HMS Jervis Bay

	Jervis Bay at Dakar in 1940
History
United Kingdom
Name	Jervis Bay
Builder	Vickers Limited, Barrow-in-Furness
Launched	17 January 1922, as SS Jervis Bay
Acquired	August 1939
Commissioned	October 1940
Fate	Sunk by the cruiser Admiral Scheer, 5 November 1940
General characteristics
Type	Armed Merchant Cruiser
Tonnage	14,164 grt
Length	549 ft (167 m)
Beam	68 ft (21 m)
Draught	33 ft (10 m)
Speed	15 knots (28 km/h; 17 mph)
Complement	254
Armament	7 × 6 in (152 mm) Mk. VII guns; 2 × 3 in (76 mm) AA guns;

HMS Jervis Bay was a British liner later converted into an armed merchant cruiser, pennant F40. She was launched in 1922, and sunk in battle on 5 November 1940 by the German heavy cruiser Admiral Scheer in an action which earned her captain the Victoria Cross.

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