Derek Law's Bibliography

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MITCHELL, W. H., & SAWYER, L. A. Empire Ships of World War II. viii, 120p., illus., index. Liverpool: Journal of Shipping and Commerce Telegraph, 1965. ISBN: 0715349147.

Ships requisitioned by or built for the Ministry of Shipping were named with the prefix “Empire”. This lists and classifies all such ships - over 1,300 of them - and gives a brief history of each to 1964. A second edition was published in 1990, ISBN: 1850442754.