The 80th anniversary of the sinking of HMS Jervis Bay on 05 November 1940, will be marked by members of the Jervis Bay Memorial Branch #53, Royal Canadian Legion. A small ceremony is held before the monument every Remembrance Day (following the larger parade in front of the Cenotaph commemorating all of the territory's dead of the two world wars) in which personnel from the Royal Navy, the Royal Naval Association,[9] and the Sea Cadet Corps take part.[10][11][12]. It soon became plain that the ship was German - one of the pocket battleships. The citation for his award reads: There is a monument to Jervis Bay at Albouy's Point, in Hamilton, Bermuda, from where Jervis Bay had departed on her final mission. In St. John's, plans were quickly put in place to welcome home the local heroes on Nov.  21, 1940. The ship was crewed extensively from Caithness, and Wick in particular. "It was hell cut loose...I imagine it was then that Capt. "Our captain knew just what we were going to get, but it didn't matter. The Governor of Newfoundland, Sir Humphrey Walwyn, officially greeted the two survivors, commended them, and called for three cheers in their honour. Beaverford fled along with other ships, but was sunk during the night. Captain Fogarty Fegen VC RN (1891-1940) She was launched in 1922 and sunk on 5 November 1940 by the German pocket battleship Admiral Scheer. She was manned by a crew mostly Royal Naval Reserve and Mercantile Marine. One of the merchant ships in the convoy — the Swedish freighter Stureholm — risked returning to the scene several hours later to pick up any survivors. Bunting draped buildings and flags flew atop poles. Learn how and when to remove this template message, Relatives of war vets invited to march tomorrow, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UZF1HrWKi68, HMSJervisBay.com - Official Website of the HMS Jervis Bay Association, San Demetrio London at the Internet Movie Database, HMS "Jervis Bay" Armed Merchant Cruiser. Thousands lined the streets for the motorcade that followed. H.M.S. Actually, we couldn't see much of it by then because I'd been hit myself." 5 th November 1940. HMS Jervis Bay was a British liner later converted into an armed merchant cruiser, pennant F40. Sabre was under repair to 6 May 1940. Click on photograph for larger image. Nonetheless, he stayed in command. The captain of the Jervis Bay, Edward S.F. The main room of the Merchant Navy Hotel (closed, 2002) was known as the "Jervis Bay Room", and included a display detailing the action. He was so near...he winked at me." [5] Guy Byam was one of the survivors of the sinking; he was later killed while covering an air raid over Germany for the BBC.[6]. Share this Share on twitter Share on facebook. 5 th November 1940. [Click here to hear a CBC Radio special from Nov. 13, 1940.]. As stated earlier HMS Juno sailed later (on the 19th) after repairs had been made. He was hit in the hip by shrapnel. [Click here to see the citation.]. In Halifax, HMS Jervis Bay was tasked to escort Convoy HX84 of 38 ships to England. These ships were disposed in columns of four with the columns abeam of each other. Waterline Hull. About the HMS Jervis Bay As the autumn sun lowered towards the Atlantic Ocean horizon on November 5, 1940, the Royal Navy ship, HMS Jervis Bay, spotted an approaching vessel only 12 miles away. On November 5 th, 1940, the German pocket battleship Admiral Scheer attacked Convoy HX84 in the Atlantic Ocean. Four of her sons made the supreme sacrifice. [13], A merchant ship, Jervis Bay, is in the Tony Palmer 1969 documentary on Jack Bruce: "Rope Ladder To The Moon" at 11m 23s; the ship Jervis Bay figures prominently as the camera pans right. Scale: 1/700. The "Jervis Bay" steamed out ahead and turned to port. Taylor remained in Halifax for several more weeks, recuperating from his injuries. Fegen was posthumously awarded the Victoria Cross "for valour in challenging hopeless odds and giving his life to save the many ships it was his duty to protect." Show more. She was heavily straddled and hit and took fire. This … The ship was later honoured by the Sea Cadets and Marine Cadets Detachment in Brock Barracks in Reading, who adopted TS Jervis Bay (Training Ship) as the name of the unit. Pages: Page 1 Page 2. She was taken up at the beginning of the war and armed with eight 6-inch guns, of which four could be fired on one broadside. There was also a monument in London. When war broke out, the Royal Navy converted the 14,000-ton ship to an armed merchant cruiser, fitted with