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Includes merchant ships of 1,000 gross tons and over. Excludes ships owned by the military forces. The ships of each country are subdivided into 4 major groups: Combination passenger and cargo ships, bulk carriers, tankers, and freighters.
At the outbreak of war in 1939 over 600 ships traded across the world's oceans and they were to become the pawns in the global conflict which was to permeate the operations of every shipping line on every continent. This book gives the details of al those ships which were extant in 1939 and describes the fate of all those which were lost between 1939 and 1945.