As an armed merchant cruiser she was fitted with seven 6 guns.

Merchant ship jervis bay. 38 ships with only two destroyers which would turn back shortly and the armed merchant cruiser Jervis Bay for protectionsteamed at an agonizingly slow eight knots for faraway Liverpool. Sighting a powerful German man-of-war he at once drew clear of the convoy made straight for the Enemy and brought his ship between the Raider and her prey so that they might scatter and escape. After conversion to an armed merchant cruiser HMS Jervis Bay was escorting Convoy HGX84 on November 5 1940 when the German pocket battleship Admiral Scheer came into view.

The convoy Commodore was Rear Admiral H. 39 rows Convoy HX 84 was the 84th of the numbered series of Allied North Atlantic HX convoys of. Conversion was completed on 15 October 1939.

The following day the convoy was joined by nine ships from Nova Scotia and Bermuda and the 38 merchantmen settled into formationnine columns of four ranks eachto begin the crossing. Jervis Bay was the first warship to tie up in the historic Hamilton Harbour. Jervis Bay - The true story of a heroic ship that inspired Alistair MacLeans novel HMS.

HMS Jervis Bay. On 25 August 1939 the passenger ship Jervis Bay of the Aberdeen Commonwealth Line Ltd London was requisitioned by the Admiralty and converted to an armed merchant cruiser. The Steam Ship Jervis Bay was requisitioned by the Admiralty for conversion into an Armed Cruiser.

The captain of Jervis Bay did his duty and defended the convoy to the last. Convoy HX-84 cleared Halifax late Oct. She was crewed by a mixture of Royal Navy Royal Naval Reserve and Merchant Navy 254 seamen and Captain E.

The ship had been strengthened during her construction to carry eight six-inch guns. Following the outbreak of the Second World War in 1939 Jervis Bay was converted to an Armed Merchant Cruiser AMC at St Johns Canada and used for patrol and convoy escort duties by the Royal Navy. The ship was originally the Aberdeen Commonwealth Line steamer Jervis Bay named after the Australian bay the line named all of its ships after bays.