HMS Ajax
An item dated Montevideo, Uruguay 5th reported the arrival of the British oil tanker San Gerardo with on board 40 persons taken over the German cargo ship Olinda. The latter ship was in the middle of the Atlantic Ocean sunk on last Sunday by the British cruiser HMS Ajax.(1)
Note
1. Building ordered on 1 October 1932,
laid down at Vickers Armstrong, Barrow-in-Furness, England on 7 February 1933,
launched on 1 March 1934, commissioned on 12 April 1935, participated in the
Battle of Rio de Plata against the German pocket battleship Admiral Graf Spee
on 13 December 1939, decommissioned in February 1948, a sale to India was
cancelled by Winston Churchill, after temporarily being grounded arrived she at
Cashmore’s, Newport, England to be broken up on 18 November 1949. Pennant 22.
Of the Leander-class light cruisers consisting of the Leander, Orion, Neptune,
Ajax, Achilles, Amphion, Apollo and Sydney). With the Leander and the
Perth-Sydney-Hobart forming sub classes. Preceded by the Emerald class and
succeeded by the Arethusa-class.
