British armed merchant cruiser Corfu and HMS aircraft carrier Hermes collided according to the War Cabinet Weekly Résumé No. 45 of the Naval, Military and Air Situation 4-12 July 1940

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An item reported that in a dense tropical storm the British armed merchant cruiser Corfu (1) and HMS aircraft carrier Hermes (2) on 10 July collided. The Corfu was escorting a convoy from Freetown, Sierra Leone but heavily holed forward was forced to go under escort to Freetown.

Notes

1. Ordered by P&O Line on 25 June 1930, laid down by Alexander Stephen and Sons, Glasgow, Scotland with yard number 535 on 9 September 1930, launched on 20 May 1941, maiden voyage begun on 16 October 1931, requisitioned by the navy in September 1939, armed merchant cruiser until February 1944, troop trasnport until the end of the Second World War and broken up at Osaka, Japan in 1961.

2. Based on a cruiser hull-design using a seaplane carrier design dating 1916 but which was enlarged and modified in a design dating April 1917. Building ordered in April 1917, laid down by Armstrong Whitworth on 15 January 1918, launched on 11 September 1919, commissioned on 18 February 1924, reclassified as training ship on 16 July 1938, again as aircraft carrier on 24 August 1939 and sunk during a Japanese air attack on 9 April 1942.

Source

National Archive UK. CAB-66-9-42. 

British cargo ship Fabian lost according to the War Cabinet Weekly Résumé No. 64 of the Naval, Military and Air Situation 14-21 November 1940

An item reported the loss on 16 November of the British cargo ship Fabian, tonnage 3,059 tons, U/B sunk by a submarine on the position 350 miles south south west of Freetown, Sierra Leone. Not part of a convoy. Of the crew were 6 men missing.

Source

National Archive UK. CAB-66-13-37. 

British destroyer HMS Nestor visited the Azores in September 1941

In his letter No. 1200dated Lisbon 5 September 1941 reported the German naval attaché in Portugal to the Oberkommando der Kriegsmarine at Berlin referring to an Italian source at Ponta Delgada that the British destroyer HMS Ebotor [misspelling] after loading 220 ton nafta on 2 September departed towards Freetown [Sierra Leone].(1)

Note

1. The British destroyer HMS Nestor G02. Part of N-class preceded by Tribal-class succeeded by L- and M-classes. Laid down by Fairfield Shipbuilding and Engineering Company Limited, Scotland in 1939, launched on 9 July 1940, commissioned on 3 February 1941 and scuttled on 16 June 1942 after being damaged in an air attack on 15 June 1942 while underway from Haifa towards Malta but the convoy changed course to Malta with the attack off Greece.

Source

Bundesarchive. RM 11-17. German naval attaché in Portugal.