Empire ship

An Empire ship was one a group of merchant ships prefixed with the name "Empire" in the service of the British Government during and after the Second World War. Most were used by the Ministry of War Transport (MoWT), which owned them, and contract operated by various shipping lines of the U.K. Merchant Navy.

The ships came from two main sources: new construction, and capture and seizure. New Empires were built for the MoWT or obtained from the United States to increase Britain's shipping capacity and offset losses to German U-boats in the tonnage war their wolfpacks were waging against the nation's sea transport abroad the globe. Others were captured or seized from enemy powers.

New Empire ship construction represented an enormous undertaking that included classes of freighters, tankers, aircraft carriers, fast cargo liners, tank landing ships, and at least seven others. Total production numbered in the hundreds.

Empire ships were supplements to Britain's normal peacetime merchant fleet, swelling its wartime numbers to 12,000, then the largest merchant ship fleet in the world. Approximately 4,000 were lost between 1939 and 1945, a considerable number being sunk during the Battle of the Atlantic.

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I'mma Be Here

by: Choppa

Verse1:
I know ya'll probably didn't expect for me to come like this grab tha mic catch tha trach and start to run like this there wasn't to many boys local that was droppin like this but now i gotcha heads bobbin and ya jockin my shit so now u freeze up thankin that choppa was bout to ease up please bruh where u get caught is where i leave ya turn my shit up loud so everybody can hear me and these playa hatin bitch niggas a probably wanna kill me now this some real shit i get off into some I'll shit make a mil quick steven segal hard to kill shit now chill bitch i told you this some I'll shit and u might just get killed quick now feel this hi my name is choppa i introduce myself and if ya mad from what im sayin that means tha truth was felt i prove my belt how many murdas my block is long you don't need to know our numbers 'cause our stocks is strong
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I got my snicker imma be here nigga stuck wit me niggas know im numba one they can fuck wit me now it's next to hit tha world nothin else for me platinum plaques in tha stack on tha shelf for me
Verse2:
Now these bustas been puttin trash out it's time for choppa to flip tha mask and jag go brag and take his ass out rookie cookie ass niggas is bout to be crumb fuckin round wit choppa what tha fuck you niggas is dumb i told u niggas now i bout to show u niggas blow u niggas get tha gar and roll u niggas im from tha wild westbiggady where thangs get off tha higgady and i got tha game from my dog Ralf Biggady you niggas that aint bout it and that's why u still there i fuck wit cats that pop caps and put u in a wheel chair and im walkin tha streets ya fake suckas a try im from marrero so im packin that iron
[chorus:repeat 2x]
Verse3:
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