seven antiquated six-inch guns. She was waiting on the side of the road as his open car slowly approached Government House. He managed to swim to a life raft where he, along with number of others, drifted for more than 10 hours. There is a monument to Captain Fegen and the crew of Jervis Bay at Ross Memorial Park in Saint John, New Brunswick, Canada. B. HMS "Jervis Bay" Armed Merchant Cruiser.Convoy HX.84. It was taken … Recollections of the SS Jervis Bay – a Path to the Sea. The ship is featured as a model in Scarborough's "Naval Warfare" holiday show, which takes place in the summer at Peasholm Park; in the show the ship fights off an enemy battleship and submarine. She was launched in 1922, and sunk on 5 November 1940 by the German heavy cruiser Admiral Scheer. Captain Edward Stephen Fogarty Fegen, and HMS Jervis Bay THE SAGA OF THE JERVIS BAY 1940 In memory of HMS Jervis Bay R. David Burns On the fifth of November and convoy near forty Slow moving and scattered, no escorts to call, a liner, a steamer, Jervis Bay, you … Thirty-two ships in the convoy eventually made it safely back to port. "I just put my foot up on the running board, and just to touch him, to touch his hand, and he mine...and I hopped back again," Murphy, now 85, recalled in an interview earlier this week. Australian Trader was commissioned into the RAN as HMAS Jervis Bay at Garden Island, Sydney, under the command of Commander Joe Morrice on 25 August 1977, the 38th anniversary of the commissioning of HMS Jervis Bay.Her primary role was to train junior officers in seamanship and navigation. Media in category "HMS Jervis Bay" The following 6 files are in this category, out of 6 total. The encounter between Jervis Bay and Admiral Scheer is also narrated in a short story in Alistair MacLean's book "The Lonely Sea". [Click here to hear Walwyn's address at Government House.]. HMS Jervis Bay.jpg. EDWARD FEGEN VC AND THE LOSS OF HMS JERVIS BAY. Casualties . He ordered the convoy to scatter, and dropped smoke canisters, which created a smokescreen to hide the freighters. Object details Category Photographs Related period 1945-1989 (production), 1945-1989 (content) Creator Royal Navy official photographer ... H.M.S. Severely disabled, the Jervis Bay continued to fire back, her shells falling short of the target. The last of the three HMS Jervis Bay survivors from this province, Arthur Taylor, died in 2010. After her acquisition and commissioning, Jervis Bay was initially assigned to the South Atlantic station before becoming a convoy escort in May 1940, based at the Royal Naval Dockyard in Bermuda. On 23 December HMS Jaguar was detached around 0400/23 to … Captain Fegen and many of the crew went down with the ship. HMS Jervis Bay, shown in 1940 at Dakar, Senegal, was a converted passenger liner with obsolescent armament, but she had an indomitable captain and crew.. Admiral Scheer was commanded by Captain Theodor Krancke who, like Fegen, had served in World War I and reamined in the German navy after that conflict. Commonwealth Government Line Bay Ships ship deck plan.jpg. The ship was launched as the Aberdeen & Commonwealth Line steamer Jervis Bay, named after the Australian bay of that name (the line named all its ships after bays). [Click here to hear Lewis Tilley's account.]. Fegen was hit. She was requisitioned by the Royal Navy in August 1939 at the outbreak of the Second World War, and armed with seven 1898-vintage 6 in (150 mm) guns and two 3 in (76 mm) guns of 1894 design. HMS "Jervis Bay" Armed Merchant Cruiser.Convoy HX.84. A Young Boy’s Options In 1922 I was 15 years of age and wondering what life held for me in the way of a career. HMS Jervis Bay był początkowo australijskim oraz brytyjskim statkiem towarowo-pasażerskim, a później krążownikiem pomocniczym (ang. Then, he set course toward the German raider to draw its fire. Commissioned at RNAS Jervis Bay, New South Wales. Flying operations returned to RNAS Nowra on April 28th 1945 and the station was left to MONAB V, three days later the airfield was commissioned as RNAS Jervis Bay, HMS NABSWICK on The ship was launched as the Commonwealth Line steamer Jervis Bay, named after the Australian bay of that name (the line named all its passenger liners after bays). On November 5 th, 1940, south of Greenland, the convoy encountered the German pocket battleship, Admiral Sheer, armed with 11 inch guns. On November 5th towards evening she was steaming in the centre of the front line of a big convoy of nearly forty ships. He had joined the Royal Navy a month