were loaded with American Sherman tanks and their US Army crews that had been billeted in Penarth after training, housed in a vast village of Quonset or Nissen huts that had been built in ' Neale's Wood ', now the Northcliffe Estate next to the present-day Headlands Nursing Home.

Category: Ships by typeCategory: Sailing shipsCategory: Merchant ships

Category: Ships by typeCategory: Merchant ships

The United States Navy Armed Guard ( USNAG ) were U. S. Navy gun crews consisting of Gunner's Mates, Coxswains and Boatswains, Radiomen, Signalmen, an occasional Pharmacist's Mate, and toward the end of the war a few radarmen serving at sea on Merchant Ships.

* Defensively Equipped Merchant Ships

* Arming of Merchant Ships and Naval Armed Guard Service ( US Naval Administration in World War II, Vol.

; Chapter VIII – Nuclear ships: Nuclear powered ships are required, particularly concerning radiation hazards, to conform to the Code of Safety for Nuclear Merchant Ships.

While the majority of American merchant mariners are employed by shipping businesses and accordingly wear either uniforms prescribed by their employers or civilian attire, some officers receive commissions in the United States Maritime Service for federal government duty, such as the faculty of the United States Merchant Marine Academy and the Military Sealift Command's civilian officers manning non-commissioned United States Naval Ships.

CP Ships served in the Merchant Navy ( United Kingdom ) in WWI.

CP Ships served in the Canadian Merchant Navy in WWII.

The shipyards of Monfalcone ( Gorizia ), Marghera ( Venice ), Sestri Ponente ( Genoa ), Ancona, Castellammare di Stabia ( Naples ) and Palermo report to the Merchant Ships Business Unit while the shipyards of Riva Trigoso ( Genoa ) and Muggiano ( La Spezia ) report to the Naval Vessel Business Unit.

Vance wrote the stories while he served in the United States Merchant Marine during World War II.

During World War I many Shetlanders served in the Gordon Highlanders, a further 3, 000 served in the Merchant Navy and more than 1500 in a special local naval reserve.

Total World War I dead were 1, 115, 597 ( UK and former colonies 886, 939 ; Undivided India 74, 187 ; Canada 64, 976 ; Australia 61, 966 ; New Zealand 18, 052 ; South Africa 9, 477 These figures also include the Merchant Navy.

The figures include Royal Navy war dead of 32, 287 The Merchant Navy war dead of 14, 661 were listed separately Figures for total RAF are included in the totals of the War Office report

In naval history, an early 20th century British Merchant Navy freight ship SS Tantalus and a United States Navy landing craft repair ship of the World War II ( USS Tantalus ( ARL-27 )) were named after Tantalus.

* Merchant aircraft carrier, used during World War II by Britain and the Netherlands

Black Pete: United States Merchant Marine | USMM World War II Mascot

During World War II, Pete was " drafted " by Walt Disney and appeared as the official mascot of the United States Merchant Marine.

" In December 1941, the property was sold to the U. S. government's War Shipping Department and became known as Wiley Hall as part of the United States Merchant Marine Academy.

During World War I he served in the Merchant Marine, after which he found employment singing as prologue to silent movies at the Grauman " Million Dollar " Theater in downtown Los Angeles.

He was the son of Count Costanzo Ciano and his wife Carolina Pini ; his father was an Admiral and World War I hero in the Royal Italian Navy, founding member of the National Fascist Party and re-organizer of the Italian Merchant Marine in the 1920s.

* Marauders of the Sea, German Armed Merchant Raiders During World War 2

* Marauders of the Sea, German Armed Merchant Raiders During World War 1, Wolf

* Marauders of the Sea, German Armed Merchant Raiders During World War 1, Möwe

After working at several jobs he disliked, at sixteen Garner joined the United States Merchant Marine near the end of World War II.

During World War II, Morecambe was a Bevin Boy, working down a coal mine at Accrington and Wise served in the Merchant Navy, from the end of 1943.

Category: British Merchant Navy personnel of World War II

During World War II, he attacked the National Maritime Union, the labor organization for the civilian United States Merchant Marine, which he said was run by Communists.

During World War II he was rejected by the United States Navy and enrolled in the United States Merchant Marine Academy for a short time.

Category: British Merchant Navy personnel of World War II

Hackworth joined the U. S. Merchant Marine at age 14, towards the end of World War II, when teenagers routinely entered the armed services before their 18th birthday by lying about their age.

Among the earliest Companies known to have had halls are the Merchant Taylors and Goldsmiths in the 14th century, but neither theirs nor other Companies ' original halls remain ; whatever few survived the Great Fire of London were brought down by the Blitz of the Second World War.

King George V bestowed the title of " Merchant Navy " on the British merchant shipping fleets following their service in the First World War ; a number of other nations have since adopted the title.