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Merchant ship jervis bay. The Swedish ship Stureholm returned to the scene and rescued 65 of Jervis Bays survivors. Jervis Bay - The true story of a heroic ship that inspired Alistair MacLeans novel HMS. While in command of HMS Jervis Bay in November 1940 she was proceeding from the United States to Europe as the sole escort of a convoy of 31 merchant ships.

HMAS Jervis Bay was laid down at the Newcastle State Dockyard as the merchant ship Australian Trader on 27 September 1967. The convoy Commodore was Rear Admiral H. HMS Jervis Bay had been a former Australian passenger liner.

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. Convoy HX-84 cleared Halifax late Oct. HMS Jervis Bay escorted convoys from Bermuda to Halifax Nova Scotia Canada.

In November 1940 the Jervis Bay was the sole escort for thirty-seven freighters moving from Halifax to Britain. 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. She was crewed by a mixture of Royal Navy Royal Naval Reserve and Merchant Navy 254 seamen and Captain E.

Under the command of Captain Edward Steven Fogarty Fegan. She was launched in 1922 and sunk on 5 November 1940 by the German pocket battleship Admiral Scheer. When war broke out the Royal Navy converted the 14000-ton ship to an armed merchant cruiser fitted with seven antiquated six-inch guns.

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. She was launched on. Maltby RN in the British merchant ship Cornish City.