| Administrative History | HMS Jervis Bay was a passenger liner converted to an armed merchant cruiser. On 5 November 1940 she was the escort to a convoy of 37 merchant ships, Convoy HX-84 from Nova Scotia to Britain, when they were attacked by the German pocket battleship Admiral Scheer. The captain of the Jervis Bay, Edward Fegen, ordered the merchant ships to scatter and deliberately sacrificed his own ship by attacking the German battleship to buy the others time to escape, knowing that the Jervis Bay was no match for the Admiral Scheer. The Jervis Bay was sunk and there were only 65 survivors; but although 5 merchantmen from the convoy were subsequently sunk, the rest escaped. |