Royal merchant navy help please

[TWINKLESTAR]

Hi I dont know if it possible but I am trying to find pictures of 3 boats that my husbands grandfather worked on I have 3 discharge certificates on these certificates are the date he was on the ships and the ships name in front of the ships names are the letters S/S
I have tried to google but with no luck
does any one know of a web site That might help me

The names of the ships are
ss teal 146150 the year was january 1937
ss merel 148680 the year 1936
ss foam queen 145716 the year 1937

Thanks in advance for any help

Tracy

[Janet in Yorkshire]

RootsWeb: TheShipsList-L Re: [TSL] ss Foam Queen lost 1943

No picture, but some information about SS Foam Queen

Jay

[TWINKLESTAR]

Jay thanks so much I will go and have a look

Tracy

[Christine in Herts]

There is this somewhat specialist site: News : Ship Photos - AIS - Free Membership - The worlds largest archive

But the pictures may be too modern for you.

Christine

[naomiatt]

Hi - this site might be able to help (seems to be a few ships who had the name of Teal)
The British Merchant Navy - Old Friends Plus - Powered by vBulletin and
MNA.org.uk Homepage for the merchant navy association
Merchant Navy Losses WWII
red-duster.co.uk Homepage for the red duster merchant navy maritime information archive

[TWINKLESTAR]

Thanks so for the links I will have a look
Thanks again Tracy

[garstonite]

Do you know where he was based....?....allan

[TWINKLESTAR]

Hi Alan it says place of engagement london he was also born in london
Is that any help
Tracy

[Uncle John]

Just an observation about Royal/ Merchant Navy. In this case it's merchant navy because the ships are SS (steamship). RMS (Royal Mail Ship) is another merchant ship designation. Royal Navy ships are designated HMS (His/Her Majesty's Ship).

Just to confuse things, occasionally a Royal Navy man serves on a merchant ship (my f-i-l was a RN radio operator on merchant ships in the WWII Atlantic convoys).

[TWINKLESTAR]

Hi John I am now confused lol the ships he worked on were ss ships all three ships had ss written infront of them
On his certificate from cwgc it says S.S Souliotlis (of Greece) merchant navy
Im not sure what this means ?

So I have answered my own question I think

Tracy

[skingers2]

Because you have the ships number you could try
www.miramarshipindex.org.nz/
I have found my dad's ships with lots of info but no pics
or www.theshipslist.com they do have a gallery.
Ros

[Southwick]

Here is a useful site, I've directed you to SS Teal out of London to get you started.

Old Ship Picture Thumbnails T (Teal-04)

[TWINKLESTAR]

thankyou to both of you I do not come on here every day so only just looked at your posting
thanks again for your help
Tracy