Defensively equipped merchant ship

The US passenger steamer SS Kroonland in November 1917, showing camouflage paint and stern-mounted gun.

BL 4 inch Mk VII low-angle gun on a DEMS in 1943, an obsolete WWI gun typical of WWII DEMS armament

Defensively equipped merchant ship (DEMS) was an Admiralty Trade Division program established in June, 1939, to arm 5,500 British merchant ships with an adequate defence against enemy submarines and aircraft. The acronym DEMS was used to describe the ships carrying the guns, the guns aboard the ships, the military personnel manning the guns, and the shore establishment supporting the system.

单词	Defensively Equipped Merchant Ship
释义	Defensively Equipped Merchant Ship 英语百科 Defensively equipped merchant ship Defensively equipped merchant ship (DEMS) was an Admiralty Trade Division program established in June, 1939, to arm 5,500 British merchant ships with an adequate defence against enemy submarines and aircraft. The acronym DEMS was used to describe the ships carrying the guns, the guns aboard the ships, the military personnel manning the guns, and the shore establishment supporting the system.
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Defensively Equipped Merchant Ship

Defensively equipped merchant ship