Navy | The Royal Navy |
Type | Escort Carrier |
Class | Ameer |
Pennant | D 77 |
Built by | Seattle-Tacoma Shipbuilding Corp. (Seattle, Washington, U.S.A.) |
Ordered | |
Laid down | 20 Oct 1942 |
Launched | 9 Mar 1943 |
Commissioned | 7 Sep 1943 |
End service | 30 Sep 1944 |
History | Transferred to the Royal Navy under lend-lease. Hit by U-boat |
U-boat Attack | See our U-boat attack entry for the HMS Nabob |
Former name | USS Edisto |
Commands listed for HMS Nabob (D 77)
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Commander | From | To | |
1 | Cdr. Horatio Nelson Lay, OBE, RCN | 15 Oct 1943 | 30 Sep 1944 |
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Notable events involving Nabob include:
12 Jan 1944
HMS Nabob (A/Capt. H.N. Lay, OBE, RCN) completed a refit at Burrard Dry Dock Co. Ltd., Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada.
3 Jul 1944
HMS Upshot (Lt. H.W. Wilkinson, RN) conducted A/S exercises off Larne with aircraft from HMS Nabob (Cdr. H.N. Lay, OBE, RCN) (1)
5 Jul 1944
HMS Upshot (Lt. H.W. Wilkinson, RN) conducted A/S exercises off Larne with aircraft from HMS Nabob (Cdr. H.N. Lay, OBE, RCN) (1)
22 Aug 1944
On 22 August 1944 HMS Nabob (A/Capt. H.N. Lay, OBE, RCN) was torpedoed and damaged in the Arctic off the North Cape in position 71°42'N, 19°11'E by German U-boat U-354.
HMS Nabob down by the stern as a result of the torpedo damage.
Sources
- ADM 173/19297
ADM numbers indicate documents at the British National Archives at Kew, London.