after the declaration of war, and as an ordinary seaman had already seen action in the evacuation of British forces at the Battle of Dunkirk. This photograph of HMS Jervis Bay was taken by Peter Tingey, an apprentice aboard the Canonesa. HMS Jervis Bay was a British liner later converted into an armed merchant cruiser, pennant F40. This Movietone newsreel captures some of the emotion of the arrival in Halifax. The source code for the WIKI 2 extension is being checked by specialists of the Mozilla Foundation, Google, and Apple. The "Jervis Bay" proceeded on her course and was soon enveloped in the fire of six 11-inch guns. On 28 th Oct 1940 the convoy HX.84 (84 th convoy from Halifax to the UK) left Halifax, Nova Scotia with 38 merchant ships and the HMS Jervis Bay an Armed Merchant Cruiser (AMC), which was formed into nine columns. The "Jervis Bay" was serving at the time under my command on this station and she was well-known in this City, where her officers and ship's company had many friends....The "Jervis Bay" was a medium-sized liner of 16 knots, used on the Australian trade. It was hopeless, for the most part, but the escort did manage to land one lucky shot on Scheer that destroyed the German ship’s radar crystal and reduced its spotting capability enormously. When war broke out, the Royal Navy converted the 14,000-ton ship to an armed merchant cruiser, fitted with … The Squires and Taylor families, along with Tilley's wife, two-month-old daughter, parents, and siblings were there for the homecoming. Atlantic convoys and Nazi raiders the deadly voyage of HMS Jervis Bay. According to some sources, further time was bought by the freighter SS Beaverford which engaged Admiral Scheer for over four hours. Box 500 Station A Toronto, ON Canada, M5W 1E6. The ship was launched as the Commonwealth Line steamer Jervis Bay, named after the Australian bay of that name (the line named all its passenger liners after bays). armed merchant cruiser) z okresu międzywojennego oraz II wojny światowej. Several survived to come home. Late that afternoon, the 15,000-ton German pocket battleship Admiral Scheer located the convoy, and attacked. On Nov. 5, 1940, the Jervis Bay was the sole escort for Convoy HX84. [2] Although the German's shells ravaged Jervis Bay, and Fegen was wounded and many crew killed, Fegen and the surviving crew fought on until their ship was sunk. Seven 6-inch guns, dating from the turn of the century, were distributed around her decks. Jervis Bay turned toward the Admiral Scheer and diverted her fire while the 38 ship convoy HX84 which included the cargo liner Rangitiki escaped. Schoolchildren were given a half-day holiday. During the Second World War, convoys formed at Bermuda and coded BHX merged at sea with those formed at Halifax, which were coded HX, before crossing the Atlantic as it was easier to protect one large convoy than two smaller. It can be read in The Faber Book of War Poetry. The short service will be held at the HMS Jervis Bay Memorial in the Legion’s park, the Jervis Bay … This item is a resin and photoetch ship model kit. Wodowanie jednostki miało miejsce w styczniu 1922 r., a wejście do służby cywilnej – we wrześniu tego samego roku. About three hours after the battle had begun, the Jervis Bay slipped beneath the waves. Tilley was a gunner on the Jervis Bay. Suddenly, the port wing ship sighted smoke on the port bow, and very soon afterwards the foretop of a man-of-war.... Captain Fegen instructed the Commandant of the convoy, if this proved to be an enemy ship, to turn his convoy to starboard and to scatter, while he went out to port to engage the enemy. When the convoy encountered the German warship Admiral Scheer about 755 nautical miles (1,398 km) south-southwest of Reykjavík, the captain of Jervis Bay, Edward Fegen, ordered the convoy to scatter, and set his own ship on a course towards the German warship to draw its fire. On 5 November 1940, she was steaming in the centre of convoy HX.84, homeward-bound from Halifax, when the merchantmen were … The motorcade wound its way through downtown St. John's to Government House. Manufacturer: AJM Models. Biography: Edward Fegen VC . Delivery will normally take 3-4 weeks. HMS Jervis Bay Plaque.jpg. It is also the subject of issue 47 of Hitman and in volume 6 of the collection, which the protagonists take as an example of how to live. Bernard Edwards, ‘ ’Convoy Will Scatter: The Full Story of Jervis Bay and Convoy HX84’ ‘ Pen and Sword Maritime, Barnsley UK (2013), p. 91. Just better. George Squires died