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List Of Empire Ships (A)
''Empire Abbey'' '' Empire Abbey'' was a 7,032 GRT refrigerated cargo ship built in 1943 by Shipbuilding Corporation Ltd, Newcastle upon Tyne and managed by Elder & Fyffes Ltd. Sold to Royal Mail Lines and renamed ''Teviot'' in 1946. Sold to Mullion & Co., Hong Kong in 1960 and renamed ''Ardellis''. Sold to Hai An Shipping Co., Hong Kong and renamed ''Tung An'' in 1963. Scrapped in Taiwan in 1967. ''Empire Abercorn'' '' Empire Abercorn'' was an 8,563 GRT refrigerated cargo ship built in 1945 by Harland & Wolff, Belfast and managed by the New Zealand Shipping Company of London. Sold to New Zealand Shipping Co. in 1946 and renamed ''Rakaia''. Sold to Federal Steam Navigation Co. in 1966. Scrapped in Hong Kong in 1971. ''Empire Ability'' '' Empire Ability'' was a 7,603 GRT cargo ship built in 1931 by Deutsche Schiff- und Maschinenbau AG, Bremen. Originally owned by Hansa Line, Bremen and named ''Uhenfels''. Captured by HMS ''Hereward'' off Freetown 5 November 1940. Rename ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Empire Abbey
SS ''Empire Abbey'' was a reefer (ship), refrigerated cargo ship built in 1943 and in service until 1966. She was also known as SS ''Teviot'', SS ''Ardilles'' and SS ''Tung An''. History War service ''Empire Abbey'' was built by Shipbuilding Corporation Ltd, Newcastle upon Tyne for the MoWT and launched on 10 December 1943 and completed in March 1944. She was placed under the management of Fyffes Line, Elders & Fyffes Ltd. On 26 April 1944, ''Empire Abbey'' sailed from New York City, New York as part of Convoy HX289, arriving in Liverpool on 13 May. On 23 November 1944, ''Empire Abbey'' sailed from Milford Haven as part of Convoy OS96 bound for Gibraltar, ''Empire Abbey'' was in ballast, with a final destination of Buenos Aires. On 15 February 1945, ''Empire Abbey'' was in a collision with Free French Naval Forces, Free French Ship Free French Ship L'Ardent, ''L'Ardent'' in Cora, Morocco, Cora Harbour which resulted in ''L'Ardent'' being sunk. Postwar In February 1946, ''Empir ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hansa Line
DDG Hansa, short for Deutsche Dampfschiffahrts-Gesellschaft Hansa (German Steamship Company Hansa; in modern orthography, Deutsche Dampfschifffahrts-Gesellschaft Hansa) was a major German shipping company specialising in heavy freight and scheduled traffic between Europe and the Far East. Founded in Bremen in 1881, the company declared bankruptcy in 1980. History Foundation and early years DDG Hansa was founded on 3 December 1881 at the "constituent general assembly" in Bremen by a consortium of 17 Bremen and 2 Bremerhaven companies,"The DDG Hansa, 1881–1980—a missed centenary", in ''100 Years Ahlers in Antwerp: A family business in a world port'', ed. Christian Leysen and Olivier Boehme, Brussels: ASP/University Press Antwerp, , pp. 24–28p. 24 to provide steamship connections for trade with Asia, the Baltic, and the Mediterranean. The first voyage was by SS ''Stolzenfels'' from Newcastle to Singapore in February 1882.Raymond Fisch, "The Roots of Heavy Lift Shipping", ''Anch ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Swan Hunter
Swan Hunter, formerly known as Swan Hunter & Wigham Richardson, is a shipbuilding design, engineering, and management company, based in Wallsend, Tyne and Wear, England. At its apex, the company represented the combined forces of three powerful shipbuilding families: Swan, Hunter and Wigham Richardson. The company was responsible for some of the greatest ships of the early 20th century, most famously which held the Blue Riband for the fastest crossing of the Atlantic, and which rescued survivors from . In 2006 ''Swan Hunter'' ceased vessel construction on Tyneside, but continues to provide design engineering services. History Swan & Hunter was founded by George Burton Hunter, who formed a partnership with the widow of Charles Sheridan Swan (the owner of a Wallsend Shipbuilding business established in 1852 by Charles Mitchell) under the name in 1880. In 1903, C.S. Swan & Hunter merged with Wigham Richardson (founded by John Wigham Richardson as Neptune Works in 1860), sp ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Campbeltown
