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A merchant seaman from Aden in 1943. Note MN lapel badge. The majority of seamen manning ships of the British Merchant Navy were British. However, in a 1938 survey, it was found that 27 per cent were either from India or China and another 5 per cent were British domiciled Arabs, Indians, Chinese, West Africans or West Indians mainly resident in major UK ports such as Cardiff, Liverpool or ...
Dutch East Indies campaign. Japanese forces land on Java. The Dutch East Indies campaign of 1941–1942 was the conquest of the Dutch East Indies (present-day Indonesia) by forces of the Empire of Japan in the early days of the Pacific campaign of World War II. Allied forces attempted unsuccessfully to defend the islands.
129.9 m (426 ft 2 in) pp. Beam. 18.2 m (59 ft 9 in) Arisan Maru was a 6,886 GRT Type 2A freighter constructed in 1944 during World War II and was one of Imperial Japan 's hell ships. The vessel, named for a mountain on Taiwan, was initially used as a troop transport. The vessel was then turned over for use for the transportation of prisoners of ...
HMS Danae. HMS Diadem. ORP Dragon (Polish, damaged in July and then used as a blockship in "Gooseberry" breakwater) HMS Emerald. HMS Enterprise. Georges Leygues ( Free French) HMS Glasgow. HMS Mauritius (Flagship of Rear Admiral Patterson) Montcalm ( Free French, Flagship of Rear Admiral Jaujard)
The list includes armed vessels that served during the war and in the immediate aftermath, inclusive of localized ongoing combat operations, garrison surrenders, post-surrender occupation, colony re-occupation, troop and prisoner repatriation, to the end of 1945. For smaller vessels, see also list of World War II ships of less than 1000 tons.
The Arctic convoys of World War II were oceangoing convoys which sailed from the United Kingdom, Iceland, and North America to northern ports in the Soviet Union – primarily Arkhangelsk (Archangel) and Murmansk in Russia. There were 78 convoys between August 1941 and May 1945, [1] sailing via several seas of the Atlantic and Arctic oceans ...
Arctic convoys of World War II. Caribbean convoys of World War II. Mediterranean convoys of World War II. North American Coastal convoys of World War II. North Atlantic convoys of World War II. Pacific convoys of World War II. South Atlantic convoys of World War II. Battle of the Atlantic. Lists by region.
The List of ships of the Second World War contains major military vessels of the war, arranged alphabetically and by type. The list includes armed vessels that served during the war and in the immediate aftermath, inclusive of localized ongoing combat operations, garrison surrenders, post-surrender occupation, colony re-occupation, troop and prisoner repatriation, to the end of 1945.