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During the Second World War designated convoy rescue ships accompanied some Atlantic convoys to rescue survivors from ships that had been attacked. Rescue ships were typically small freighters with passenger accommodations converted to rescue service. This involved enlarging galley and food storage areas and providing berthing and sanitary facilities for approximately 150 men. Preparation for service included the installation of scrambling nets along the sides, and the substitution of boats suitable for open sea work for normal lifeboats. Rescue ships normally included a small operating room for an embarked naval doctor and sick bay staff.
The first specially-equipped rescue ship went into service in January 1941. When rescue ships were unavailable, large, ocean-going tugboats or converted trawlers were sometimes designated to perform rescue duty.
By the end of the war 30 rescue ships had been built or converted. They participated in 797 convoys and rescued 4,194 survivors from 119 ships. Six rescue ships were lost, five to enemy action (three to U-boats and two to aircraft).
Private Security Contractors, otherwise known as "Mercenaries" Unload on Somali Pirates Trying To Hijack a Ship off the Coast of Somalia
Our convoy's been ambushed. We must hold the area until friendlies secure our position for vehicle recovery and extract. Role: Infantry, Alpha 2, Automatic Rifleman Enemy: AI Game: Arma 2: Combined Operations Mods: http://bit.ly/ArmaMods Terrain: Aliabad http://patreon.com/chkilroy http://chkilroy.com/about http://twitter.com/chkyt http://facebook.com/chkilroy http://shacktac.com
This song is about the clash of the Allied convoy ONS-92 and the wolf pack "Hecht" (pike) of the German Kriegsmarine on May 12th 1942, when 7 ships of the convoy were sunken in the North Atlantic. "Gleaves" and "Ingham" are the names of 2 American warships. The British rescue ship "Bury" was equipped with the new HF/DF-technology whose inadequate use in part explained the disaster. U-124 (Korvettenkapitän Johann Mohr): Cristales (British), Empire Dell (British), Llanover (British), Mount Parnes (Greek) U-94 (Kapitänleutnant Otto Ites): Cocle (Panamanian), Batna (British), Tolken (Swedish) Fanmade music video: http://youtu.be/75sAIIiLAhc CAUTION! I won't tolerate any racist, discriminatory or in any other form inappropriate comments! This song neither glorifies war, nor National Sociali...
War on Wheels is a 1943 confidential industrial film bulletin created for propaganda purposes. It was principally directed by Secretary of War Robert P. Patterson to the those involved in the production of tanks and to the men and women of automotive industries to show them the combat performance of the vehicles they have built. What it took to get a mechanized convoy through in the North African campaign serves as an illustration. The film portrays an American truck convoy ambushed by German tanks and rescued by group of United States medium tanks. Compares the mechanized strengths of the Axis powers versus those of the United States. This film is part of the Periscope Film LLC archive, one of the largest historic military, transportation, and aviation stock footage collections in the US...
An outward bound convoy of merchant ships is escorted by destroyers. You can license this story through AP Archive: http://www.aparchive.com/metadata/youtube/86ca914eac2044b8a7218d3114f4354d Find out more about AP Archive: http://www.aparchive.com/HowWeWork
Naval Photographic Center film # 16555. National Archives description: " 1) LS British aircraft carrier underway, launches planes. 2) CU British gun crews and watchers spot aircraft overhead. 3) CU O-1 Pom-Pom gun firing at German plane, near bomb hit. 4) CU Pom-Pom gun firing (SV). 5) LS German plane diving at carrier. 6) LS Carrier and socort DD's underway, in heavy seas" This movie is part of the collection: WWII Archive Producer: United States. Navy Audio/Visual: silent, black & white Language: English Keywords: WWII; World War, 1939-1945 -- Campaigns -- Atlantic Ocean; Great Britain. Royal Navy; World War, 1939-1945 -- Aerial Operations, German; World War II; World War, 1939-1945; Antiaircraft Artillery; World War, 1939-1945 -- Naval Operations, British; Newsreel National Archives...
British fire trucks in Germany Once again volunteers from the Shropshire Fire and Rescue Service, acting as Operation Sabre UK, transfer some out of service fire trucks to fire departments in Romania, where they will be used in the future and replace older units. On their way they always pass the city of Regensburg in the Free State of Bavaria, German. Either they steay for the night or just make a short afternoon stop before they proceed towards Austria
An interview with Bob Cowan, 93, from Chorlton Manchester. He describes what it was like to be in the Arctic Convoys and to have been rescued from the water after being on a ship (HMS Mashona) that was sunk. He also describes his experiences on the Malta convoys. Bob went on to serve in the Pacific campaign, to have been present at the surrender of Japan and to have walked through Hiroshima shortly after the Atomic Bomb. The campaign to have the Arctic Convoy veterans contribution to the defence of this country in WWs is described in a clip from his interview with Granada TV in October 2013. This campaign which was supported and promoted by Bob's friends at Chorlton Good Neighbours, was successful when the Prime Minister in PM Questions Time in December 2013, announced the awarding of an...
Well, here it is. In yet another confounding contradiction of Posse Comitatus, I pick up where the last military patrol left off. In this video, we first try to fly the C17 cargo plane over the biker camp WITH the Humvee in it, like I tried to do a while back in an another military patrol, except with the Titan plane. This time it works, except once it's time to go wheels up, I can't get in the Humvee. We have to do it the old-fashioned way on the ground, in a convoy. The squad pulls up to the outskirts of the biker gang camp/illegal drug HQ, and then I go search for evidence at sea in a boat with a dive team. When we get there, I figure out that the drug evidence is actually ON a cargo ship, not in the water near it, so we have to go on the boat. A skirmish ensues, we photograph the evide...
