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The bomb, planted by members of the Jewish Haganah in the hope of disabling the ship, sank her instead. 260 were killed (209 bodies recovered), 172 injured. The surviving refugees were allowed to remain in Palestine. 260 Civilian 1940 United Kingdom: City of Benares – The passenger ship was sunk by U-48 on 17 September.
MV Wilhelm Gustloff was a German military transport ship which was sunk on 30 January 1945 by Soviet submarine S-13 in the Baltic Sea while evacuating civilians and military personnel from East Prussia and the German-occupied Baltic states, and German military personnel from Gotenhafen (), as the Red Army advanced.
The ship was knocked out of the war and although repaired, she did not see active service after World War II. She was scrapped in 1973. USS Wasp (CV-18), on 19 March 1945, was hit with a 500 lb armor-piercing bomb which penetrated both the flight and hangar decks, then exploded in the crew's galley. Many of her shipmates were having breakfast ...
USS Archerfish (SS/AGSS-311) was a Balao-class submarine.She was the first ship of the United States Navy to be named for the archerfish. Archerfish is best known for sinking the Japanese aircraft carrier Shinano in November 1944, the largest warship ever sunk by a submarine.
Cargo ship serving as POW ship Italy: 14 November 1942: HMS Sahib United Kingdom: 865 [41] Arandora Star: Ocean liner serving as POW ship United Kingdom: 2 July 1940: U-47 Germany: 862 [42] HMS Barham: Battleship United Kingdom: 25 November 1941: U-331 Germany: 856 [43] Nova Scotia: Troopship/POW ship United Kingdom: 28 November 1942: U-177 ...
She was sunk en route, 10 days after commissioning, on 29 November 1944, by four torpedoes from the U.S. Navy submarine Archerfish. Over a thousand sailors and civilians were rescued and 1,435 were lost, including her captain. She remains the largest ship ever sunk by a submarine. [1]
When launched on 7 June 1958, it was the largest ship on North America's Great Lakes, and it remains the largest to have sunk there. 29 1978 West Germany: The MS München was a LASH carrier of the Hapag-Lloyd line that sank with all crew for unknown reasons in a severe storm on 13 December.
Ceded to Soviet Union 1948, renamed Novorossiysk, sunk by abandoned mine Gneisenau Kriegsmarine: Scharnhorst: fast battleship: 32,000 21 May 1938 1 July 1942 Sunk as block ship March 1945 Haruna Imperial Japanese Navy: KongÅ: fast battleship: 37,187 19 April 1915 28 July 1945 Sunk at her moorings on 28 July 1945, raised and scrapped in 1946 Hessen