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HMAS Nizam (G 38)

Destroyer of the N class

NavyThe Royal Australian Navy
TypeDestroyer
ClassN 
PennantG 38 
Built byJohn Brown Shipbuilding & Engineering Company Ltd. (Clydebank, Scotland) 
Ordered15 Apr, 1939 
Laid down27 Jul, 1939 
Launched4 Jul, 1940 
Commissioned8 Jan, 1941 
End service17 Oct, 1945 
Loss position
 
History

Returned to the Royal Navy on 17 October 1945.
HMS Nizam was scrapped in November 1955.

Commanding Officers:
Lt.Cdr. Max Joshua Clark, RAN
19 December 1940 – 26 January 1943
DSC awarded on 8 January 1942

Cdr. Claude Henry Brooks, RAN
26 January 1943 – November 1944

A/Lt.Cdr. William Frank Cook, RAN
November 1944 – still in command in October 1945 according to the Navy List 

Former nameHMS Nizam

Noteable events involving Nizam include:

8 Oct, 1942
HMAS Nizam (Cdr. M.J. Clark, DSO, RAN) picks up 64 survivors from the Dutch merchant Gaasterkerk that was torpedoed and sunk off Capetown, South-Africa in position 34º20'S, 18º10'E by the German submarine U-68.

31 Jul, 1943
HMAS Nizam (Cdr. C.H. Brooks, RAN) picks up 6 survivors from the British merchant Cornish City that was torpedoed and sunk on 29 July 1943 by the German submarine U-177 south-east of Madagascar in position 27º20'S, 52º10'E.



Books dealing with this subject include:

Afridi to Nizam – British Fleet Destroyers 1937 – 43, English, John, 2003


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