Hull#

Name

Built

Service

Owner

F 57

Chitral

1925

1939-41

P. & O. Steam Navigation Co Ltd, London

In Aug 1939 the passenger ship Chitral of the P. & O. Steam Navigation Co Ltd, London was requisitioned by the Admiralty and converted to an armed merchant cruiser.

20 Nov 1939: The German merchant Bertha Fisser (4110 BRT) is intercepted in Denmark Strait west of Iceland by the British armed merchant cruiser HMS Chitral. However before the German ship can be captured she is scuttled by her own crew. 65⁰25'N 25⁰40'W - Crew interned in Internment Camp "E", Marked Road, Gainsborough, Lincolnshire, England (7.12.1939)