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The Saint John Real Estate Board donated new hardware and flags for a Jervis Bay Ross Memorial Park.
The Saint John Real Estate Board recently donated new hardware and 3 new flags to fly on a Jervis Bay Ross Memorial Park’s dwindle poles. The park is a usually immature space on a easterly side of Saint John. More importantly, it serves as an critical sign of a contributions done to a fight by New Brunswickers. It is also a relic to a HMS Jervis Bay, that sank 71 years ago.
An Australian ship, it was quite critical to Saint John since in 1940 a Saint John Drydock refitted a boat for fight service. Her captain and organisation became good famous to Saint Johners. But before a refit was complete, avocation called. The Jervis Bay, escorting a procession opposite a Atlantic, bravely challenged an aggressive German ravisher in mid-ocean. She took a “suicide” stance, permitting many of a 38 ships in a procession to shun during a brief battle. The Jervis Bay was hopelessly outgunned, though battled a Nazi ravisher as she continued to penetrate in abandon following an explosion. Sixty-six group were rescued. The captain of a HMS Jervis Bay, who went down with his ship, was posthumously awarded a Victoria Cross for his bravery.
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