Home waters HMS Nigeria (60)
ship s badge in national maritime museum
nigeria served in home waters , off scandinavian coast part of war. on 28 june 1941 nigeria, in company destroyers bedouin, tartar , jupiter intercepted german weather ship lauenburg in thick fog north-east of jan mayen island. german ship detected through use of hf/df. crew of lauenburg abandoned ship after fired upon, allowing british board her. valuable codebooks , parts of enigma machine found aboard , recovered. 1 of earliest captures of enigma material of war, , came few weeks after destroyer bulldog had captured first complete enigma machine german submarine u-110 on 9 may 1941.
in july 1941, nigeria became flagship of force k, commanded rear admiral philip vian. during period, force k made 2 expeditions spitsbergen (norwegian territory), first ascertain situation , second, in september, escort troopship, empress of australia, canadian troops , team of demolition experts (see operation gauntlet). task evacuate norwegian , soviet personnel archipelago , destroy coalmines , fuel stocks might of use enemy. bear island visited destroy german weather station. 2 cruisers of task force, nigeria , aurora diverted intercept german convoy. during action, nigeria sank german training ship bremse, suffered serious damage bow, possibly having detonated mine. on return britain, sent newcastle repairs.
a distant view of nigeria stopped , on fire after being torpedoed
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