in 1961. HMS Jervis Bay had been a former Australian passenger liner. The attack lasted about 24 minutes. Casualties in the Jervis Bay, the armed merchant cruiser which in November 1940 saved 32 convoy ships by engaging a powerful German warship for an hour, numbered 198. Queensland at that time was. HMS Jervis Bay. The ship became a blazing wreck and after an hour's action went to the bottom. [4], Sixty-eight survivors of Jervis Bay's crew of 254 were picked up by the neutral Swedish ship Stureholm (three later died of their wounds). Notable events involving Jervis Bay include: 13 Oct 1939 While at Rosyth HMS Sabre (Lt.Cdr. Hundreds of people gathered at the railway station that morning to meet the train carrying Tilley and Squires. [3], Jervis Bay's sacrifice bought enough time for the convoy to begin to scatter. Ordinary Seamen Arthur W. Taylor of St. John's and George M. Squires of Topsail also survived the attack. Jervis Bay was hopelessly outgunned and outranged by the 28 cm (11 inch) guns of the German ship, but it attacked the larger ship with its guns, firing more to distract the German ship from the merchantmen than with hopes of doing any damage. Convoy HX.84. The dead were from Britain, Canada and four seamen from Newfoundland: Cecil Stansbury, James Stamp, and Gordon Sheppard of St. John's, and Wilson Avery of Long Beach, Trinity Bay. Fegen, knew his ship was badly outgunned and no match for the speed and the firepower of the Admiral Scheer. Her big brother was coming home a hero. The Jervis Bay, built originally as a passenger ship to carry emigrants to Australia, was taken over by the Admiralty in August 1939. He had been brought up by his training of nearly forty years in His Majesty's Navy and by tradition to believe that the duty of an escort of a convoy is to protect that convoy at all costs. Members of the Commission of Government, military officials, representatives of the Great War Veterans Association, the Newfoundland Patriotic Association, the Women's Patriotic Association, along with Mayor Andrew Carnell, were there to greet them, with the event broadcast on radio station VONF. AJM Models 1/700 HMS Jervis Bay. "When we were told to abandon ship, the raft was some 100, probably more, 150, 200 feet away, so there was nothing else to do but jump," Tilley said in 1959. Within a week, Tilley and Squires were well enough to travel to Newfoundland on leave. Books. HMS Jervis Bay. Figure 2: HMS Jervis Bay (F-40) as she appeared after her conversion to an armed merchant cruiser. To install click the Add extension button. Click here to hear Lewis Tilley's account, here to read Newfoundland Quarterly coverage, here to hear the full interview with Eva Murphy, CBC's Journalistic Standards and Practices. "But that was wonderful to me. Their only escort, SS Jervis Bay, was an old passenger liner that been converted into an armed merchant cruiser.To give the convoy time to disperse, Captain Edward Fogarty Fegen held the Scheer's attention by trying to ram the warship. In 2006 the Scottish town of Wick erected a plaque to the Caithness members who died in the sinking of the ship. HMAS Jervis Bay was chartered by the Royal Australian Navy on 14 May 1999 at a cost of $38 million for a period of two years, with an option to purchase, to fill a capability gap in Australia’s amphibious lift capability while the Landing Platform Amphibious ships HMAS Manoora and HMAS Kanimbla were undergoing modernisation and the Landing Ship Heavy HMAS Tobruk was in refit. Its guns fired until they were silenced. The Admiral Scheer pursued, sinking five freighters. HMS Jervis Bay started life in 1922 as a Commonwealth Line passenger liner and ended her life as a 14,000-ton barely-armed target for Germany’s large cruiser/”pocket battleship” Admiral Scheer on 5 November 1940 while trying to protect eastbound convoy HX-84. But the enemy action — one of the earliest in the six-year Battle of the Atlantic — brutally brought the Second World War home to Newfoundland. Now, that is a tremendous decision to take when you are faced with overwhelming odds, but I know that in Captain Fegen's case there were no second thoughts. Dean, RN) is heavily damaged when she is rammed by the armed merchant cruiser HMS Jervis Bay. Compiled by Christine Davies with research assistance provided by John Griffin (Newfoundland and Labrador Collection, Provincial Resource Library, Arts & Culture Centre), Colleen Field (Centre for Newfoundland Studies, Queen Elizabeth II Library, Memorial University), and Sandra