Bogue-class
As the German cargo ship Nabob
Of the Bogue-class with a displacement of 7.800 tons and as dimensions 495.8 x 69.6 x 26 (maximum) feet. Her crew numbered 890 men. Her machinery consisting of geared turbines supplied 8.500 shp allowing with one screw a speed of 17,5 knots. Armament consisted of 2-12,7cm/5” cal guns, 8x2 cm Bofors guns, 14x2-2cm Oerlikon canon and 7x1-2cm Oerlikon canon she carried 18-24 aircraft with her. Laid down by Seattle-Tacoma Shipbuilding Corporation on 20 October 1942, launched on 22 March 1943 on 7 September 1943 under Lend-Lease conditions handed over to the United Kingdom and commissioned, heavily damaged when torpedoed by the German submarine U-354 in the Barents Sea on 2 August 1944, beached and left behind on the south bank of the Firth of Forth not worth repairs, decommissioned on 10 October 1944, returned to the USA on 16 March 1946, sold on 26 October 1946, sold to be broken up in the Netherlands in September 1947 but resold and repaired/rebuilt as the German cargo ship Nabob (West-Germany-flagged, IMO 5245045) of the Norddeutscher Lloyd in 1951, commissioned in 1952,call sign DEBN, net tonnage 4.638 tons, gross tonnage 7.907 tons, summer deadweight 12.800 tons, dimensions 491.11 x 69.4 (moulded)-69.6 (maximum) x 42.6 (moulded depth) x 29.4 ¾ feet, sold to Chinese owners at Hong Kong in 1967, renamed Glory (Panama-flagged) of Chi-Shihi Nav. Corp., Panama, call sign HOJT and sold to be broken up at Taiwan on 6 December 1977.
