Sources
The references and sources in the table below have been used in the construction of this website and are referenced from the pages where used.
Ref. # | Source |
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1 | Miramar Ship Index: Subscription Website containing basic information about a very large number of merchant navy ships with search facilities based on ships name and official number. |
2 | Ubootwaffe.net Website: Website dedicated to WW2 U boats and their exploits. Unfortunately no longer available. |
3 | Uboat.net Website: Website dedicated to WW2 and WW1 U boats and includes information about ships damaged and sunk. |
4 | Convoyweb Convoy Database: An extensive and highly recommended Website that includes comprehensive information about WW2 convoys and other voyages of merchant ships and some information about ships that were lost. |
5 | Warsailors.com: Norwegian website that includes information about WW2 convoys. |
6 | Tom Proctor: Article included in BBC WW2 People’s War |
7 | Air of Authority: Website dedicated to the history of the RAF. |
8 | Wikipaedia entry: Vickers Wellington |
9 | 244 Squadron 244 Squadron Newsletters |
10 | World Guns Website: Article about the Colt Browning M1895/14 machine gun, made by Marlin Corp |
11 | FirstWorldWar.com website: Article about the Marlin machine gun |
12 | Anderson, John: Nevil Shute and the DMWD, Available online at The Neville Shute Norway Foundation |
13 | Navweaps website: Site specialising in naval weaponry |
14 | Friends of HMCS Haida: Website dedicated to the last WW2 Tribal Class Destroyer |
15 | Guns Magazine: March 2000, Article by Robert Bruce: The Lewis Gun - Product Information |
16 | Sir Archibald Hunt: Britain's Merchant Navy, Odhams Press Limited (no publishing date but estimated at 1942-43 based on content) |
17 | Hague, Arnold (2003): The Allied Convoy System, 1939-1945 : Its Organization, Defence and Operation; Chatham Publishing, ISBN: 1861761473 | 18 | Picture Stockton: Online Photographic Collection website |
19 | Thames Sailing Barge website: Page on Decima |
20 | Ahoy - Mac’s Web Log: Naval, Maritime, Australian History and More |
21 | WW2 People's War: WW2 People's War is an online archive of wartime memories contributed by members of the public and gathered by the BBC. The archive can be found at http://bbc.co.uk/ww2peopleswar |
22 | Australian War Memorial: Appendix from document regarding Defensively Equipped Merchant Ships |
23 | Hervey Benham: Down Tops'l, George G Harrap & Co. Ltd, 1951, ISBN 0 245 50661 |
24 | HMSO (1947): British Vessels lost at sea 1939-45; reprinted by Patrick Stephens, Cambridge 1983 ISBN 0-85059 659 9 |
25 | Wikipedia entry for Thomas Kelly GC |
26 | Bill Taylor's Memoir: My Unusual Voyage Aboard the Empress of Asia and the Aftermath |
27 | A History of the Fire Service in Epsom and Ewell |
28 | By courtesy of The Allen Collection |
29 | Provenance unknown |
30 | By courtesy of Chris Anderson |
31 | By courtesy of Anthony Bernthal |
32 | By courtesy of Wikipedia and Wikipedia Commons |
33 | By courtesy of Guy Freeman |
34 | By courtesy of Captain Carré |
35 | By courtesy of Richard Crow |
36 | By courtesy of the Tom Rayner Collection |
37 | By courtesy of the P & O Collection |
38 | By courtesy of the Australia War Memorial Collection |
39 | By courtesy of Kevin Patience |
40 | By courtesy of The British Library |
41 | By courtesy of Kinyarwanda Hope Magazine |
42 | By courtesy of Real Photographs Co. Ltd. |
43 | By courtesy of the State Library of Queensland |
44 | By courtesy of Philip Dilworth |
45 | By courtesy of naval-history.net |
46 | By courtesy of IndianVeterans.com |
47 | By courtesy of Google Earth |
48 | By courtesy of Dennis Lockyer |
49 | By courtesy of HMSLondon.co.uk |
50 | By courtesy of The Simon's Town Historical Society |
51 | By courtesy of Geoffrey Bamford |
52 | By courtesy of Stan Mayes |
53 | By courtesy of Donald MacFadyen |
54 | By courtesy of Google Street View |
55 | By courtesy of the State Library of Tasmania |
56 | By courtesy of the Old Worcester Association |
57 | By courtesy of Duncan Hawes |
58 | By courtesy of Australian War Memorial Nautical Collection |
59 | By courtesy of Old Ship Picture Galleries |
60 | By courtesy of Fire Brigades of Surrey Preservation Trust |
61 | By courtesy of The Daily Mail |
62 | By courtesy of Bomb Site - mapping the WW2 bomb census |
63 | By courtesy of London Fire |
64 | By courtesy of Tops'l Magazine |
