故事
This aircraft carrier was built in 1942 by Seattle-Tacoma Shipbuilding Corp..
历史记录
This vessel was laid down as the M.V. Edisto. While building this vessel was re-designed and converted to an aircraft carrier. This vessel embarked 852 RN Squadron of the Fleet Air Arm (Avengers) at San Francisco CA USA. This vessel sailed to New York via the Panama Canal. This vessel took a deck cargo of Mustang aircraft for the RAF. This vessel joined the Home Fleet at Scapa Flow. This vessel took part in operations against the German battleship Tirpitz off the coast of Norway. On August 22, 1944 this vessel was torpedoed by the German submarine U-354 in the Barents Sea. This vessel was towed to the Firth of Forth.
In 1947 this vessel was taken to Hendrik Ido Ambacht and stripped of the flight deck.
船东与船长
She was commissioned as H.M.S. Nabob, a Canadian-manned Royal Naval aircraft carrier in Royal Canadian Navy service 1943-1944.
She was sold in 1947 to be broken up in Holland but was resold and rebuilt in 1952 as the German-registered M.V. Nabob (poland Line).
She was owned by Panamanian owners in 1967 and renamed as Glory.
In 1978 she was sold for breaking up in Taiwan, ROC.
船长
Captain Horatio Nelson Lay RCN
武装
Two 5" 38 calibre dual purpose guns, eight 40mm Bofors dual AA, twenty 20mm Oerlikon AA. Around 18-24 aircraft, including: 852 Squadron's Grumman Avenger Mk.I's (from the RN); 852 Squadron's General Motors Wildcat Mk.V's (from the RN)
改建
In 1943 she was converted to RN standards at Burrard Drydock, Vancouver BC.
参考文献
- Government of Canada The Canadian Navy List Ottawa ON
- Freeman, David J. (2000)
- J.J. Colledge and Ben Warlow (2010) Ships of the Royal Navy. Casemate Oxford UK
