Defensively equipped merchant ship (DEMS) was an Admiralty Trade Division programme established in June 1939, to arm 5,500 British merchant ships with...
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sailing ships engaged in trade while carrying guns similar to contemporary warships. Defensively Equipped Merchant Ships were civilian-crewed cargo ships carrying...
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and Exeter Medical Society Deepika English Medium School Defensively equipped merchant ship Dheeraj Education Management System Differential Electrochemical...
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in 1939 for use as coastal artillery and as a defensive weapon on Defensively Equipped Merchant Ships (DEMS) during the Second World War. The guns armed...
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Armed merchantman (redirect from Armed Merchant Cruiser)
An armed merchantman is a merchant ship equipped with guns, usually for defensive purposes, either by design or after the fact. In the days of sail, piracy...
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the Japanese merchant fleet to less than a quarter its initial tonnage. Cruiser rules Submarine warfare Defensively equipped merchant ship Commerce raiding...
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An Empire ship is a merchant ship that was given a name beginning with "Empire" in the service of the Government of the United Kingdom during and after...
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MV Britannic (1929) (category 1929 ships)
cwt high-angle gun for anti-aircraft defence to make her a defensively equipped merchant ship. Britannic loaded cargo, returned to England and then returned...
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II. Large submarines remained vulnerable to damage from defensively equipped merchant ships (DEMS), were slow to dive if found by aircraft, offered a...
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(such as the gunners manning defensively equipped merchant ships), or those listed on other memorials to missing merchant seafarers (such as the memorials...
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gunners called defensively equipped merchant ship or DEMS gunners. Merchant seamen crewed the merchant ships of the British Merchant Navy which kept...
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Clemson-class destroyer (category World War II auxiliary ships of the United States)
guns (Mark 9) were transferred to Defensively Equipped Merchant Ships for anti-submarine protection. For the ships converted to minesweepers, the twelve...
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Warship (redirect from Combatant ship)
landing crafts. Armed merchantman is a type of merchant ship equipped with naval guns, usually for defensive purposes, either by design or after the fact...
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covering demobilisation accounts from December 1918 onwards. The Defensively Equipped Merchant Ship accounts were transferred to HMS Vivid on 1 October 1919....
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Kenneth Martin Willett Defensively equipped merchant ship SS Stephen Hopkins Convoy PQ 17 Deck gun Liberty ship Victory ship World War II U.S. Navy Armed...
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It was installed on major warships, armed trawlers and defensively equipped merchant ships. It was often used in twin mountings and a quadruple mount...
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ships were armed. There were merchant seamen gunners. Also many British and Canadian merchantmen carried volunteer naval gunners called Defensively equipped...
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until 1944. In the spring of 1944 Harvey was assigned to a defensively equipped merchant ship; this was again a suggestion of Alf, as it meant a less rigorous...
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warfare." Hell ship Imperial Japanese Army shipping artillery – Gun crews for Japanese troop transports and defensively equipped merchant ships Japanese submarines...
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Artillery Maritime Regiment. These vessels were known as DEMS (defensively equipped merchant ships). Gunners varied in number with the armament and could be...
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RFA Abbeydale (category 1936 ships)
Navy warships. In October she was refitted at Gibraltar as a defensively equipped merchant ship and in November was assigned to support Operation Torch, the...
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submerged. Amphibious assault submarine Submarine Cargo Vessel Defensively Equipped Merchant Ships German Submarine Deutschland's Atlantic Crossing (information...
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began his naval gunnery training on board City of Florence, a defensively equipped merchant ship (DEMS) which delivered ammunition to the city of Alexandria...
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Nuclear marine propulsion (redirect from Nuclear powered merchant ships)
2021[update], it is the only nuclear-powered merchant ship in service.[citation needed] Civilian nuclear ships suffer from the costs of specialized infrastructure...
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the ships that were armed were operated by Defensively Equipped Merchant Ship personnel provided by the RAN and members of the ship's crew. Merchant seaman...
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ships new names. Park ships were armed. There were merchant seamen gunners. Also many British and Canadian merchantmen naval gunners as Defensively equipped...
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four ships of Convoy MW 10 sailing from Alexandria at 7:10 a.m. on 20 March, each with a navy liaison party and Defensively equipped merchant ship (DEMS)...
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squads from April 1944 which were assigned to individual ships. Defensively equipped merchant ship Imperial Japanese Army Railways and Shipping Section Citations...
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Holman Projector (category British Merchant Navy)
at enemy aircraft. Intended primarily as a stop-gap defensive weapon for British merchant ships, which had been suffering heavy losses from Luftwaffe...
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Guard cutters and Defensively Equipped Merchant Ships. Low-angle 3"/50-caliber guns (Marks 3, 5, 6, and 19) were originally mounted on ships built from the...
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