65 | By courtesy of Roger Beckett |
66 | From Brian Watson's photograph and postcard collection |
67 | By courtesy of Britain from Above |
68 | By courtesy of Clive Ketley |
69 | By courtesy of Historical RFA |
70 | By courtesy of Heidi Jaggs |
71 | By courtesy of The Gravesend Messenger |
72 | By courtesy of Bill Ross |
73 | By courtesy of Malcolm Salter |
74 | By courtesy of State Library of Victoria - Allan C. Green collection of glass negatives |
75 | By courtesy of the A. J. Smythe Collection |
76 | By courtesy of the Imperial War Museum |
77 | By courtesy of World Aircraft Carriers List |
78 | By courtesy of the South Australian Maritime Museum |
79 | By courtesy of the Illustrated London News |
80 | By courtesy of the former website merchantnavyofficers.com. This excellent website closed in 2014 following the sad death of the website owner Fred Waddington. With the agreement of his widow Bobbie I have re-published as much of the material from the website as I can so that it is not lost. |
81 | By courtesy of Phil Witten and Judith Phillips (neé Witten) |
82 | By courtesy of the Benjidog Tower Hill website |
83 | By courtesy of Al Wouters |
84 | By courtesy of Clare Koebert |
85 | By courtesy of Peter Wells |
86 | By courtesy of The Birmingham Daily Mail |
87 | By courtesy of The Lichfield Mercury |
88 | By courtesy of The Hastings and St Leonards Observer |
89 | By courtesy of Nottingham Evening Post |
90 | By courtesy of The Torbay Express and South Devon Echo |
91 | By courtesy of The Exeter and Plymouth Gazette |
92 | By courtesy of The Aberdeen Press and Journal |
93 | By courtesy of The Harlepool Daily Mail |
94 | By courtesy of The Stage |
95 | By courtesy of The Burnley Express |
96 | By courtesy of The Barnoldswick & Earby Times |
97 | By courtesy of The East Kent Times and Mail |
98 | Original geneological research by Brian Watson |
99 | By courtesy of Steve Traynor |
100 | By courtesy of the Belfast Newsletter |
101 | By courtesy of the Heathfield School Magazine |
102 | By courtesy of the Sheffield Evening Telegraph |
103 | By courtesy of the Western Mail |
104 | By courtesy of the Philadelphia Inquirer |
105 | By courtesy of the Leicester Chronicle |
106 | By courtesy of The Globe |
107 | By courtesy of The Era |
108 | By courtesy of Ancestry.com |
109 | By courtesy of Tiller Girls |
110 | By courtesy of The Daily Mirror |
111 | By courtesy of The Liverpool Echo |
112 | By courtesy of The Shields Daily News |
113 | By courtesy of The Sunderland Daily Echo and Shipping Gazette |
114 | By courtesy of The illustrated Sporting and Dramatic News |
115 | By courtesy of The Birmingham Daily Gazette |
116 | By courtesy of The Western Daily Press |
117 | By courtesy of the Leicester Evening Mail |
118 | By courtesy of The Western Morning News |
119 | By courtesy of The Chelmsford Chronicle |
120 | By courtesy of The West London Star |
121 | By courtesy of The West London Observer |
122 | By courtesy of The Weekly Dispatch |
123 | By courtesy of The Sunday Pictorial |
124 | By courtesy of The London Daily News |
125 | By courtesy of The Manchester Evening News |
126 | By courtesy of the Sheffield Daily Telegraph |
127 | By courtesy of the Northants Evening Telegraph |
128 | By courtesy of the Newcastle Chronicle |
129 | By courtesy of the Daily Record |
130 | By courtesy of the National Library of Scotland |
131 | By courtesy of The Evaning Dispatch |
132 | By courtesy of The Birmingham Mail |
133 | By courtesy of The Bedfordshire Times and Independent |
134 | By courtesy of The Tamworth Herald |
135 | By courtesy of The Sussex Agricultural Express |
136 | By courtesy of The Grantham Journal |
137 | By courtesy of The Market Harborough Advertiser and Midland Mail |
138 | By courtesy of Margot Blackah |
139 | By courtesy of British Pathé |
140 | By courtesy of Pictorialpress.com |
141 | By courtesy of The Thanet Advertiser |
142 | By courtesy of The Morecambe Guardian |
143 | By courtesy of The Somerset Guardian and Radstock Observer |
144 | By courtesy of The West Briton and Cornwall Advertiser |
145 | By courtesy of The Montrose Standard |
146 | By courtesy of The BBC |
146 | By courtesy of The Hampshire Telegraph |
147 | By courtesy of IMDb |
148 | By courtesy of Clark Gray, North Laine Community Association |
147 | By courtesy of The Coventry Evening Telegraph |
148 | By courtesy of The Kent and Sussex Courier |
149 | By courtesy of The Aberdeen Evening Express |