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As Scotland and England moved closer during the seventeenth century, following the Union of the Crowns, the need for a navy to protect Scotland from the English Royal Navy lessened and by the time of the Union with England in 1707, the Royal Scottish Navy possessed just three ships: The Royal William, The Royal Mary, and Dumbarton Castle.
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Derrycunihy was a general-purpose cargo ship of 10,200 tons built (yard number 275) by Burntisland Shipbuilding Company for McGowan & Gross of London. Because of critical shipping requirements during the Second World War she had been built at great speed: her keel was laid on 22 June 1943, she was launched on 11 November the same year, and was delivered on 26 February 1944.
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 ...
She resisted the merchant raider for more than an hour before her Master, Captain Collie, gave the order to abandon ship. Thor ' s bombardment had damaged some of Britannia ' s lifeboats. Sources disagree as to whether Thor ' s Captain, Otto Kähler , ordered a pause in the bombardment to allow Britannia to lower her boats and get everyone away ...
Jane's Fighting Ships of World War II (1972); covers major navies of the world; Levy, James P. "Race for the Decisive Weapon: British, American, and Japanese Carrier Fleets, 1942–1943." Naval War College Review (Winter 2005) v 58; Newpower, Anthony. Iron Men and Tin Fish: The Race to Build a Better Torpedo During World War II (Greenwood, 2006)
A Scottish armed merchantman engaged in the Baltic trade is attacked by a Hanseatic ship. Detail from a 16th-century map. unnamed man-of-war c1329 [1] [self-published source?] King's Carvel (Yellow Carvel) 1475 [1] Flower 1470s [1] Christopher 1490s - man-of-war [1] Lion early 16th century [1] converted merchant vessel owned by Robert Barton of ...