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SS Automedon, the Glossary

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Maritime incidents in November 1940
Ships built by Palmers Shipbuilding and Iron Company

Achilles

In Greek mythology, Achilles or Achilleus (Achilleús) was a hero of the Trojan War who was known as being the greatest of all the Greek warriors.

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Adlard Coles Nautical

Adlard Coles Nautical is a nautical publisher, with over 300 books in print.

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Automedon

In Greek mythology, Automedon (Ancient Greek: Αὐτομέδων), son of Diores, was Achilles' charioteer, who drove the immortal horses Balius and Xanthos.

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Beam (nautical)

The beam of a ship is its width at its widest point.

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Berlin

Berlin is the capital and largest city of Germany, both by area and by population.

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Bernhard Rogge

Bernhard Rogge (4 November 1899 – 29 June 1982) was a German naval officer who, during World War II, commanded a merchant raider.

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Blue Funnel Line

Alfred Holt and Company, trading as Blue Funnel Line, was a UK shipping company that was founded in 1866 and operated merchant ships for 122 years.

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Bordeaux

Bordeaux (Gascon Bordèu; Bordele) is a city on the river Garonne in the Gironde department, southwestern France.

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British Far East Command

The Far East Command was a British military command which had 2 distinct periods.

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Chariot

A chariot is a type of cart driven by a charioteer, usually using horses to provide rapid motive power.

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Chief mate

A chief mate (C/M) or chief officer, usually also synonymous with the first mate or first officer, is a licensed mariner and head of the deck department of a merchant ship.

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Code letters

Code letters or ship's call sign (or callsign) were a method of identifying ships before the introduction of modern navigation aids.

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Defensively equipped merchant ship

Defensively equipped merchant ship (DEMS) was an Admiralty Trade Division programme established in June 1939, to arm 5,500 British merchant ships with an adequate defence against enemy submarines and aircraft.

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Direction finding

Direction finding (DF), or radio direction finding (RDF), is the use of radio waves to determine the direction to a radio source.

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Empire of Japan

The Empire of Japan, also referred to as the Japanese Empire, Imperial Japan, or simply Japan, was the Japanese nation-state that existed from the Meiji Restoration in 1868 until the enactment of the reformed Constitution of Japan in 1947.

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Erwin Rommel

Johannes Erwin Eugen Rommel (15 November 1891 – 14 October 1944) was a German Generalfeldmarschall (field marshal) during World War II.

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Fall of Singapore

The fall of Singapore, also known as the Battle of Singapore, took place in the South–East Asian theatre of the Pacific War.

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Far East

The Far East is the geographical region that encompasses the easternmost portion of the Asian continent, including East, North, and Southeast Asia.

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Freetown

Freetown is the capital and largest city of Sierra Leone.

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Gear train

A gear train or gear set is a machine element of a mechanical system formed by mounting two or more gears on a frame such that the teeth of the gears engage.

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German auxiliary cruiser Atlantis

The German auxiliary cruiser Atlantis (HSK 2), known to the Kriegsmarine as Schiff 16 and to the Royal Navy as Raider-C, was a converted German ''Hilfskreuzer'' (auxiliary cruiser), or merchant or commerce raider of the Kriegsmarine, which, in World War II, travelled more than in 602 days, and sank or captured 22 ships with a combined tonnage of 144,384.

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Global Oriental

Global Oriental is an imprint of the Dutch publishing house Brill.

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Hebburn

Hebburn is a town in the South Tyneside borough of Tyne and Wear, England.

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Hermann Göring

Hermann Wilhelm Göring (or Goering;; 12 January 1893 – 15 October 1946) was a German politician, military leader, and convicted war criminal.

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Homer

Homer (Ὅμηρος,; born) was a Greek poet who is credited as the author of the Iliad and the Odyssey, two epic poems that are foundational works of ancient Greek literature.

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Hong Kong

Hong Kong is a special administrative region of the People's Republic of China.

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Iliad

The Iliad (Iliás,; " about Ilion (Troy)") is one of two major ancient Greek epic poems attributed to Homer.

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Indian Ocean

The Indian Ocean is the third-largest of the world's five oceanic divisions, covering or approx.

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Jarrow

Jarrow is a town in South Tyneside in the county of Tyne and Wear, England.

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Katana

A is a Japanese sword characterized by a curved, single-edged blade with a circular or squared guard and long grip to accommodate two hands.

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Korvettenkapitän

Korvettenkapitän is the lowest ranking senior officer in a number of Germanic-speaking navies.

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Length between perpendiculars

Length between perpendiculars (often abbreviated as p/p, p.p., pp, LPP, LBP or Length BPP) is the length of a ship along the summer load line from the forward surface of the stem, or main bow perpendicular member, to the after surface of the sternpost, or main stern perpendicular member.

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Maritime call sign

Maritime call signs are call signs assigned as unique identifiers to ships and boats.

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Master mariner

A master mariner is a licensed mariner who holds the highest grade of seafarer qualification; namely, an unlimited master's license.

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Merchant raider

Merchant raiders are armed commerce raiding ships that disguise themselves as non-combatant merchant vessels.

