What does AMC stand for?

Armed Merchant Cruiser

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Military and Government

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Samples in periodicals archive:

Lemp had convinced himself she was in fact an armed merchant cruiser.

Joan Hecht; LETTERS to the EDITOR: OBITUARY

Mr Powell joined an armed merchant cruiser, HMS Pretoria Castle, and later HMS Shropshire.

James Powell's story: On missions for Ian Fleming behind enemy lines

The 10,550-ton armed merchant cruiser HMS Cheshire - formerly a Bibby Line passenger ship - is pictured in dry dock at Liverpool after being torpedoed west of Ireland by the U137 submarine in October 1940.

Vital war work; Maritime Tales by Stephen Guy of Merseyside Maritime ...

Operations in the north were left to a motley collection of armed merchant cruisers, trawlers and drifters.

eLa Guerra Marina 1936-39: the Spanish Civil War at sea

Their first strike, at Colombo on April 5, accomplished relatively little--the armed merchant cruiser Hector and the destroyer Tenedos were sunk in the harbor, while a submarine depot vessel, Lucia, and the mer chant ship Benledi were damaged.

A month before the Battle of the Coral Sea, a British ship became the ...

Serving as an armed merchant cruiser during the First World War, she was paid off for the last time in 1919 and broken up in 1922.

Once fit for royalty - now highest bid; Tyneside artist's works go ...

Cunard also had to agree that the ships go on the naval reserve list to serve as armed merchant cruisers if necessary.

Lucania luxury; Maritime Tales by Stephen Guy of Merseyside Maritime ...

Most famously, the White Star Line despatched SS Teutonic, one of the world's most advanced luxury liners, in her alternative guise as an armed merchant cruiser, for the 1897 review.

Tug under Royal review; The tradition of sending Merseyside ship to ...