Navy | The Royal Navy |
Type | Armed Merchant Cruiser |
Class | [No specific class] |
Pennant | F 47 |
Built by | Workman Clark & Co. Ltd. (Belfast, Northern Ireland) |
Ordered | |
Laid down | |
Launched | 14 Aug 1923 |
Commissioned | 4 Jan 1940 |
Lost | 4 Apr 1941 |
Loss position | 14° 30'N, 40° 30'W |
History | On 27 October 1939 the passenger ship Voltaire of the Lamport & Holt Ltd, Liverpool was requisitioned by the Admiralty and converted to an armed merchant cruiser. Conversion was completed on 4 January 1940. Displacement: 13245 BRT Career: On 4 April 1941 HMS Voltaire (A/Capt. James Alexander Pollard Blackburn, DSC, (retired), RN) was on isolated patrol in the central Atlantic, about 900 nautical miles west of the Cape Verde Islands: at 0615 hrs she was spotted by the lookouts of the german raider Thor (Schiff 10, 3862 tgr, 6-150 {5.9"}, 4-21" tubes, FK Kähler) and the ships headed for each other. |
Commands listed for HMS Voltaire (F 47)
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Commander | From | To | |
1 | Capt. (retired) Claude Lindesay Bate, DSO, RN | 25 Sep 1939 | 21 Sep 1940 |
2 | A/Capt. (retired) James Alexander Pollard Blackburn, DSC, RN | 21 Sep 1940 | 4 Apr 1941 |
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