Campbeltown (; gd, Ceann Loch Chille Chiarain or ) is a town and former royal burgh in Argyll and Bute, Scotland. It lies by Campbeltown Loch on the Kintyre peninsula. Campbeltown became an important centre for Scotch whisky, and a busy fishing port. The 2018 population estimate was 4,600 indicating a reduction since the 2011 census. History Originally known as Kinlochkilkerran (an anglicization of the Gaelic, which means 'head of the loch by the kirk of Ciarán'), Campbeltown was renamed in the 17th century as ''Campbell's Town'' after Archibald Campbell ( Earl of Argyle) was granted the site in 1667. Campbeltown Town Hall was completed in 1760. Whisky Campbeltown is one of five areas in Scotland categorised as a distinct malt whisky producing region, and is home to the Campbeltown single malts. At one point it had over 30 distilleries and proclaimed itself "the whisky capital of the world". However, a focus on quantity rather than quality, and the combination of Prohibiti ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ministry Of Defence (United Kingdom)
The Ministry of Defence (MOD or MoD) is the department responsible for implementing the defence policy set by His Majesty's Government, and is the headquarters of the British Armed Forces. The MOD states that its principal objectives are to defend the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland and its interests and to strengthen international peace and stability. The MOD also manages day-to-day running of the armed forces, contingency planning and defence procurement. The expenditure, administration and policy of the MOD are scrutinised by the Defence Select Committee, except for Defence Intelligence which instead falls under the Intelligence and Security Committee of Parliament. History During the 1920s and 1930s, British civil servants and politicians, looking back at the performance of the state during the First World War, concluded that there was a need for greater co-ordination between the three services that made up the armed forces of the United Kingdom: t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
United States Navy
The United States Navy (USN) is the maritime service branch of the United States Armed Forces and one of the eight uniformed services of the United States. It is the largest and most powerful navy in the world, with the estimated tonnage of its active battle fleet alone exceeding the next 13 navies combined, including 11 allies or partner nations of the United States as of 2015. It has the highest combined battle fleet tonnage (4,635,628 tonnes as of 2019) and the world's largest aircraft carrier fleet, with eleven in service, two new carriers under construction, and five other carriers planned. With 336,978 personnel on active duty and 101,583 in the Ready Reserve, the United States Navy is the third largest of the United States military service branches in terms of personnel. It has 290 deployable combat vessels and more than 2,623 operational aircraft . The United States Navy traces its origins to the Continental Navy, which was established during the American Revo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Secretary Of State For Defence
The secretary of state for defence, also referred to as the defence secretary, is a secretary of state in the Government of the United Kingdom, with overall responsibility for the business of the Ministry of Defence. The incumbent is a member of the Cabinet of the United Kingdom. The post of Secretary of State for Defence was created on 1 April 1964 replacing the positions of Minister of Defence, First Lord of the Admiralty, Secretary of State for War and Secretary of State for Air, while the individual offices of the British Armed Forces were abolished and their functions transferred to the Ministry of Defence. In 1997, Michael Portillo was filling this post at the time of the Portillo moment. In 2019, Penny Mordaunt became the UK's first female defence secretary. The postholder is supported by the other ministers in the Defence Ministerial team and the MOD permanent secretary. The corresponding shadow minister is the shadow secretary of state for defence, and the sec ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
British Admiralty
The Admiralty was a department of the Government of the United Kingdom responsible for the command of the Royal Navy until 1964, historically under its titular head, the Lord High Admiral – one of the Great Officers of State. For much of its history, from the early 18th century until its abolition, the role of the Lord High Admiral was almost invariably put "in commission" and exercised by the Lords Commissioner of the Admiralty, who sat on the governing Board of Admiralty, rather than by a single person. The Admiralty was replaced by the Admiralty Board in 1964, as part of the reforms that created the Ministry of Defence and its Navy Department (later Navy Command). Before the Acts of Union 1707, the Office of the Admiralty and Marine Affairs administered the Royal Navy of the Kingdom of England, which merged with the Royal Scots Navy and the absorbed the responsibilities of the Lord High Admiral of the Kingdom of Scotland with the unification of the Kingdom of Great ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Malta
