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HMS Nabob was torpedoed by German submarine
U-354 in the Barents Sea on August 22, 1944. This resulted in a 32-square
foot hole aft, below the waterline. Though she made Scapa Flow under her own power
on the 27th, she was deemed to be too badly damaged and decommissioned on 10 October. |
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Nabob, ex-HMS Nabob, leaving Bremen, Germany,
on a foggy March 1965 day.
Note (by Gerhard Mueller-Debus): The damaged escort carrier HMS Nabob (ex-Edisto)
was not scrapped after all, but the flight deck was stripped off and after this the vessel was sold
to German buyers (Norddeutscher Lloyd, Bremen), towed from the U.K. to Bremen, re-engined with British-built
steam turbines and converted into a freighter, retaining, however, the name Nabob.
Under this name the vessel operated very successfully for another 16 years, until she was sold to
Hong Kong - Chinese owners in 1967, being renamed the Glory. The vessel was finally
scrapped in Taiwan in 1976, where the remarkable career of this gallant ship finally came to an end. |
Photo by Gerhard Mueller-Debus |