Ronayne and Allan Byrne (Provincial Archives, The Rooms). As soon as he was within range with his own guns, Captain Fegen opened fire and kept his 6-inch guns firing until the last. Find the travel option that best suits you. W sierpniu 1939 r. został zarekwirowany … You could also do it yourself at any point in time. HMS Jervis Bay had been a former Australian passenger liner. Fate: Sunk in action on 05 Nov 1940 . It was enough time, though, to give the merchant ships a chance to escape. Remembrance Day ceremony at HMS Jervis Bay memorial at Hamilton, Bermuda.jpg. [citation needed], The ship is mentioned in the 1943 film "San Demetrio London". Commissioned: 15 Oct 1939. Jervis Bay was initially assigned to the South Atlantic station before becoming a convoy escort in May 1940. Christine Davies introduces the story of the HMS Jervis Bay, an early casualty in the Battle of the Atlantic. "I did, and I was more than lucky because I think there was three or four that jumped with me that I didn't see afterwards.". June 9, 2002. The convoy comprised 37 merchant freighters bound from Halifax, Nova Scotia to Britain. The "Jervis Bay" delayed an attack on the convoy for a while and in that time the convoy was all over the ocean, with the result that only some 20% of the ships were lost and 80% of the convoy reached home. HMS Jervis Bay was a British liner later converted into an armed merchant cruiser, pennant F40. On 5 November 1940, HMS Jervis Bay was sunk in the Atlantic by the German pocket battleship Admiral Scheer after the convoy Jervis Bay was escorting came under attack. Edward Fegen was born on 8th October 1891 at Southsea, Hampshire. Jervis bay. This he did. News of the fate of the Jervis Bay, her captain, and her crew had begun to trickle in within days of the attack. Ulysses.H.M.S. The men aboard the British warship HMS Jervis Bay had no illusions about the deadly risks of steaming straight into the fire of a German pocket battleship bent on blowing them out of the water. [Click here to read Newfoundland Quarterly coverage of the event, starting on page 13 of that edition.]. HMS Jervis Bay was a British liner later converted into an Armed Merchant Cruiser, pennant F40. The Research . The attack came more than a thousand kilometres away in the mid-North Atlantic. She was launched in 1922, and sunk on 5 November 1940 by the German heavy cruiser Admiral Scheer. The 1940 shelling of a Royal Navy ship escorting an Atlantic convoy brought the war home to Newfoundland, writes Christine Davies. HMS JERVIS, June 1945. Audience Relations, CBC P.O. By doing so, he put the Jervis Bay directly between the convoy and the enemy. "I don't think he missed us with anything," survivor Lewis Tilley told CBC Radio in 1959. She was launched in 1922, and sunk on 5 November 1940 by the German heavy cruiser Admiral Scheer.. Design []. This is the port where she was refitted for war service in the summer of 1940. Stores on Water and Duckworth Streets closed. She was repainted grey and allocated a crew of 255 men (mainly reservists), and the White Ensign was hoisted. Captain Fegen was awarded a posthumous Victoria Cross as a result of this action. We are also grateful to the HMS Jervis Bay Association and Eva Murphy for permission to use photographs. The first of the 11-inch shells from the Admiral Scheer knocked out the forward gun and tore into the bridge, wounding Fegen (one of his arms was shattered). That's it. The Stureholm steamed back to Halifax where the wounded were admitted to hospital. She was the sole escort for the 37 merchant ships of Convoy HX 84 that departed from Halifax on 28 October 1940, eastbound to Liverpool. Given brief repairs at Halifax, Nova Scotia,[1] she became the sole escort for the 37 merchant ships of Convoy HX 84 from Bermuda and Halifax, Nova Scotia to Britain (Jervis Bay had escorted a convoy from Bermuda which had merged at sea with a convoy from Halifax, as was the practice because larger convoys suffered fewer losses than smaller ones). He remained in the Royal Navy to the end of the war. HMS Jervis Bay was a British liner later converted into an armed merchant cruiser, pennant F40. Jervis Bay - The true story of a heroic ship that inspired Alistair MacLean's novel H.M.S. The monument was unveiled on 5 November 1941, in front of a Guard of Honour provided by the Royal Marines detachment of Despatch, by Vice Admiral Sir Charles Kennedy-Purvis, Commander-in-Chief of the North America and West Indies Station, who said: To-day is the anniversary of a very gallant