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Allied Warships
Check out our new extensive section on all the Allied Warships during WWII in all theatres of the war.Over 11.300 ships
During the Battle of the Atlantic in the early years of World War II, the German U-Boats were sinking allied merchant ships at an alarming rate. Unless more ships were built to replace those sunk, the war effort would grind to a halt. Cargo ships would have to be replaced faster than the U-Boats could sink them. In May 1941, the rate of German sinkings of merchant ships was more than three times the capacity of British shipyards to replace them, and more than twice the rate of combined British and American shipyard output at the time.
One of the most effective way to defeat the German tonnage-war was to build more ships than the Germans could sink.
The Wartime Shipbuilding Program
Read about this massive program designed to defeat the tonnage war and supply the continued and expanding war effort. It lists the many types of ships needed to build.
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Books dealing with this subject include: Arktyka odpiera atak, Wilczek, Wojciech, 1974  Atlas Of Maritime History, Natkiel, Richard and Preston, Antony, 1986  Bataille de l'Atlantique, Guierre, Maurice, 1967 The Battle of The Atlantic, Williams, Andrew, 2002 Beware Raiders!, Edwards, Bernard, 2001 The Black Pit ... and Beyond, Mumford, J. Gordon, 2000 Boarding Party, Leasor, James, 1995 British and Commonwealth Merchant Ship Losses to Axis Submarines, 1939-1945, Tennent, Alan, 2001 British Merchant Ships Sunk by U-boats in the 1914-1918 War, Tennent, A. J., 1990 British Vessels Lost at Sea 1914-18, N/A, 1977  Burlando el bloqueo, Amich, Julián, 1995 The Canadian Naval Chronicle 1939-1945, Darlington, Robert and McKee, Fraser M., 1998 A Careless Word ... A Needless Sinking, Moore, Arthur R., 1983 The Catafighters and Merchant Aircraft Carriers, Poolman, Kenneth, 1970 Conflict over Convoys, Smith, Kevin, 2002 Convoy, Kaplan, Philip and Currie, Jack, 1998 Corsarios Alemanes en la Segunda Guerra Mundial, de la Sierra, Luis, 1960 Deep Their Grave, Gyles, Tony, 2000  Die deutsche Handelsflotte 1939-1945, Dinklage, Ludwig and Witthöft, Hans Jürgen, 2001 Druga Mala Flota, Pertek, Jerzy, 1983 The Empire Ships, Sawyer, L. A. and Mitchell, W.H., 1990 Die Fahrt der 'Deutschland', König, Paul, 1916 (transl.) The Fighting Commodores, Burn, Alan, 1999 Fighting Merchantmen, Goodman, Sydney, 2001 The Fourth Service, Slader, John, 1997 The Giving Years, Irvine, James W., 1991 Good Shipmates The Story of the Restoration of the Liberty Ship John W. Brown, Ernest F. Imhoff, 2006 A Great Fleet of Ships, Heal, S.C., 2000  Guerra segreta sugli oceani, Santoni, Alberto, 1984 Heroes in Dungarees, Bunker, John, 1995 Heroes of the Atlantic, Halstead, Ivor, 1941 Hitler's Secret Pirate Fleet, Duffy, James P., 2001  I Drasi tou Polemikou kai Emporikou Ellinikou Naftikou kata ton B' Pagosmio Polemo, Manolas, Stamatios G., R. Adm. (ret.), Economist - Attorney at Law, 1998 In Danger's Hour, Holman, Gordon, 1948 Kleska konwoju PQ-17, Szubanski, Rajmund, 1985 The Land That Time Forgot, Burroughs, Edgar Rice, 1999 The Last Voyage of the SS Henry Bacon, Alotta, Robert I., 2002 Liberty Ship, Cooper, Sherod, 1997 Lifeline, Carse, Robert, 1943 Liners in Battledress, Williams, David, 1997 Ludzie glebin, Umiastowski, Roman, 1929 La Marina mercante y el tráfico marítimo en la Guerra Civil Española, Gonzalez Echegaray, Rafael, 2003 La Marina Mercante, British Ministry of Propaganda, 1943 La Marine marchande française 1939/1940, Saibène/Brouard/Mercier, 1996 The Merchant Navy Fights, Divine, A. D., 1940 The Merchant Seaman's War, Lane, Tony, 1990 The Merchant U-boat, Messimer, Dwight R., 1988 A Midshipman's War, Wade, Frank, 1994  More v plamenech, Hubacek, Milos, 2001 Neptuno, German Ministry of Propaganda, 1942 Patriots and Heroes, Reminick, Gerald, 2000 Raider 16, Hoyt, Edwin, 1988 (transl.) S.O.S. Paulus Potter, Rep, Jelte, 1984  Saattue nakyvissa, Nylund, Frans, 1974 Schiff 16, Rogge, Bernhard, 1955 (transl.) Ships for Victory, Lane, Frederic Chapin, 2001 Shooting the War, Giese, Otto and Wise, Capt. James E. Jr. (Ret.), 1994 Stalin's Silver, Beasant, John, 1999 Submarine Torbay, Chapman, Paul, 1989 Survival Against the Odds, MacLeod, Donald J., 2000 The T-class Submarine, Kemp, Paul J., 1991 There Go The Ships, Carse, Robert, 1942 Torpedoes in the Gulf, Wiggins, Melanie, 1995 Track of the Grey Wolf, Gentile, Gary, 1989 Trzecia torpeda, Dyjeta, Henryk, 1973 Tuntematon merimies, Heikkinen, Helge, 1975 U.S. Merchant Vessel War Casualties of World War II, Browning, Robert M., 1995 Vaarallisilla vesilla, Heikkinen, Helge, 1960  Var tionde man måste dö, Hansson, Per, 2003 Victory Ships and Tankers, Sawyer, L. A., The World's Merchant Fleets, 1939, Jordan, Roger W., 2000 Åländska sjömän under andra världskriget, Ålands Nautical Club r.f., 1999 |