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Motor ship

A motor ship or motor vessel is a ship propelled by an internal combustion engine, usually a diesel engine.

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Official number

Official numbers are ship identifier numbers assigned to merchant ships by their country of registration.

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Pacific War

The Pacific War, sometimes called the Asia–Pacific War or the Pacific Theater, was the theater of World War II that was fought in eastern Asia, the Pacific Ocean, the Indian Ocean, and Oceania.

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Palmers Shipbuilding and Iron Company

Palmers Shipbuilding and Iron Company Limited, often referred to simply as "Palmers", was a British shipbuilding company.

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Penang

Penang (Pulau Pinang) is a Malaysian state located on the northwest coast of Peninsular Malaysia along the Strait of Malacca.

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Port of Colombo

The Port of Colombo කොළඹ වරාය, கொழும்பு துறைமுகம் (known as Port of Kolomtota during the early 14th Century Kotte Kingdom) is the largest and busiest port in Sri Lanka and the Indian Ocean.

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Port of Durban

The Port of Durban, commonly called Durban Harbour, is the largest and busiest shipping terminal in sub-Saharan Africa.

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Port of Kobe

The Port of Kobe is a Japanese maritime port in Kobe, Hyōgo in the Keihanshin area, backgrounded by the Hanshin Industrial Region.

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Port of Liverpool

The Port of Liverpool is the enclosed dock system that runs from Brunswick Dock in Liverpool to Seaforth Dock, Seaforth, on the east side of the River Mersey and the Birkenhead Docks between Birkenhead and Wallasey on the west side of the river.

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Propeller

A propeller (colloquially often called a screw if on a ship or an airscrew if on an aircraft) is a device with a rotating hub and radiating blades that are set at a pitch to form a helical spiral which, when rotated, exerts linear thrust upon a working fluid such as water or air.

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Radio jamming

Radio jamming is the deliberate blocking of or interference with wireless communications.

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Reefer ship

A reefer ship is a refrigerated cargo ship typically used to transport perishable cargo, which require temperature-controlled handling, such as fruits, meat, vegetables, dairy products, and similar items.

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River Tyne

The River Tyne is a river in North East England.

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Robert Brooke-Popham

Air Chief Marshal Sir Henry Robert Moore Brooke-Popham, (18 September 1878 – 20 October 1953) was a senior commander in the Royal Air Force.

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Salvo

A salvo is the simultaneous discharge of artillery or firearms including the firing of guns either to hit a target or to perform a salute.

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Scuttling

A ship is scuttled when its crew deliberately sinks it, typically by opening holes in its hull.

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Shanghai

Shanghai is a direct-administered municipality and the most populous urban area in China.

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Sierra Leone Colony and Protectorate

The Colony and Protectorate of Sierra Leone (informally British Sierra Leone) was the British colonial administration in Sierra Leone from 1808 to 1961, part of the British Empire from the abolitionism era until the decolonisation era.

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Singapore

Singapore, officially the Republic of Singapore, is an island country and city-state in maritime Southeast Asia.

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Sister ship

A sister ship is a ship of the same class or of virtually identical design to another ship.

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SL convoys

SL convoys were a numbered series of North Atlantic trade convoys during the Second World War.

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Stan Hugill

Stanley James Hugill (19 November 1906 – 13 May 1992) was a British folk music performer, artist and sea music historian, known as the "Last Working Shantyman" and described as the "20th century guardian of the tradition".

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Steamship

A steamship, often referred to as a steamer, is a type of steam-powered vessel, typically ocean-faring and seaworthy, that is propelled by one or more steam engines that typically move (turn) propellers or paddlewheels.

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Suez Canal

The Suez Canal (قَنَاةُ ٱلسُّوَيْسِ) is an artificial sea-level waterway in Egypt, connecting the Mediterranean Sea to the Red Sea through the Isthmus of Suez and dividing Africa and Asia (and by extension, the Sinai Peninsula from the rest of Egypt).

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Sumatra

Sumatra is one of the Sunda Islands of western Indonesia.

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The Japan Times

The Japan Times is Japan's largest and oldest English-language daily newspaper.

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Tokyo

Tokyo (東京), officially the Tokyo Metropolis (label), is the capital of Japan and one of the most populous cities in the world, with a population of over 14 million residents as of 2023 and the second-most-populated capital in the world.

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Tonnage

Tonnage is a measure of the capacity of a ship, and is commonly used to assess fees on commercial shipping.

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Trans-Siberian Railway

The Trans-Siberian Railway, historically known as the Great Siberian Route and often shortened to Transsib, is a large railway system that connects European Russia to the Russian Far East.

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Ulrich Mohr

Ulrich Mohr was a German naval officer and the adjutant (first officer) on the Kriegsmarine auxiliary cruiser during the Second World War, where one of his functions was to board captured ships and search for secret papers that might be of use to the German war effort.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SS_Automedon

Also known as Automedon (ship).

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SS Automedon, the Glossary

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Maritime incidents in November 1940

Ships built by Palmers Shipbuilding and Iron Company

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