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World’s Merchant Fleets 1939, The by Roger Jordan w/ dust jacket
Worlds Merchant Fleets 1939, The by Roger Jordan
The particulars and wartime fates of 6000 ships
Hard Cover w/ dust jacket
624 pages
Copyright 1999, 2006
CONTENTS
IntroductionVI
AcknowledgementsVI
Explanatory NotesVII
AbbreviationsVIII
Shipbuilders IX
The World's Merchant Fleets1
Argentina2
Belgium4
Brazil7
Bulgaria8
Chile8
Denmark9
Egypt21
Estonia22
Finland23
France31
Germany51
Great Britain, Dominions and Colonies83
Greece202
Hungary224
Italy225
Japan247
Latvia268
Lithuania271
Mexico272
Netherlands272
Norway293
Palestine344
Panama344
Peru344
Poland345
Portugal345
Romania349
Spain351
Sweden360
Turkey374
Union of Soviet Socialist Republics376
United States of America380
Uruguay435
Yugoslavia
Losses441
Index of merchant vessel names600
INTRODUCTION
In common with scores of other authors and researchers over the years I had become increasingly irritated by the lack of easily located information concerning the world's ocean-going merchant fleet as it existed at about the time of the start of the Second World War. Company histories in print abound and with some delving it is often not too difficult a task to obtain information concerning a large number of vessels of this era, but by no means all of them.
Encouraged by others I embarked on this task to endeavour to rectify many of the shortcomings which have appeared in print postwar and present the results of my research in a familiar style.
The contents of this book are, under national and company headings, listings of oceangoing fleets as they existed at the end of 1939.
A large part of the book is devoted to vessels lost during the Second World War by both war causes and marine hazard. This part also includes listings of ocean-going vessels scuttled for war purposes (usually as blockships), vessels sunk as breakwaters in the Mulberry harbours following D-Day, vessels lost postwar through striking mines, and the many vessels which were sunk postwar laden with surplus war materials, including poison gas ammunition.
Further sections also list vessels which changed name, flag, role or otherwise disposed of during the war years.
Roger W Jordan
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