naval deed, that of the action of H.M.S. I had to do that. Jervis Bay is also commemorated by the Jervis Bay Memorial Pipe Band, located in Saint John, New Brunswick, Canada. Closed Captioning and Described Video is available for many CBC shows offered on CBC Gem. At the age of 12, he entered Osborne Royal Naval College and in 1909, he was appointed midshipman on HMS Dreadnought.Just two days after the outbreak of WWI, on the 5th August 1914, his ship HMS Amphion was mined and sunk. Some 190 men lost their lives, including the captain. Jervis Bay took a fearful pounding but managed to stay afloat, a result of the 24,000 empty 45-gallon steel drums that it carried for buoyancy. Lewis Tilley died in 1972. The convoy turned to starboard, dropping smoke floats and soon after scattered. 5 November 1940, IWM Interview with survivor Samuel Patience, IWM Interview with survivor Charles Mordaunt, https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=HMS_Jervis_Bay&oldid=1020658146, World War II cruisers of the United Kingdom, World War II shipwrecks in the Atlantic Ocean, Articles needing additional references from January 2014, All articles needing additional references, Articles with unsourced statements from December 2017, Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License, This page was last edited on 30 April 2021, at 09:48. HMS Jervis Bay - WikiMili, The Free Encyclopedia - WikiMili, The Free Encyclopedia [Click here to hear the full interview with Eva Murphy.]. The final action of Jervis Bay was portrayed in the movie San Demetrio London, released in 1943, regarding the tale of heavy damage and subsequent survival of MV San Demetrio, one of the vessels of Convoy HX 84. Jervis Bay was converted into an armed merchant cruiser by Harland & Wolff Ltd, and was commissioned on 23 September 1939. Tilley, a St. John's resident, was 21 years old at the time. More shells from the German battleship slammed into the Jervis Bay, ripping her apart and setting her ablaze. Additional information. You have worthily upheld the finest traditions of the British Navy...I am deeply sorry for those who gave their lives so nobly for their king and country," Walwyn said. The Australian poet Michael Thwaites wrote a ballad about Jervis Bay in 1941, while he was serving as a naval officer in the Atlantic. HMS Jervis, HMS Jaguar and HMS Janus departed again around 1500 hours to join the convoy. It was the custom for everyone entering the room to salute the display. But the account published after the war by the captain of Admiral Scheer, and the timings of the sinking, show that there was no such engagement. HMS Jervis Bay was a British liner later converted into an armed merchant cruiser, pennant F40. Without hesitation, despite the uneven odds, HMS Jervis Bay sprang to … She was launched in 1922, and sunk on 5 November 1940 by the German pocket battleship Admiral Scheer.. Design. In the end the German cruiser was only able to sink five merchant ships and the remainder of the convoy escaped. Tilley returned to active service several weeks later. HMS JERVIS BAY Armed Merchant Cruiser HMS JERVIS BAY. [14], Coordinates: .mw-parser-output .geo-default,.mw-parser-output .geo-dms,.mw-parser-output .geo-dec{display:inline}.mw-parser-output .geo-nondefault,.mw-parser-output .geo-multi-punct{display:none}.mw-parser-output .longitude,.mw-parser-output .latitude{white-space:nowrap}53°41′N 32°17′W / 53.683°N 32.283°W / 53.683; -32.283, Shipwrecks and maritime incidents in November 1940. Armed Merchant Cruiser . It is a priority for CBC to create a website that is accessible to all Canadians including people with visual, hearing, motor and cognitive challenges. Bermuda was a formation point for trans-Atlantic convoys in both World Wars. A few survivors were picked up that night. Reviews There are no reviews yet. Tilley's younger sister, Eva Murphy, was excited to see him for the first time in about a year. These are the stark and straightforward facts. "I am proud to welcome you home. In the Ant and Cleo novels by Dominic Green, a British space fleet names one of its cruisers in the Jervis Bay's honour. She was launched in 1922, and sunk on 5 November 1940 by the German heavy cruiser Admiral Scheer. The HX.84 was escorted to the edge of the Atlantic and its close escort turned back to … He was posthumously awarded the Victoria Cross, the highest award for bravery which His Majesty the King can award. Free Shipping Worldwide – ships direct from Poland. 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