a merchant ship in convoy is sunk by a torpedo; the crew are rescued and later join another ship; and a young seaman among them is motivated to take a gunnery course.

The forcible repatriation of 2,000 Chinese merchant seamen after World War Two was "one of the most nakedly racist incidents ever taken by the British government", an MP has said. The sailors ...

LONDON — British politician John Prescott, a former merchant seaman who rose to the post of deputy prime minister, has died ...