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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.
Courageous ' s aircraft were hunting for submarines shortly after the beginning of World War II when she was sunk by the German submarine U-29 on 17 September 1939. The following year, Glorious was returning to Britain when she was sunk by the German battleships Scharnhorst and Gneisenau in the North Sea on 8 June 1940. [9]
The British Fleet air arm in World War II. Oxford: Osprey. ISBN 9781846032837. Barnett, Correlli (1991). Engage the Enemy more Closely: the Royal Navy in the Second World War. New York City: W. W. Norton & Company. ISBN 0-393-02918-2. Brown, Kevin (2019). Fittest of the Fit Health and Morale in the Royal Navy, 1939–1945. Barnsley: Pen & Sword.
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 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.
List of shipwrecks: 3 April 1940 Ship State Description Gorspen United Kingdom World War II: The fishing trawler was bombed and sunk in the North Sea 20 nautical miles (37 km) east by south of Muckle Flugga, Shetland Islands by a Heinkel He 111 aircraft of Kampfgeschwader 26, Luftwaffe and was abandoned by her crew.
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 ...
U-303 was sunk on 21 May 1943 in the western Mediterranean south of Toulon, in position by torpedoes from the British submarine HMS Sickle. 20 crewmembers died and 28 U-374 was sunk on 12 January 1942 in the western Mediterranean, east of Cape Spartivento , in position 37°30′N 16°00′E / 37.50°N 16.00°E / 37.50; 16.00 ( U ...