Malta ( , , ), officially the Republic of Malta ( mt, Repubblika ta' Malta ), is an island country in the Mediterranean Sea. It consists of an archipelago, between Italy and Libya, and is often considered a part of Southern Europe. It lies south of Sicily (Italy), east of Tunisia, and north of Libya. The official languages are Maltese and English, and 66% of the current Maltese population is at least conversational in the Italian language. Malta has been inhabited since approximately 5900 BC. Its location in the centre of the Mediterranean has historically given it great strategic importance as a naval base, with a succession of powers having contested and ruled the islands, including the Phoenicians and Carthaginians, Romans, Greeks, Arabs, Normans, Aragonese, Knights of St. John, French, and British, amongst others. With a population of about 516,000 over an area of , Malta is the world's tenth-smallest country in area and fourth most densely populated sovereign cou ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Selby
Selby is a market town and civil parish in the Selby District of North Yorkshire, England, south of York on the River Ouse, with a population at the 2011 census of 14,731. The town was historically part of the West Riding of Yorkshire until 1974. Selby once had a large shipbuilding industry, and was an important port on the Selby Canal which brought trade from Leeds. History The town's origins date from the establishment of a Viking settlement on the banks of the River Ouse. Archaeological investigations in Selby have revealed extensive remains, including waterlogged deposits in the core of the town dating from the Roman period onwards. It is believed that Selby originated as a settlement called Seletun which was referred to in the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle of AD 779. The place-name 'Selby' is first attested in a Yorkshire charter , where it appears as ''Seleby''. It appears as ''Selbi'' . The name is thought to be a Scandinavian form of Seletun, meaning ' sallow tree settlemen ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Empire Ace
''Empire Ace'' was a 275-ton tug which was built in 1942 for the Ministry of War Transport (MoWT). She was transferred to the Admiralty in 1947 and renamed ''Diligent''. She was transferred to the Ministry of Defence in 1961 and reverted to ''Empire Ace''. She ran aground in 1968 and was scrapped in 1971. History ''Empire Ace'' was built by Cochrane & Sons Ltd, Selby as yard number 1255. She was launched on 12 September 1942 and completed on 22 December 1942. She was built for the MoWT. ''Empire Ace'' was sent to Malta. She was member of convoy RS-3 in March 1943. She was a member of Convoy KMS 25 which passed Gibraltar on 19 September 1943. She had sailed from ''Algiers'' with an unrecorded destination, but likely to have been Malta. ''Empire Ace'' was sunk during an air raid on Malta on 15 March 1944. On the 10 May she was salvaged and repairs were carried out. In 1947 she was transferred to the Admiralty and renamed ''Diligence''. In 1961, ''Diligence'' was transferred ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
German Submarine U-96 (1940)
German submarine ''U-96'' was a Type VIIC U-boat of the German Navy (''Kriegsmarine'') during World War II. Her keel was laid down on 16 September 1939, by Germaniawerft, of Kiel as yard number 601. She was commissioned on 14 September 1940, with ''Kapitänleutnant'' Heinrich Lehmann-Willenbrock in command. Lehmann-Willenbrock was relieved in March 1942 by ''Oberleutnant zur See'' Hans-Jürgen Hellriegel, who was relieved in turn in March 1943 by ''Oblt.z.S.'' Wilhelm Peters. In February 1944, ''Oblt.z.S.'' Horst Willner took command, turning the boat over to ''Oblt.z.S.'' Robert Rix in June of that year. Rix commanded the boat until 15 February 1945. During autumn 1941, war correspondent Lothar-Günther Buchheim joined ''U-96'' for her seventh patrol. This experience was the basis for his 1973 bestselling novel ''Das Boot'', which was adapted into the 1981 Oscar-nominated film of the same name. Design German Type VIIC submarines were preceded by the shorter Type VIIB su ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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