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World War II merchant ships of the United States (1 C, 295 P) W. World War II merchant ships of Yugoslavia (2 P) This page was last edited on 14 February 2024, at 12: ...
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 ...
Pages in category "World War II merchant ships of the United Kingdom" The following 200 pages are in this category, out of approximately 223 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. (previous page) *
A Victory ship of World War II Liberty ship of World War II. The Emergency Shipbuilding Program built many types of ships to support the war. The most numerous ships were the 2,710 cargo Liberty ships. [25] Liberty ships were built between 1941 and 1945, with a new module assembly process so that about three ships were built every two days. [26]
HMS Jervis Bay – On 5 November the armed merchant cruiser was the sole escort for 37 merchant ships in Convoy HX 84 from Halifax, Nova Scotia to the UK. When the convoy encountered the German heavy cruiser Admiral Scheer, Jervis Bay ordered the merchant ships to scatter while she headed straight for the German ship to draw her fire.
They used the ship to carry German emigrants to South America, and as a cruise ship. During World War II, she was taken over by the German navy and used as a troopship. During the war, she survived two Allied attempts to sink her. After World War 2, the United Kingdom seized the ship as a prize of war and renamed her HMT Empire Windrush. She ...
Liberty ships (14 C, 583 P) Pages in category "World War II merchant ships of the United States" The following 200 pages are in this category, out of approximately 295 total.
Rosie the Riveter (Westinghouse poster, 1942). The image became iconic in the 1980s. American women in World War II became involved in many tasks they rarely had before; as the war involved global conflict on an unprecedented scale, the absolute urgency of mobilizing the entire population made the expansion of the role of women inevitable.