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The aircraft carrier HMS Ark Royal sinking after being torpedoed by a German submarine in November 1941, the assisting destroyer HMS Legion was sunk in 1942. This is a list of Royal Navy ships and personnel lost during World War II, from 3 September 1939 to 1 October 1945. See also List of ships of the Royal Navy.
Vittorio Alfieri – On 28 March the Italian destroyer was disabled by British battleships and sunk by HMS Stuart during the Battle of Cape Matapan. Only 35 of her 245 crew survived. 210 Navy 1943 United States: USS Maddox – On 10 July, while on antisubmarine patrol, the US destroyer was attacked by a German dive bomber. One of the bombs ...
The Laconia incident was a series of events surrounding the sinking of a British passenger ship in the Atlantic Ocean on 12 September 1942, during World War II, and a subsequent aerial attack on German and Italian submarines involved in rescue attempts.
Warships lost with all hands (4 C, 150 P) Pages in category "Ships lost with all hands" The following 200 pages are in this category, out of approximately 300 total.
At the beginning of the Second World War, the Royal Navy was the strongest navy in the world. It had 20 battleships and battlecruisers ready for service or under construction, twelve aircraft carriers, over 90 light and heavy cruisers, 70 submarines, over 100 destroyers as well as numerous escort ships, minelayers, minesweepers and 232 aircraft.
An Orion-class battleship sunk as a target by British aircraft and warships in Hurd's Deep in the English Channel, about 50 nautical miles (93 km; 58 mi) south of the Isles of Scilly. Ouse United Kingdom: 8 August 1940 A cargo ship that collided with Rye off Newhaven. Rye: 7 April 1917 A cargo ship that was torpedoed by UB-74
A Type VIIC/41 U-boat that was sunk by a British Short Sunderland flying boat of No. 201 Squadron RAF 16 nautical miles (30 km) west of Yesnaby, Orkney Islands. U-714 Kriegsmarine: 14 March 1945 German U-Boat sunk by depth charges from the South African frigate HMSAS Natal. She was discovered in the Firth of Forth in 2007.
A list of sunken battleships. Red symbols sunken battleships, purple symbols denote battleships sunk as aircraft carriers, and stars denote more than one battleship in an area. Sunken battleships are the wrecks of large capital ships built from the 1880s to the mid-20th century that were either destroyed in battle, mined, deliberately destroyed ...