November 1940 - Halifax/UK convoy HX84 with 37 ships has as its solitary escort, the armed merchant cruiser Jervis Bay. The convoy is attacked by the 11 inch gunned pocket battleship Admiral Scheer in mid-Atlantic. The convoy is ordered to scatter as Jervis Bay heads for the Scheer, guns firing. The end is in no doubt and she goes down, but her sacrifice saves all but five of the merchant ships. Capt Edward Fegen RN is posthumously awarded the Victoria Cross.