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Convoy HX 84
Convoy HX 84 was the 84th of the numbered series of Allied North Atlantic HX convoys of merchant ships from Halifax to Liverpool during the battle of the Atlantic. Thirty-eight ships escorted by the armed merchant cruiser HMS ''Jervis Bay'' departed Halifax, Nova Scotia on 28 October 1940, eastbound to Liverpool, England.
On 5 November 1940, the German pocket battleship ''Admiral Scheer'' found the convoy at and attacked immediately. Captain E.S.F. Fegen of ''Jervis Bay'' attacked the raider so as to delay ''Admiral Scheer'' and to allow the convoy to escape. ''Jervis Bay'' was sunk after 20 minutes of fighting with the loss of 190 of her crew. Nevertheless, their sacrifice allowed the convoy to begin to scatter. Themerchant ship ''Beaverford'', armed with only two guns, engaged ''Admiral Scheer'' in a cat and mouse gunnery duel that lasted for five hours before ''Beaverford'' was sunk with all hands. This allowed most of the convoy to complete their escape.〔Duncan Haws, ''Merchant Fleets in Profile'' Vol. 3, Cambridge: Patrick Stevens Co(1979), p. 167〕 ''Admiral Scheer was only able to sink six of the 38 ships in the convoy.
''Maiden'', ''Trewellard'', ''Kenbame Head'', ''Beaverford and ''Fresno'' were sunk and tanker MV ''San Demetrio'' damaged, but failing light now allowed the rest of the convoy to escape. ''San Demetrio'' was abandoned by her crew, but two days later some of the crew, now in lifeboats, sighted ''San Demetrio'', still afloat and still ablaze. They reboarded her, got the engines running, and brought her in to port. This incident later formed the basis for the script of the film ''San Demetrio London''.
==Ships in the convoy〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Convoy HX.84 )〕==
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