<Tr> <Td> <Ul> <Li> </Li> <Li> </Li> <Li> </Li> </Ul> </Td> </Tr> <Ul> <Li> </Li> <Li> </Li> <Li> </Li> </Ul> <P> HMT Empire Windrush, originally MV Monte Rosa, was a passenger liner and cruise ship launched in Germany in 1930 . She was operated as a German cruise ship under the name Monte Rosa in the 1930s, and as a German navy troopship during World War II . At the end of the war, she was acquired by the United Kingdom Government as a prize of war and renamed the Empire Windrush . In British service, she continued to be used mainly as a troopship until March 1954, when the vessel caught fire and sank in the Mediterranean Sea with the loss of four crew . </P> <P> Empire Windrush is best remembered today for bringing one of the first large groups of post-war West Indian immigrants to the United Kingdom, carrying 1027 passengers and two stowaways on a voyage from Jamaica to London in 1948 . Of these, 802 passengers gave their last country of residence as somewhere in the Caribbean of whom 693 intended to settle in the United Kingdom . British Caribbean people who came to the United Kingdom in the period after World War II are sometimes referred to as the Windrush generation . </P>

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