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British merchant ships are registered under the UK or Red Ensign group ship registries. British Merchant Navy deck officers and ratings are certificated and trained according to STCW Convention and the syllabus of the Merchant Navy Training Board in maritime colleges and other training institutes around the UK.
Merchant ships of the United Kingdom include merchant ships built, ... British Tar (1797 ship) SS Brittany (1910) Broderick (1786 ship) Broxbornebury (1812 ship)
British slave ships (3 C) Pages in category "Age of Sail merchant ships of England" The following 200 pages are in this category, out of approximately 1,399 total.
The Maritime history of the United Kingdom involves events including shipping, ports, navigation, and seamen, as well as marine sciences, exploration, trade, and maritime themes in the arts from the creation of the kingdom of Great Britain [1] as a united, sovereign state, on 1 May 1707 in accordance with the Treaty of Union, signed on 22 July 1706. [2]
Merchant seamen are civilians who elect to work at sea. Their working practices in 1939 had changed little in hundreds of years. They "signed on" to sail aboard a ship for a voyage or succession of voyages and after being "paid off" at the end of that time were free to either sign on for a further engagement if they were required, or to take unpaid "leave" before "signing on" aboard another ...
The destruction of the British ship Kemmendine by the German raider Atlantis, July 1940. [1] The Kemmendine (1924) was a British merchant ship. She was sunk by the German merchant raider Atlantis in the Indian Ocean on 13 July 1940, en route from Glasgow to Burma. [2] [3] Records relating to the ship are held by the British National Archives. [4]
The British Merchant Navy comprises the British merchant ships that transport cargo and people during times of peace and war. For much of its history, the merchant navy was the largest merchant fleet in the world, but with the decline of the British Empire in the mid-20th century it slipped down the rankings.
Defensively equipped merchant ship (DEMS) was an Admiralty Trade Division programme established in June 1939, to arm 5,500 British merchant ships with an adequate defence against enemy submarines and aircraft.