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Liverpool Naval Memorial Merchant Navy Memorial, with the memorial plinth and plaques behind, and the lantern of the Liverpool Naval Memorial beyond. The Liverpool Naval Memorial, also known as the Memorial to the Missing of the Naval Auxiliary Personnel of the Second World War or the Merchant Navy War Memorial, is a war memorial at Pier Head beside the River Mersey in Liverpool, near to the ...
HMS Conway was a naval training school or "school ship", founded in 1859 and housed for most of her life aboard a 19th-century wooden ship of the line.The ship was originally stationed on the Mersey near Liverpool, then moved to the Menai Strait during World War II.
It was the London maritime interests' answer to HMS Conway, which had been established in 1859 on the River Mersey as a training ship for Liverpool's burgeoning merchant fleet. Throughout their history, Worcester and Conway were competitors, and the two met regularly on playing fields and in boats in keen sporting rivalry.
In 1945 the TS Indefatigable merged with the Lancashire National Sea Training Home for boys and renamed The Indefatigable and National Sea Training School for boys. Although this was the official name the school was always known as the Indefatigable. Boys entered at aged fourteen, graduating at age sixteen to either the Merchant or Royal Navy.
Capt. S S S Rewari Foundation School of Maritime Studies: Anglo Eastern Maritime Training Centre: Conducts post sea STCW courses and is a pioneer in Continuous Professional development courses Panapakkam: Southern Academy of Maritime Studies: Pondicherry: Pondicherry Maritime Academy: Pune: Maharashtra Academy of Naval Education and Training [42]
Arthur John Pilditch, Chief Officer, Merchant Navy. Susannah Ethel Pinney, Warden of the Josephine Butler Memorial House, Liverpool. Edward Richard Ventris Porter, Divisional Organiser of the Amalgamated Engineering Union. Harry Royston Portman, Senior Staff Officer, Ministry of Information. Captain James Hunter Potts, Master, Merchant Navy.
HX 1 sailed on 16 September 1939 with 18 merchant ships, escorted by the Royal Canadian Navy destroyers HMCS St. Laurent and Saguenay to a North Atlantic rendezvous with Royal Navy heavy cruisers HMS Berwick and York. [3] HX 358 sailed on 23 May 1945 and arrived at Liverpool on 6 June 1945. [4]
Built in 1771, it was the third dock built in Liverpool, and was too small and too shallow in depth for the commercial ships of the late 19th century. [5] Most of the site was owned by the Mersey Docks and Harbour Board, set up by Parliament in 1857; a small part of the site still was still held by the Corporation of the City of Liverpool. [5]