Ajax Bank

Ajax Bank (49˚39'00" 124˚43'00" E of Comox Hbr, Str of Georgia). Named by regional hydrographer Henri Parizeau in 1945 after the Leander-class light cruiser Ajax, under Capt Charles Woodhouse, which joined HMS Exeter and HMNZS Achilles to ultimately destroy German pocket battleship Admiral Graf Spee in the Battle of the River Plate, at Montevideo, Uruguay, in 1939. The 169-m, 6,549-tonne Ajax, launched in 1934, spent most of the rest of WWII in the Mediterranean. It was decommissioned in...

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