[realityking]

I just clicked through to some of the listed ships and it appears they were all flying a British flag in 1982 before being requisitioned.

It’s not at all clear to me a government would have that power about a foreign flagged vessel, even if the shipping line owning it might be British.

[RobotToaster]

Maybe not legally, but most of the countries used as a flag of convenience are tiny, what could the Marshall islands do about it?