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2. HMS Courageous (50) - Wikipedia

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   Courageous was the first British warship to be sunk by German forces. (The submarine Oxley had been sunk a week earlier by friendly fire from the British submarine Triton.) [41] The commander of the German submarine force, Commodore Karl Dönitz, regarded the sinking of Courageous as "a wonderful success" and it led to widespread jubilation in ...

3. HMS Courageous (S50) - Wikipedia

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   HMS Courageous (S50) is a decommissioned Churchill-class [1] nuclear fleet submarine in service with the Royal Navy from 1971. She is now a museum ship managed by the Devonport Naval Heritage Centre. In 2021, plans to set up a Cold War Centre around Courageous entered their first phase of implementation, supported by the National Museum of the ...

4. List of Royal Navy losses in World War II - Wikipedia

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   HMS Courageous (50) off the coast of Ireland: 17 September 1939: Sunk by U-29: HMS Glorious (77) Norwegian Sea: 8 June 1940: Sunk by naval gunfire from Scharnhorst and Gneisenau: HMS Ark Royal (91) south east of Gibraltar: 13 November 1941: Sunk by U-81: HMS Hermes (95) Sri Lanka: 9 April 1942: Sunk by Japanese aircraft HMS Eagle (94) south of ...

5. HMS Courageous - Wikipedia

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   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 ...

6. Otto Schuhart - Wikipedia

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   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.

7. Battle of the Atlantic - Wikipedia

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   On 14 September 1939, Britain's most modern carrier, HMS Ark Royal, narrowly avoided being sunk when three torpedoes from U-39 exploded prematurely. U-39 was forced to surface and scuttle by the escorting destroyers, becoming the first U-boat loss of the war. Another carrier, HMS Courageous, was sunk three days later by U-29.

8. German submarine U-29 (1936) - Wikipedia

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   German submarine U-29 was a Type VIIA U-boat of Nazi Germany's Kriegsmarine during World War II. She was laid down on 2 January 1936, launched on 29 August and commissioned on 10 November. During her career U-29 was involved in seven war patrols under the command of Kapitänleutnant Otto Schuhart .

9. Courageous-class aircraft carrier - Wikipedia

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   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.