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During the war 3.1 million tons of US merchant ships were sunk in 733 ships. Merchant ships were lost due to submarines, destroyers, naval mines, armed raiders, gun boats, aircraft attacks, kamikaze attacks, grounding and ocean storms. Convoy system with destroyers, escort carriers, submarine chasers, planes and other support, reduced losses by ...
The ship was the first British merchant vessel sunk by U-boats The first attacks on merchant ships had started in October 1914. On 20 October Glitra became the first British merchant vessel to be sunk by a German submarine in World War I. Glitra , bound from Grangemouth to Stavanger , Norway, was stopped and searched by U-17 , under the command ...
On 18 June, the United Kingdom Maritime Trade Operations (UKMTO) reported that the ship likely sank overnight off the coast of Eritrea, at the coordinates of 14"19'N 041"14'E, [21] after receiving reports of oil and debris in the ship's last position. [22] [23] On the morning of the following day, the UKMTO confirmed her sinking. [24]
As of May 2024, there are 66 commissioned ships in the Royal Navy. Of the commissioned vessels, nineteen are major surface combatants (two aircraft carriers , six guided missile destroyers , nine frigates and two amphibious transport docks ) and ten are nuclear-powered submarines (four ballistic missile submarines and six fleet submarines ).
MV Joyita was a 69-foot (21.0 m) wooden ship built in 1931 as a luxury yacht by the Wilmington Boat Works in Los Angeles for movie director Roland West, who named the ship for his wife, actress Jewel Carmen — joyita in Spanish meaning "little jewel". [1] In 1936 the ship was sold and registered to Milton E. Beacon. [2]
Empire Baffin was a 6,978 ton cargo ship which was built by Lithgows Ltd, Port Glasgow in 1941 for the Ministry of War Transport (MoWT). She was commissioned in 1943 as HMS Sancroft, being converted into a cable laying ship for Operation Pluto. She was returned to the MoWT in 1946 and subsequently sold and renamed Clintonia.
Clippers, outrunning the British blockade of Baltimore, came to be recognized as ships built for speed rather than cargo space; while traditional merchant ships were accustomed to average speeds of under 5 knots (9 km/h), clippers aimed at 9 knots (17 km/h) or better. Sometimes these ships could reach 20 knots (37 km/h).
Gairsoppa was a War Standard "B" type steamship: one of a set of designs ordered by the UK Shipping Controller in large numbers to replace merchant ships lost during the First World War. She was launched as War Roebuck, but renamed before she was completed. The British India Steam Navigation Company (BI) owned and managed her throughout her career.