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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 British also converted all three of their "light battlecruisers" into aircraft carriers even though they were not subject to the treaty. The Japanese rebuilt their four remaining battlecruisers into fast battleships during the 1930s. World War II took a heavy toll on the remaining battlecruisers, both converted and unconverted. In contrast ...
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 ...
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.
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.
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 ...
[1] [2] On the British side, Rodney was lightly damaged by near-misses and by the blast effects of her own guns. [3] British warships rescued 110 survivors from Bismarck before being obliged to withdraw because of an apparent U-boat sighting, leaving several hundred men to their fate. A U-boat and a German weathership rescued five more survivors.
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 ...