Year: 1996 Language: english Author: Victor Young Genre: History Publisher: Shipping Books Format: PDF Quality: Scanned pages Pages count: 80 Description: Merchant ships built during the years of World War II. Some were conceived in peace, others came into being through the most urgent wartime necessity. While craftsmen shipbuilders created warbuilt ships in established shipyards, others came from the hands of farmers, shop assistants, labourers and housewives in shipyards as new as the ships themselves. Many ships were sunk, most survived, helping to rebuild the peace in a post war world. There is now a generation of shiplovers for whom the World War II standard types are, at best, a distant memory. For those of us who knew and loved these ships, this is an album to revive memories. For the new generation it may serve as a window on a past era. Perhaps a small time capsule recording the passing of a type of ship, and a style of seafaring that has gone for ever. In the 1950s and '60s colour photography was not as easily accessible, or of the quality, that we now take for granted. The result is that today, many who are interested in the ships of yesterday, have only a black and white image for reference. Most of the ships featured here are shown in the last stages of their commercial lives. Many went to shopbreakers a short time after the photographs were taken. This work is not intended as an in depth reference to World War II standard ships. There are many Allied and Axis designs not included. I have tried to illustrate a selection of survivors from the wartime standard fleets, as seen in the world's ports twenty or more years back. Ship types are grouped together (e.g. Empire, Liberty, Cl etc.) allowing design variations to be in close proximity. It has not been my intention to follow any chronological pattern with regard to construction dates. Brief tabular details are presented for selected ships of each type featured.
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Merchant Ships of World War II
Language: english
Author: Victor Young
Genre: History
Publisher: Shipping Books
Format: PDF
Quality: Scanned pages
Pages count: 80
Description: Merchant ships built during the years of World War II. Some were conceived in peace, others came into being through the most urgent wartime necessity. While craftsmen shipbuilders created warbuilt ships in established shipyards, others came from the hands of farmers, shop assistants, labourers and housewives in shipyards as new as the ships themselves. Many ships were sunk, most survived, helping to rebuild the peace in a post war world.
There is now a generation of shiplovers for whom the World War II standard types are, at best, a distant memory. For those of us who knew and loved these ships, this is an album to revive memories. For the new generation it may serve as a window on a past era. Perhaps a small time capsule recording the passing of a type of ship, and a style of seafaring that has gone for ever.
In the 1950s and '60s colour photography was not as easily accessible, or of the quality, that we now take for granted. The result is that today, many who are interested in the ships of yesterday, have only a black and white image for reference. Most of the ships featured here are shown in the last stages of their commercial lives. Many went to shopbreakers a short time after the photographs were taken. This work is not intended as an in depth reference to World War II standard ships. There are many Allied and Axis designs not included. I have tried to illustrate a selection of survivors from the wartime standard fleets, as seen in the world's ports twenty or more years back. Ship types are grouped together (e.g. Empire, Liberty, Cl etc.) allowing design variations to be in close proximity. It has not been my intention to follow any chronological pattern with regard to construction dates. Brief tabular details are presented for selected ships of each type featured.
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