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Old 22-08-22, 18:19
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Default HMS Nabob - The First Canadian manned Aircraft Carrier

On This Day in 1944 - read more in the link below.

And there’s a Dutch connection

http://www.royalnavyresearcharchive....CORT/NABOB.htm

“22 August 1944 Canadian-manned Lend-lease Ruler-class Escort Carrier HMS Nabob heavily damaged from a single torpedo from submarine U-354 in Barents Sea during Operation Goodwood. Returned to Scapa Flow under own power, then towed to Rosyth, beached in Forth and abandoned, later cannibalised for spares. Post-war sold for scrap by USN but rebuilt in Rotterdam as mercantile Nabob and eventually scrapped in 1977.”

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