The authors of this website served as crewmen on merchant ships owned by the Burns Philp Shipping Company. For close to ten years, we have compiled narratives and photographs from our own, and other veterans’ experiences of the war specifically for this website.
About the originators of this website
Ex Chief Engineer of Burns Philp & Co. Ltd. Frank Snell passed away at the Annual Pilgrimage to the Canberra Merchant Navy War Memorial, on Friday the 12th of October 2001. Vale to the Chief.
Ex Deck Officer of Burns Philp & Co. Ltd. and Master in Adelaide Steamship Co. Ltd. Jack Knight passed away on Sunday 24 November 2002, at Sydney. Vale to Cracker.
“I meet my pilot face to face, when I have crossed the bar”
(Below, left to right) Frank “The Chief” Snell, Ron “Steve” Wylie, & Jack “Cracker” Knight:
External Website Links
American Merchant Marine at War
http://www.usmm.org/index.html
Canadian Merchant Navy at War
http://members.tripod.com/~merchantships/index.html
Norwegian Merchant Fleet
http://www.warsailors.com/freefleet/index.html
The Australian War Memorial
http://www.awm.gov.au/
US Armed Guard Pacific
http://www.armed-guard.com/ag78.html
Eric Bissmire R/O World War 2
http://www.onthenet.com.au/~biss/
Dutch and Foreign Merchant Navy crew sailing under Dutch flag during WW 2
http://home.wanadoo.nl/hmeurs/
The Battle For Australia
http://www.battleforaustralia.org.au/
Vindicatrix NSW & ACT
http://www.vindicatrix-originalnswact.org/pages/about-us-last-posting-25092005.php
Merchant Navy Officers
http://www.merchantnavyofficers.com
The Merchant Navy Association
http://www.mna.org.uk/