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 NS0304104 |
132k | "The Canadian aircraft carrier HMCS Nabob ran aground five miles east of Point Roberts, Washington in March 1944 at a speed of 18 knots. Salvage master Loring Hyde was in charge of refloating the vessel. The job was accomplished, the vessel receiving only minor damage, and was returned to service shortly afterward." |
Gerhard Mueller-Debus | |
 NS0304101 |
55k | 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. |
IWM | |
 NS0304103 |
158k | Ex-HMS Nabob (D77), ex-Edisto, was sold to Dutch shipbreakers. Here, she is seen arriving in the port of Rotterdam, April 1947, on her way upriver to the shipbreakers. However, she was not scrapped, but resold and towed to Germany for rebuilding and conversion to a cargo ship by A.G. Weser (see NS0304102 for further details). Note that, contrary to what some sources state, she had not been stripped of her flight deck prior to being delivered to the Dutch breakers. |
Wim Grund, Amsterdam | |
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 NS0304105 |
289k | Ex-Edisto, ex-HMS Nabob, being converted to a merchant ship at AG Weser Shipyards in Bremen, Germany, October 1951–June 1952. This photo is dated October 1951. AG Weser Shipyards archive photo. |
Gerhard Mueller-Debus | |
 NS0304106 |
497k | Ex-Edisto, ex-HMS Nabob, being converted to a merchant ship at AG Weser Shipyards in Bremen, Germany, October 1951–June 1952. This photo is dated January 1952. AG Weser Shipyards archive photo. |
Gerhard Mueller‑Debus | |
 NS0304107 |
201k | Ex-Edisto, ex-HMS Nabob, being converted to a merchant ship at AG Weser Shipyards in Bremen, Germany, October 1951–June 1952. This photo is dated June 1952. AG Weser Shipyards archive photo. |
Gerhard Mueller-Debus | |
 NS0304108 |
115k | Newspaper picture, dating from circa 1954, showing Nabob, ex-HMS Nabob, ex-Edisto. Location is probably the Weser River, Germany, but not definitely confirmed. |
Gerhard Mueller-Debus | |
 NS0304102 |
112k | 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 | |
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