8/14/2019 HMS Nemesis - WWII - Campbeltown - Anti-Submarine Training Ship

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March 3, 1941, the ship renamed HMS "Nemesis" and ordered to Campbeltown, sheremaining there till the autumn of 1942.

On October 6, 1942, as HMS "Baldur", sent to Iceland, to replace The North of ScotlandShipping Company's "St Clair" as an accommodation ship.

On June 4, 1945, she reverted names to again become HMS "Nemesis" and on June 15 thatyear was returned to the

Belgian government and, returning to Belgium on July 12, took up her original name,"Princesse Marie-Jos", she continuing in use as a training ship for the Belgian navy and,after a further short spell as an accommodation ship, sold to be broken up at the VanHeyghem Frres yard in 1947.

Second-in-command of HMS "Nemesis" was Lieutenant-Commander Robert W. Mayo, hefourth from left in the photograph taken on board the ship in Campbeltown Loch - He marriedSheila Colvill, a daughter of Campbeltown distiller and former provost of the town, sheworking with Campbeltown's service canteens and then The Royal Observer Corps atMachrihanish during the war years, Sheila's first husband, Herbert Reeder, served on boardHMS "Kelly" as secretary to Earl Mountbatten and he lost when HMS "Kelly" was sunk offCrete on May 23, 1941.

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Very similar in appearance to the Clyde turbine steamers "Duchess of Montrose" (1930) and"Duchess of Hamilton" (1932), though one deck higher in build, the "Princesse Marie-Jos"is seen here on her way to the ship-breakers' yard.

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