• SS Empire Shelter was a convoy rescue ship built for the Royal Navy during World War II, originally laid down as the Castle-class corvette HMS Barnard...
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    SS Empire Peacemaker was a British convoy rescue ship that served at the end of World War II, originally laid down as the corvette HMS Scarborough Castle...
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    later raised and scrapped on 22 June 1955. SS Empire Comfort SS Empire Peacemaker. SS Empire Rest SS Empire Shelter Lenton, p. 297 Chesneau, p. 63; Lenton...
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    & Storry 2002, pp. 11–14 Cavendish, Richard (June 1998). "Arrival of SS Empire Windrush". History Today. Vol. 48, no. 6. Retrieved 11 March 2023. "Pathe...
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  • A. V. Roe & Company Ltd. Captain James Wood Wotherspoon, Master, SS Empire Shelter, City Line Ltd. Herbert Arthur James Wrigglesworth, Stores Manager...
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  • Officer, Board of Trade. Captain Albert Frederick Martin, Master, SS Empire Shelter, Ellerman Lines Ltd. Alfred John Gordon Martin, Assistant Secretary...
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  • SS Empire Clansman was a 2,065 ton collier which was built in 1942 for the Ministry of War Transport (MoWT). She saw service mainly in British coastal...
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    The 14th Waffen Grenadier Division of the SS (1st Galician) (German: 14. Waffen-Grenadier-Division der SS (galizische Nr. 1); Ukrainian: 14-та гренадерська...
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  • SS Empire Bunting was a 6,318 GRT cargo ship which was built in 1919. She saw service between the wars under the US flag and was transferred to the UK...
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    wagon was later destroyed near the end of World War II, most likely by the SS. The Compiègne Wagon was built in May 1914 in Saint-Denis as dining car No...
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    SS America was an ocean liner and cruise ship built in the United States in 1940 for the United States Lines and designed by the noted American naval architect...
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    Worldpress Blog. 26 March 2011. Retrieved 6 September 2017. Shipwrecks - SS Milwaukee "Shipwrecks". Retrieved 4 April 2011. "Chequamegon". Historical...
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    names beginning with "Empire", such as SS Empire Spearhead. Empire Broadsword was lost at the Normandy Invasion, to a mine. Empire Javelin was sunk by a...
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    Empire Bittern was a steamship, built as a livestock-carrying cargo ship in 1902 at Belfast, Ireland as Iowa for the White Diamond Steamship Company Ltd...
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  • Empire Conveyor was a 5,911 GRT shelter deck cargo ship that was built in 1917 as Farnworth by Richardson, Duck and Company, Thornaby-on-Tees, England...
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    Titanic (redirect from SS Titanic)
    shore to ship. The White Star Line operated two tenders at Cherbourg: SS Traffic and SS Nomadic (Nomadic is the only surviving White Star Line ship). Both...
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    Waffen-SS, in units of the SS Division Wiking. Most of these volunteers served as motorized infantry in the Finnish Volunteer Battalion of the Waffen-SS (German:...
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    900-tons merchant ships: SS Pakeha, fleet tender A, as battleship HMS Revenge SS Waimana, fleet tender B, as battleship HMS Resolution SS Mamari, fleet tender...
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    dock conversions: SS Joe C. S. Blackburn in 1968 and S Jane Addams in 1947. Allied technological cooperation during World War II Empire ships Hog Islander...
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  • Rimini Sardi, Italy and renamed Tirso. New diesel engine fitted in 1978. Empire Shelter was a 1,333 GRT convoy rescue ship which was built by G Brown & Co (Marine)...
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    Reinhard Heydrich (category SS-Obergruppenführer)
    ˈhaɪdʁɪç, - ˈʔɔʏɡn̩ -] ; 7 March 1904 – 4 June 1942) was a high-ranking German SS and police official during the Nazi era and a principal architect of the Holocaust...
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    Chandragupta Maurya overthrew the Nanda Empire and established the first great empire in ancient India, the Maurya Empire. India's Mauryan king Ashoka is widely...
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    Argentina. The cat shelter was founded in 1993 and offers sterilization and adoption programs that house an estimated 350 cats. The shelter operates as a no-kill...
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    Wernher von Braun (category SS-Sturmbannführer)
    engineer and space architect. He was a member of the Nazi Party and Allgemeine SS, the leading figure in the development of rocket technology in Nazi Germany...
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    Lutz Heck (category Förderndes Mitglied der SS)
    Georg Heinrich Heck, called Lutz Heck (23 April 1892 in Berlin, German Empire – 6 April 1983 in Wiesbaden, West Germany) was a German zoologist, animal...
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  • Werner Haase (category SS-Obersturmbannführer)
    Haase (2 August 1900 – 30 November 1950) was a professor of medicine and SS member during the Nazi era. He was one of Adolf Hitler's personal physicians...
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  • Günther Schwägermann (category SS-Hauptsturmführer)
    secondary school and later joined the 1st SS Division Leibstandarte SS Adolf Hitler on 8 April 1937. He was sent to the SS-Junkerschule Bad Tölz for officers'...
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  • in the Eastern Mediterranean. Empire Comfort, Empire Lifeguard, Empire Peacemaker, Empire Rest and Empire Shelter Empire ships were generally involved...
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    manager in Skierniewice. During this time he was employing and giving shelter to Polish underground members, hunted by the Gestapo. In February 1945...
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  • air-raid shelter LVL – Landwirtschaftliche Vertrauensleute, agrarian agents for the NSDAP LSSAH – Leibstandarte SS Adolf Hitler, or Adolf Hitler SS Bodyguard...
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