Ship names or numbers and dates of voyages Register ticket (a merchant seaman's ID) Discharge number As well as providing information about your ancestor's career, it should be noted that the Merchant Navy Seamen records can also reveal what he or she looke...
Files of marines boarded every American ship in the harbor, tore down the colors, and flung two hundred and fifty seamen into the foul holds of a prison hulk. There they were kept, half-dead with thirst and hunger while their vessels, uncared for, had stranded or sunk at their moorings...
Sunk January 8-1943 by U-436 when on a voyage from Curaçao to Gibraltar with a cargo of 11 473 tons fuel oil in Convoy TM 1. Continue reading about the loss of this ship (includes crew list and a link to more information on this convoy, as well as a WW II Voyage Record). M...
Previous names: Runa, Reias, Flynarthen, Kildre. (Info from a visitor to my website; his source: "Shipwreck Index of the British Isles"). D/S Bjørnvik has more information on this ship, details on her final fate and a crew list. D/S Blaafjeld I NS * Harald Grieg Martens, ...
Previous names: Stonewall until 1923, Silverbirch until 1924, Ardenhall until 1936, Cefnybryn until 1936, Galeb until 1939. Vest was one of several Norwegian ships that experienced the explosions at Bari in Dec.-1943. D/S Vest has more information, as well as a crew list....