The prisoners, some 15,500, are varied; from passengers, including children, on merchant vessels, to Canadian and British soldiers and Royal Navy personnel. Foreign seamen are indicated as are African American sailors.

I’m in the progress of compiling and index which along with being quicker to search will allow the compilation of crew lists for captured vessels.

As can be seen from the sample page below the POWs are listed by the first letter of their surname – note: spelling is often very odd.

The pdf files are roughly 50mb in size and should take less than 4mins to download.