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Sunk by an explosion, 4 July 1945 [3] [4 ... Bahia was the lead ship of a two-vessel class ... raider Bremen was lying in wait off that port for British ...
The list of shipwrecks in 1945 includes ships sunk, foundered, grounded, or otherwise lost during 1945 This is a dynamic list and may never be able to satisfy particular standards for completeness. You can help by adding missing items with reliable sources .
The Bahia class was a pair of scout cruisers built for Brazil by Armstrong Whitworth in the United Kingdom, based on a design that borrowed heavily from the British Adventure-class scout cruisers. The class comprised the lead ship Bahia and her sister Rio Grande do Sul , along with a canceled third ship, Ceara . [ 4 ]
List of shipwrecks: 4 July 1945 Ship State Description Bahia Brazilian Navy: The Bahia-class cruiser was accidentally sunk during gunnery practice when her own guns hit depth charges at the stern of the ship with the loss of most of her crew. HMS Elizabeth Therese Royal Navy: The naval drifter (156 GRT, 1934) was lost on this date. Koshe Maru
On 21 March 1945 she rolled to port and sank. [159] Sirius Germany: World War II: The cargo ship was torpedoed and sunk in the Norwegian Sea off Namsos, Norway by HMS Venturer ( Royal Navy). [15] [160] Suma Imperial Japanese Navy
Sunk after a pirate raid at Ilha Grande, Angra dos reis. Campos: 23 October 1943 Torpedoed by the German submarine U-170. SMS Cap Trafalgar Germany: 14 September 1914 Sunk by British HMS Carmania off the coast of the Island of Trindade, Brazil, South Atlantic Ocean during World War I.
Brazilian monitor Bahia, a river monitor built in 1864 and stricken in 1894; Brazilian cruiser Bahia, lead ship of the Bahia-class cruisers built in 1909 and sunk in 1945. Brazilian submarine Bahia (S-12, 1963), a Balao-class submarine, loaned from the United States in 1963 and decommissioned in 1972.
The attacks on Kure and the Inland Sea by United States and British naval aircraft in late July 1945 sank most of the surviving large warships of the Imperial Japanese Navy (IJN). The United States Third Fleet 's attacks on Kure Naval Arsenal and nearby ports on 24, 25, and 28 July sank an aircraft carrier , three battleships , five cruisers ...