HMS Effingham
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HMS Effingham
was a heavy cruiser of the Hawkins class and was the last
of her class to be produced. Launched in 1921 she was
modernized several times before the outbreak of the second
world war. In her service from the mid 1920s, she
had served in India before she returned back to England,
and service in the reserve fleet and thereafter for Home
Fleet. In April 1940 she was ordered to set sail for
Norway and support in operations there. At Narvik she
supported 13 DBLE from the French Foreign Legion to make
it ashore at Bjerkvik and the assault on German positions
followed by transport troop. On her way to Bodø carrying
Bren Gun carriers and soldiers, she hit ground and rips
open her hull and partly sinks outside Faksen o the
evening 7. May 1940. In the following weeks her cargo was
salvaged and her armaments put out of action. 21.May she
is put out of action for good by Royal Navy and abandoned.
The
wreck was salvaged and dismantled by the Norwegian company
Høvding Skipsopphugging after the second world war, and
today its just a big pile of junk left from her. The wreck
debris rest on a depth of 3 to 20 meter.
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| 67° 16' 59" N, 13° 57' 54" E  Picture: HMS Effingham Courtesy of Uboat.net |
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