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'
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
Merchant seamen crewed the ships of the British Merchant Navy which kept the United Kingdom supplied with raw materials, arms, ammunition, fuel, food and all of the necessities of a nation at war thro
Propaganda poster; note the "MN" buttonhole badge
A merchant ship in 1943
A merchant seaman in the London "Red Ensign" Seamen's Home, 1942
A veteran merchant seaman