The Merchant Navy is the collective name given to British civilian ships and the officers and ratings that man them. Merchant Navy vessels mostly fly the Red Ensign and the ships and ship's companies'
Badge of British Merchant Navy
Members of the ship's company of HMS Castle Harbour, assigned to the Royal Naval Dockyard as the Examination Service vessel (that inspected merchant ships). Crew members included seafarers from the Merchant Navy. HMS Castle Harbour would later be sunk by a German submarine while being delivered to the Mediterranean by a Merchant Navy crew
Second World War poster highlighting wartime dangers that the Merchant Navy faced
Sailors on board the merchant ship Empire Unity during World War II
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A merchant navy or merchant marine is the fleet of merchant vessels that are registered in a specific country. On merchant vessels, seafarers of various ranks and sometimes members of maritime trade u
Merchant Navy (United Kingdom)
…nautical ensign as the territorial flag on land use the Blue Ensign which in Bermuda is only flown from civil government vessels such as ferry boats). Merchant Navy British Overseas Territories and Crown Dependencies ensigns Bermuda British Virgin Islands Cayman Islands Falkland Islands Gibraltar Guernsey Isle of…
A portrait of a New Zealand Merchant Navy captain of a Fairmile 'submarine chaser', as he holds up and looks through a small coloured screen. This disc allows him to look into the sky to search for dive bombers without damaging his eyes.
Bulk carrier merchant navy ship