1 Oct 1939 Rawalpindi was commissioned into British Royal Navy service. 23 Nov 1939 Rawalpindi stumbled upon German battlecruisers Scharnhorst and Gneisenau. When asked to abandon ship, Captain Edward Kennedy turned toward the German ships in an attempt to get into range of her 6-inch guns....
ww2dbaseThe last Liberty Ship built was SS Albert M. Boe, which was launched on 26 Sep 1945 and delivered on 30 Oct 1945. During the design's production life, 2,751 vessels were built; about 200 of them were lost during the war to various reasons. Many Liberty Ships remained in use ...
Engineering personnel for merchant navy 来自 ResearchGate 喜欢 0 阅读量: 6 作者: S Datta 摘要: Highly competent personnel, particularly at management level, are required for operating around forty thousand merchant ships all over the world. Emoluments being attractive, persons from developing countries...
In Admiralty service from 1940 (Royal Fleet Auxiliary, an auxiliary branch of the Royal Navy responsible for, among other things, supplying the fleet with stores and fuel oil. Its vessels were under the control of the Royal Navy but the crews were merchant navy personnel. The vessels were not...
a friendly vessel. Lieutenant Willet was posthumously awarded the Navy Cross and later a destroyer was named in his honor. Captain Buck and Cadet O’Hara were posthumously awarded the Merchant Marine Distinguished Service Medal. Other Liberty Ships were named after Buck, O’Hara, and Moczkowski....
Caption Submarine USS Tinosa’s battle flag showing 22 Japanese merchant ships sunk, 12 damaged, two islands shelled, and the graphic of the fighting submarine from the ship’s patch. Photographer Unknown Source United States Navy via NavSource More on... Tinosa Main article Photos Photo Size ...
ww2dbaseAdmiral Forbes, the Royal Navy Commander-in-Chief, having been notified of Rawalpindi's two sighting reports of the "Deutschland", ordered the Home Fleet to sail at once from Scapa Flow to intercept, but in the meantime, HMS Newcastle, the next ship to the Rawalpindi on the patr...