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All 11 ships in the convoy were sunk. Of those on board, 1,047 of the 1,289 British and Dutch POWs aboard died. 1,047 Military 1944 Japan: Musashi – Sister ship of Yamato, sunk by US aircraft on 24 October in the Battle of Leyte Gulf, with a loss of 1,023 of her crew of 2,399. 1,023 Navy 1942 Germany
World War II: The cargo ship was sunk at Amoy, China during an American air raid. [16] Kenkoku Maru Japan: World War II: The cargo ship was torpedoed and sunk in the Pacific Ocean by USS Rasher ( United States Navy). [16] Marguerite Germany: World War II: The ship struck a mine and sank in the Ionian Sea with the loss of at least 544 lives. [16 ...
Much like battlecruisers, battleships typically sank with large loss of life if and when they were destroyed in battle.The first battleship to be sunk by gunfire alone, [4] the Russian battleship Oslyabya, sank with half of her crew at the Battle of Tsushima when the ship was pummeled by a seemingly endless stream of Japanese shells striking the ship repeatedly, killing crew with direct hits ...
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 ...
Although the Soviets enjoyed an overwhelming superiority in surface ships over the Axis, this was effectively negated by German air superiority and most of the Soviet ships sunk were destroyed by bombing. For the majority of the war, the Black Sea Fleet was commanded by Vice Admiral Filipp Oktyabrskiy, its other commander being Lev Vladimirsky.
World War II: The CAM ship was torpedoed and sunk in the Atlantic Ocean (approximately ) by U-576 ( Kriegsmarine) with the loss of all 55 crew. [1] [123] [124] HMS Grasshopper Royal Navy: World War II: The Dragonfly-class gunboat was bombed and sunk off Rusuk Island by Japanese aircraft with the loss of 165 crew.
This list of ships of the Second World War contains major military vessels of the war, arranged alphabetically and by type. The list includes armed vessels that served during the war and in the immediate aftermath, inclusive of localized ongoing combat operations, garrison surrenders, post-surrender occupation, colony re-occupation, troop and prisoner repatriation, to the end of 1945.
World War II: The cargo ship was sunk at Tripoli, Libya. [71] HMS MTB 30 Royal Navy: World War II: The motor torpedo boat struck a mine and sank in the North Sea. Four of her crew were killed, and another died before he could be transferred to hospital. [142] [143] Monsun Germany: The cargo ship foundered off Rørvik, Norway. [144] Oropos: Greece