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HMS JERVIS BAY
Armed Merchant Cruiser
HMS JERVIS BAY Armed Merchant Cruiser
This page is not meant to be a comprehensive history of HMS JERVIS BAY, but a record of sailors of the ROYAL CANADIAN NAVY who served in her, photos they took and stories they may have shared with their families.
HMS Jervis Bay (F40) Armed Merchant Cruiser, built by Vickers Ltd. (Barrow-in-Furness, U.K.). Commissioned Oct. 15, 1939.Lost Nov. 05, 1940 at position 53.41N, 32.17W.On November 05, 1940, H.M.S. Jervis Bay (A/Capt. Edward Stephen Fogarty Fegen, R.N.) was shelled and sunk in position 52º41'N, 32º17'W by the German pocket-battleship Admiral Scheer while engaging the superior enemy ship in a heroic, if hopeless, fight to give the 37 merchants in the convoy HX-84 a chance to escape, because the armed merchant cruiser was the sole escort. Her sacrifice allowed many ships of the convoy to scatter and escape in the night. Capt. E.S.F. Fegen (R.N.) was posthumously awarded the Victoria Cross, 190 men were lost, while 65 survivors were picked up by the Swedish merchant Stureholm that had turned back during the night to search for survivors.
They shall not be forgotten
(s) - Survived the sinking of HMS JERVIS BAY
The article below was originally published in MACLEAN'S magazine - Dec 1959 Source: archive.macleans.ca
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In memory of those who made the ultimate sacrifice
Lest We Forget
