Name: HMS Jervis Bay Memorial in Hamilton
Address: Hamilton, BM, Bermuda
Telephone: +1-441
Rating: 5

HMS Jervis Bay Memorial in Hamilton

HMS Jervis Bay Memorial

Point Pleasant Park, Point Pleasant Park, Albuoy's Point, Hamilton, Pembroke, Parish, Hamilton

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Point Pleasant Park, Albuoy's Point, Hamilton, Pembroke, Point Pleasant Park, Parish, Hamilton, Bermuda

Contacts phone: +1-441

Latitude: 32.2910828, Longitude: -64.7867934

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:: 22 March 2018 18:45:10
"Be thou faithful unto death". Commemorating the selfless bravery of Captain Fogarty Fegen RN VC and his ship's company. In Point Pleasant Park, there is a memorial plaque donated by subscription in memory of the Captain and crew of the Armed Merchant Cruiser HMS Jervis Bay who defended Convoy HX-84 (from Halifax Nova Scotia, bound for UK) against attack from the Admiral Scheer on 05 Nov 1940. HMS Jervis Bay set sail on her fateful voyage from her Albuoys Point berth in Bermuda to rendezvous with HX-84 prior to the transatlantic crossing. Captain Fegen RN was awarded a posthumous VC for his bravery. The citation reads: "for valour in challenging hopeless odds and giving his life to save the many ships it was his duty to protect. On the 5th of November, 1940, in heavy seas, Captain Fegen, in His Majesty's Armed Merchant Cruiser Jervis Bay, was escorting thirty-eight Merchantmen. Sighting a powerful German warship he at once drew clear of the Convoy, made straight for the Enemy, and brought his ship between the Raider and her prey, so that they might scatter and escape. Crippled, in flames, unable to reply, for nearly an hour the Jervis Bay held the German's fire. So she went down: but of the Merchantmen all but four or five were saved."