Merchant Navy Day 2023 will be the first commemorated under the anticipated new Master of the Merchant Navy and Fishing Fleets – King Charles III – and guests have been invited from across the UK to remember hardworking seafarers at a commemorative service and reunion in London.

Kevin McClory: Irishman who spent 14 days in a lifeboat and later went on to write the James Bond movies Never Say Never Again and Thunderball. Battle Atlas of the Falklands War 1982 BRITISH AND ARGENTINE UNITS TAKING PART (Parts 7-16) Part 12. MERCHANT NAVY SHIPS". naval-history.net . Retrieved 6 July 2023. John Masefield: served in Merchant Navy in 1890s: Cadet at HMS Conway 1891-1894. later Poet Laureate.

So what is the Australian red ensign?

Distinctive marks [ edit ] The flag of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, flown by all commissioned ships of the NOAA fleet as a "distinctive mark."

The flag of the city of Taunton in Bristol County, Massachusetts is based on the pre-1801 Red Ensign. This was a local variant of the Flag of New England. See George Rex Flag.See also: Great Canadian flag debate, Flag of Manitoba, and Flag of Ontario Canadian flag (1868–1921) Canadian flag (1921–1957) Final Canadian Red Ensign (1957–1965)