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  • Thumbnail for Canada Shipping Act
    the British Commonwealth Merchant Shipping Agreement, a treaty between British dominions. This led to the creation of the domestic Canada Shipping Act...
    15 KB (1,661 words) - 11:16, 6 May 2024
  • Thumbnail for British merchant seamen of World War II
    Registrar General of Shipping and Seamen calculated that 144,000 merchant seamen were serving aboard British registered merchant ships at the outbreak...
    65 KB (9,067 words) - 04:45, 15 August 2023
  • an invasion of the British Isles. Germany's seemingly unstoppable military, its submarine campaign against British merchant shipping, and its neutrality...
    8 KB (957 words) - 05:09, 19 October 2023
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    Australian red ensign (category Flags of the British Empire)
    of the Commonwealth Blue Ensign is reserved for Commonwealth Government use but there is no reservation in the case of the Commonwealth Merchant Flag,...
    13 KB (1,502 words) - 10:12, 17 May 2024
  • admiralty law has a less expansive meaning under the Merchant Shipping Act 1995, where a "relevant British possession", includes the Crown Dependencies (the...
    52 KB (6,124 words) - 16:00, 21 June 2024
  • Dominion (redirect from White Commonwealth)
    evolution of the British Empire into the Commonwealth of Nations, finalised in 1949, the dominions became independent states, either as Commonwealth republics...
    91 KB (10,309 words) - 21:01, 5 June 2024
  • Thumbnail for First Anglo-Dutch War
    the Commonwealth of England and the Dutch Republic. Largely caused by disputes over trade, it began with English attacks on Dutch merchant shipping, but...
    61 KB (8,195 words) - 18:25, 25 April 2024
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    America) to Britain. With the outbreak of the Anglo-Spanish War of Jenkins' Ear in 1739, Spanish privateers attacked British merchant shipping along the...
    150 KB (17,101 words) - 18:42, 23 June 2024
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    the heavy losses sustained by merchant shipping in the First World War—more than 17,000 people died and some 3,300 British and Empire-registered commercial...
    42 KB (4,723 words) - 20:38, 18 October 2023
  • Trianon of 4 June 1920; Letters and Declaration 1931 – British Commonwealth Merchant Shipping Agreement 1931 – Protocol concerning the Suspension of Payments...
    379 KB (36,726 words) - 09:31, 16 May 2024
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    in August. Britain invaded to forestall a German occupation, to provide a base for naval and air patrols, and to protect merchant shipping lanes from...
    29 KB (2,672 words) - 19:53, 22 June 2024
  • Navigation Acts (category Use British English from July 2018)
    ships to participate in the carrying trade to Britain. By reserving British colonial trade to British shipping, the Acts may have significantly assisted in...
    61 KB (7,103 words) - 18:13, 9 June 2024
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    Union Jack (redirect from British Flag)
    criminal offence under the Merchant Shipping Act 1995 to display the Union Flag (other than the "pilot jack" – see below) from a British ship. Naval ships will...
    134 KB (14,531 words) - 22:07, 21 June 2024
  • Thumbnail for Arctic convoys of World War II
    1943 and 1944. About 1,400 merchant ships delivered essential supplies to the Soviet Union under the Anglo-Soviet Agreement and US Lend-Lease program,...
    38 KB (3,292 words) - 01:06, 14 June 2024
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    a supply port and stop attacks by Arab pirates against British shipping to India. The British Government thereafter considered Aden to be an important...
    35 KB (4,186 words) - 19:15, 22 June 2024
  • Thumbnail for Flag of Australia
    the British Blue Ensign—a blue field with the Union Jack in the upper hoist quarter—augmented with a large white seven-pointed star (the Commonwealth Star)...
    73 KB (8,332 words) - 10:57, 23 June 2024
  • Admiralty law (redirect from Shipping law)
    Pakistan is also classified as shipping law. The Pakistan Merchant Shipping Ordinance 2001 has replaced the Merchant Shipping Act 1923. This replacement was...
    43 KB (5,475 words) - 19:23, 22 May 2024
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    shipping and air lifts to take aid to the island; the scale of destruction having left most people homeless. Dominica won its first two Commonwealth Games...
    116 KB (10,947 words) - 12:21, 19 June 2024
  • John Goodrich (Loyalist) (category American merchants)
    John Goodrich (1722–1785) was a Virginia-born British planter, merchant shipper, and privateer. Uncommitted at the beginning of the American Revolution...
    9 KB (1,306 words) - 22:52, 30 December 2023
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    interests, exemplified by the attacks by Francis Drake on Spanish merchant shipping and its harbours. Partly to provide a pretext for ongoing hostilities...
    27 KB (3,519 words) - 18:40, 14 June 2024
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