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About Us

The Merchant Navy has been forgotten when any history of the war is written yet without them the major battles would not have been won. During the World War II the British Merchant Navy lost over 2,400 ships due to war causes ranging from submarine attacks to collisions and running ashore in blackout conditions. Allied and Neutral vessels lost another 2,000 ships, the Japanese Merchant Navy was decimated and the German and Italian fleets were continually attacked in coastal waters or seized in foreign ports.
The Battle of the Atlantic commenced on 4th September 1939 with the sinking of the ATHENIA and finished on 6th May 1945 with the sinking of the AVONDALE PARK.

	We have comprehensive information on all British Merchant ships lost in WWII and are now working on Allied vessels and British ships lost in WWI.
	We have information on 12,000 ships lost in both wars.
	We have full histories of an additional 10,000 ships both pre and post war.
	We have over 1,000 survivors reports from British vessels lost.
	We have the names of over 31,000 Merchant Navy personnel who lost their lives linked into full information of how the ship was lost.
	We have the names of over 1,000 Maritime Royal Artillery Regiment gunners who lost their lives at sea also linked into the ship they were lost on.