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Courageous sinking after being torpedoed by U-29. Courageous served with the Home Fleet at the start of World War II with 811 and 822 Squadrons aboard, each squadron equipped with a dozen Fairey Swordfish. [38] In the early days of the war, hunter-killer groups were formed around the fleet's aircraft carriers to find and destroy U-boats. On 31 ...
In 1939, Courageous had a complement of 807 officers and ratings, plus 403 men in her air group. [11] Their half-sister Furious was the same length, but had a beam of 89 ft 0.75 in (27.1 m), [12] and an average draught of 27 ft 3 in (8.3 m) at deep load, two feet deeper than before the conversion. She displaced 22,500 long tons (22,900 t) at ...
Otto Schuhart (4 September 1909 – 10 March 1990) was a German submarine commander during World War II, who commanded the U-boat U-29 and was credited with the sinking of the aircraft carrier HMS Courageous on 17 September 1939, the first British warship sunk in the war by enemy action.
HMS Courageous or Courageux (the French spelling) may refer to one of several ships of the Royal Navy: HMS Courageux (1761), a 74-gun ship of the line captured from the French on 13 August 1761, and wrecked on the coast of Morocco 19 Dec 1796. HMS Courageux, or Courageuse, was a 32-gun sailing frigate captured from the French in June 1799. She ...
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.
1939, September 17 - German U-boat U-29 sinks HMS Courageous. 1939, October 14 – German U-boat U-47 sinks HMS Royal Oak in Scapa Flow base. The First Lord of Admiralty Winston Churchill officially announced the loss of Royal Oak to the House of Commons, first conceding that the raid had been "a remarkable exploit of professional skill and ...
The largest loss of life in the sinking of a battlecruiser was the 1,415 killed in the sinking of HMS Hood during her confrontation with the German battleship Bismarck in 1941. Of the three surviving World War II battlecruisers, two were scrapped after the war and one, USS Saratoga , was sunk by nuclear weapon tests in 1946.
8 September 1939 Regent Tiger United Kingdom: 10,176 Sunk 13 September 1939 Neptunia United Kingdom: 798 Sunk 14 September 1939 British Influence United Kingdom: 8,431 Sunk 17 September 1939 HMS Courageous Royal Navy: 22,500 Sunk 3 March 1940 Cato United Kingdom: 710 Sunk (mine) 4 March 1940 Pacific Reliance United Kingdom: 6,717 Sunk 4 March 1940