SS Belgian Captain information

War Transport (MoWT). In 1943 she was passed to the Belgian Government and renamed Belgian Captain. Postwar, she was sold into merchant service and renamed...

(Wehrmacht) and later of the Waffen-SS recruited among French-speaking collaborationists in German-occupied Belgium during World War II. It was formed...

SS Belgian Prince was a British cargo steamship that was launched in 1900 as Mohawk. She was renamed Hungarian Prince when she changed owners in 1912,...

U-boat in 1915. When his ship, the SS Brussels, was captured by the Germans off occupied Belgium in 1916, Captain Fryatt was court-martialled by German...

Schutzstaffel (SS) grew from eight members to over a quarter of a million Waffen-SS and over a million Allgemeine-SS members. Other members included the SS-Totenkopfverbände...

The SS Belgian was a 5,287-ton steamship which was built in 1919, sold in 1934 becoming Amelia Lauro, seized in 1940 and renamed Empire Activity and wrecked...

RAC 1st Belgian Infantry Brigade, Colonel Jean-Baptiste Piron 1st Belgian Independent Motorised Fighting Group, Major Wintergroen 2nd Belgian Independent...

The Belgian Armed Forces (Dutch: Defensie; French: La Défense) is the national military of Belgium. The King of the Belgians is the commander-in-chief...

SS Norge (pronounced [ˈnɔ̂rɡə] ) was a transatlantic ocean liner that was launched in 1881 in Scotland, and lost in 1904 off Rockall with great loss of...

revenge for the SS having murdered her father and husband. The pastor responds that assassinating Himmler is not their mission. The SS pinpoints the pastor’s...

instructor SS Major Heinrich Hersche. In August 1943 a first cohort of 800 recruits arrived for training. Their instructors were Dutch and Flemish Belgian, and...

Governor) in 1920. In 1917 the Belgian Relief Commission chartered Imo to take humanitarian supplies to German-occupied Belgium. On 6 December 1917 she was...

1830 Belgian Revolution, establishing the modern Belgian state, officially recognized at the London Conference of 1830. The first King of Belgium, Leopold...

SS Abukir was a British coastal steamship that was launched in 1920 as SS Island Queen and renamed in 1934 as SS Kyle Queen. In 1935 she was renamed Abukir...

Captain James Cook FRS (7 November [O.S. 27 October] 1728 – 14 February 1779) was a British explorer, cartographer and naval officer famous for his three...

Joachim Peiper (30 January 1915 – 14 July 1976) was a German Schutzstaffel (SS) officer and war criminal convicted for the Malmedy massacre of U.S. Army...

SS Prinses Astrid was a Belgian cross-Channel ferry struck a naval mine 3 nautical miles (5.6 km) off the coast of Dunkirk, France and sank with the loss...

battle for the Battle of Belgium, a World War II battle between German and Allied forces in Belgium on 10–28 May 1940. The Belgian Air Service (Aéronautique...

command in 1908. Two years after that he was appointed captain of the Canadian Pacific Line's SS Montrose, and within months had become famous following...

SS Cap Arcona, named after Cape Arkona on the island of Rügen, was a large German ocean liner, later a ship of the Kriegsmarine, and finally a prison ship...

(19 November 1911 – 25 December 1991) was a Hauptsturmführer (Captain) in the German Nazi SS, Judenreferent in Greece (1944) and Lagerkommandant of Theresienstadt...

"replica-in-a-bottle" of the first SS Tipton as a gift for Captain Lansferd. Antarctica in the season three episode "Frozen" Belgium in the season three episode...

had a bag of small Belgian flags made by Belgian refugee schoolchildren in London. After the attack, he scattered the small Belgian flags across Brussels...