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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.
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.
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 ...
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
SUNK by E-boat torpedo in the Channel on 29 May HMS Waverley Royal Navy: Paddle minesweeper: 1899: 537: T/Lt. Sydney Frederick Harmer-Elliott, RNVR (A/S.O.) 1: 0 SUNK by E-boat torpedo in the Channel on 29 May HMS Wega Royal Navy: Dutch coaster: 1927: 192: 0 SS Westcove United Kingdom: Blockship: 1912: 2,734: Lt. Cdr. Alec Murray McKillop, RN ...
HMS King George V lead ship of class in 1941 and the most advanced British battleships of World War II. Queen Elizabeth-class battleship [30] Revenge-class battleship [31] Nelson-class battleship [32] King George V-class battleship [33]
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.
The sinking of Prince of Wales and Repulse was a naval engagement in World War II, as part of the war in the Pacific, that took place on 10 December 1941 in the South China Sea off the east coast of the British colonies of Malaya (present-day Malaysia) and the Straits Settlements (present-day Singapore and its coastal towns), 70 miles (61 nautical miles; 110 kilometres) east of Kuantan, Pahang.