Flags Of Our Fathers (2006) -------------------------------------------- Why didn't they stop for the man who fell overboard? Several reasons: (1) They were in a convoy going 10-12 knots. It would be absurd for a convoy, with anywhere from 10-50 ships, surrounded by 3-8 destroyers to stop in mid-ocean and mill around trying to find one man. Not only was a convoy required to stay on schedule; but stopping would put the whole convoy at risk for air and submarine attack. (2) Accordingly, standard naval procedure was for a transport that lost a man overboard to hoist a flag (or send message via other means) indicating man overboard. The last ships in the convoy and the trailing destroyers would then try to locate him and pick him up. In fact, usually one merchant ship or destroyer at the tail...
Flier reached Pearl Harbor from New London, Connecticut, on 20 December 1943, and prepared for her first war patrol, sailing 12 January 1944.[5] However, the submarine ran aground near Midway Island on 16 January. Macaw, a Chanticleer-class submarine rescue ship, attempted to pull Flier free but ran aground herself and sank. Flier was eventually saved by Florikan and towed to first Pearl Harbor and then the Mare Island Navy Yard for repairs.[6] On 21 May she sailed again for action, heading for a patrol area west of Luzon. She made her first contact on 4 June, attacking a well-escorted convoy of five merchantmen.[5] Firing three torpedoes at each of two ships, she sent the transport Hakusan Maru to the bottom and scored a hit on another ship, before clearing the area to evade countermeasur...
My Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/george.ioannidis4 Το μυστήριο της βύθισης του HMS Curacoa, ενός πολεμικού πλοίου του Β΄ Παγκόσμιου Πολέμου, το οποίο συγκρούστηκε με το Queen Mary και βυθίστηκε 50 μίλια ανοικτά των ακτών της Ιρλανδίας το 1942. Το πλοίο συνόδευε μεταγωγικό που μετέφερε 20.000 αμερικανικά στρατεύματα, στο Clyde όταν συνέβη το ατύχημα, όμως στη συνέχεια ένα πέπλο μυστηρίου κάλυψε τις λεπτομέρειες του συμβάντος. ▀ ▀ ▀ ▀ ▀ ▀ ▀ ▀ ▀ ▀ ▀ ▀ ▀ ▀ ▀ ▀ ▀ ▀ ▀ ▀ ▀ ▀ ▀ ▀ ▀ ▀ ▀ ▀ ▀ ▀ ▀ ▀ ▀ ▀ ▀ ▀ ▀ ▀ ▀ ▀ ▀ ▀ ▀ ▀ ▀ ▀ ▀ ▀ ► HMS Curacoa (D41) ◄ HMS Curacoa, named after the island Curaçao in the Caribbean Sea, was a Ceres group C-class light cruiser. In 1942, she became one of the Royal Navy's major accidental losses during the Second World War. ► Collision On 2 October 1942 about 60 k...
From the big red ships that seamen call their "knights" to the smaller white ships that can enter frozen river estuaries, Russia's icebreakers pave the way through the frozen arctic for commercial vessels and military convoys, allowing passage between Russia's European ports and the Pacific. They are a reliable and indispensable addition to any trans-Arctic ocean voyage. Join RT as we team up with the crew of one of these amazing nuclear-powered vessels as it traverses the top of the world. RTD WEBSITE: http://RTD.rt.com/ RTD ON TWITTER: http://twitter.com/RT_DOC RTD ON FACEBOOK: http://www.facebook.com/RTDocumentary
Today we set out across Omek Prime's wasteland once more in a selection of Torvak vehicles, in an attempt to recover the missing pieces of our ship and escape this wretched place. Will luck be on our side? Let's find out! Stay connected and informed by following me on these sites: Twitch: http://www.twitch.tv/vanguardofvalor Patreon: http://www.patreon.com/VanguardOfValor Twitter: http://twitter.com/Vanguard_VoV Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/VanguardOfValorOfficial Steam: http://steamcommunity.com/groups/VanguardOfValor Intro/outro music from audionautix.com Thanks for watching and enjoy!
Many people wanted to watch an EPIC ARMA episode where we would either be ambushing a convoy or defending a convoy. We bring you the first attempt of this in this World War 2 scenario that Cody has made. We are the German forces and we need to escort a convoy out of Belgium. Somewhere along the way, enemies prepared an ambush for us. Will we reach our destination?
Commemorations at Albany, Western Australia, for 100th Anniversary of the sailing of the first convoy of ships from Australia and New Zealand for the First World War on 1st November, 1914. Commemorations included a Troop March up and down York Street, Albany by Current and Returned Servicemen, and a symbolic re-enactment of the sailing of the 1st Convoy by warships of the Australian, New Zealand and Japanese Navies sailing line astern into King George Sound. The Convoy headed to Egypt carrying troops and supplies and many of the troops then went on to Gallipoli and later France. Albany was the last port of call in Australia and the last many ever saw of their homeland. The convoy of 36 ships formed up in King George Sound before being escorted out of the harbour by HMS Miinotaur, HMAS Syd...
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