HMS Nabob – the Ship That Came Back From the Grave

As His Majesty’s Ship Nabob, this small aircraft carrier has gone down in naval history for surviving a torpedo in August 1944 during an attack on the German battleship Tirpitz.

To the amazement of many, and thanks to the heroism of her crew, she made it safely back to port. But her naval career was over. Sold for scrap, she was rebuilt as a freighter—often coming in to Vancouver—until 1977.

No stranger to B.C., she’d had a previous close call—right here in British Columbia waters, before she went overseas.

That’s next week’s fascinating story in the Chronicles.

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PHOTO: Dangerously down by the stern, HMS Nabob struggles to make it back to home port, —Wikipedia