What danger did they fear from us? Time might tell if we let them down. Armed Merchant Cruisers Armed merchant cruisers had mixed fortunes in WW1 and this continued in WW2 where they suffered ...

many British merchant vessels were pressed into service as Armed Merchant Cruisers (AMCs). These boats, typically equipped with sufficient firepower to place them on par with a light cruiser ...

The Patroclus originally was a part of the Blue Funnel Line's Fleet and was converted to an armed merchant cruiser. Patroclus was torpedoed and sunk on November 3rd 1940. While rescuing seamen ...

He said the discovery of HMS Stephen Furness was “significant” and could help identify hundreds more shipwrecks, including ...

my ship was sailing from Capetown escorting a large convoy bound for England with a destroyer escort and an armed merchant Cruiser My ship H.M.S Dorsetshire a county class cruiser carrying eight 8 ...

Fortunately, there’s a way: an optionally armed Merchant Navy. Australia once had a Merchant Navy, and the 2023 Strategic Fleet Report proposes (without using the term Merchant Navy) just such a body ...

Armed merchant cruisers had mixed fortunes in WW1 and this continued in WW2 where they suffered losses with some Dundee men in them. At one time they were taken in to port and spaces unoccupied by ...