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HMS Manxman (M70) was an Abdiel-class minelayer of the Royal Navy. ... In 1953, she appeared in the film Sailor of the King as the German cruiser Essen. [4]
The German raider Essen was portrayed by the minelayer HMS Manxman. The raider Essen is portrayed by HMS Manxman, a fast minelaying cruiser, fitted for the film with large mock-up gun turrets over her 4" guns. The torpedo damage which forces her delay at Resolution Island is simply painted on the side of her port bow.
Because he is physically slight, he is made a ship-keeper (a sailor who stays aboard the ship while its whaleboats go out). Ishmael contrasts him with the "dull and torpid in his intellects" — and paler and much older — steward Dough-Boy, describing Pip as "over tender-hearted" but "at bottom very bright, with that pleasant, genial, jolly ...
HMS Manxman (1916) was a ferry launched in 1903 and requisitioned by the Royal Navy in 1915 for conversion to a sea plane carrier. Returned to civilian service in 1920, the ship was requisitioned as a radar training vessel, HMS Caduceus , during World War II and scrapped in 1945.
Amesbury, Cambridge, and Stratford, (from the 1953 Michael Rennie film Single-Handed or Sailor of the King, based on the novel Brown on Resolution by C. S. Forester; portrayed by Dido-class cruiser: HMS Cleopatra, Abdiel-class minelayer HMS Manxman, and Town-class cruiser HMS Glasgow)
Several ships have been named Manxman after an inhabitant of the Isle of Man. SS Manxman (1870) , a passenger steamer of Barrow Steam Navigation Company , built as Antrim [ 1 ] SS Manxman (1888) , a livestock carrier, built as White Star Line's Cufic
TSS Manxman was a turbine steamship launched in 1904 for the Midland Railway and operated between Heysham and Douglas, Isle of Man. In 1916, she was commissioned by the Royal Navy as HMS Manxman and saw action as a seaplane carrier during the First World War , after which she was acquired by the Isle of Man Steam Packet Company .
In the film Manxman is briefly depicted by a Dido-class cruiser – clearly identifiable from her 5.25-inch gun turrets which were unique to this cruiser class. (HMS Manxman herself was coincidentally used in another 1953 film which was also shot in Malta. This was Sailor of the King, in which she depicted the fictional German raider Essen.