Description
Object description
Photocopy of a pamphlet (11pp) recording the history of the cruiser HMS BONAVENTURE in 1940 - 1941 written by Admiral Sir Nigel Henderson, who as a Lieutenant Commander had been her Gunnery Officer throughout the commission, in 1981 and describing in particular her deployment with the 15th Cruiser Squadron, Home Fleet, based on Scapa Flow, on sweeps off the Norwegian coast and the search for survivors from the armed merchant cruiser HMS JERVIS BAY (May - November 1940), her service as part of the escort force with convoy WS5A when she helped to repulse an attack on the convoy by the German heavy cruiser ADMIRAL HIPPER on Christmas Day 1940 and intercepted and sank the German merchant ship SS BADEN on the next day, her brief period of service with Force H during the passage of a convoy from Gibraltar to Malta which came under heavy air attack (January 1941) and her deployment with the 3rd Cruiser Squadron, Mediterranean Fleet, based on Alexandria, until she was sunk off Crete, with heavy loss of life, by the Italian submarine AMBRA while engaged on convoy escort. Admiral Henderson's narrative of BONAVENTURE's operations, which is often supplemented by his personal recollections of the events that he describes, is accompanied by two wartime presscuttings linked to the ship's history.
Content description
Photocopy of a pamphlet (11pp) recording the history of the cruiser HMS BONAVENTURE in 1940 - 1941 written by Admiral Sir Nigel Henderson, who as a Lieutenant Commander had been her Gunnery Officer throughout the commission, in 1981 and describing in particular her deployment with the 15th Cruiser Squadron, Home Fleet, based on Scapa Flow, on sweeps off the Norwegian coast and the search for survivors from the armed merchant cruiser HMS JERVIS BAY (May - November 1940), her service as part of the escort force with convoy WS5A when she helped to repulse an attack on the convoy by the German heavy cruiser ADMIRAL HIPPER on Christmas Day 1940 and intercepted and sank the German merchant ship SS BADEN on the next day, her brief period of service with Force H during the passage of a convoy from Gibraltar to Malta which came under heavy air attack (January 1941) and her deployment with the 3rd Cruiser Squadron, Mediterranean Fleet, based on Alexandria, until she was sunk off Crete, with heavy loss of life, by the Italian submarine AMBRA while engaged on convoy escort. Admiral Henderson's narrative of BONAVENTURE's operations, which is often supplemented by his personal recollections of the events that he describes, is accompanied by two wartime presscuttings linked to the ship's history.
History note
Cataloguer RWAS
History note
Catalogue date 2007-09