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Battleships Number in commission Number lost Loss rate Theatre Pacific Atlantic Panama Old battleships (OBB) 15 2 13.3% 2 Fast battleships (NBB) 10 0.0% Aircraft carriers Number in commission Number lost Loss rate Theatre Pacific Atlantic Panama Fleet carriers (CV) 24 4 16.7% 4 Light carriers (CVL) 9 1 11.1% 1 Escort carriers (CVE) 77 6 7.8% 5 ...
At approximately 02:20 Monssen, was spotlighted by a large Japanese warship in the pitch-black night, then hit by possibly 39 shells, including many of battleship caliber. Monssen was quickly reduced to a burning hulk. Twenty minutes later, completely immobilized, and burning furiously; she was ordered abandoned.
The British and Allied fleets fought battles all over the world and lost many ships, but only three ships were lost in battle against German surface ships : the battlecruiser Hood and the light cruisers Sydney and Charybdis. U-boats sank 175 Allied warships in total, [5] in all theatres of operations. Many of these were sunk in the ...
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.
submarines lost Sep. '39 3297070 153879 0 5051 29537 158930 2 Oct. '39 3576135 134807 0 32058 29490 166865 5 Nov. '39 4408689 51589 0 1722 120958 53311 1 Dec. '39 4466664 80881 2949 22506 82712 106336 1 Jan. '40 4847044 111263 23693 0 77116 134956 1 Feb. '40 4348820 169566 853 1761 54740 172180 6 Mar. '40 4970525
German battleship Schleswig-Holstein, shelling Westerplatte in Poland on 1 September 1939. World War II saw the end of the battleship as the dominant force in the world's navies. At the outbreak of the war, large fleets of battleships—many inherited from the dreadnought era decades before—were one of the decisive forces in naval thinking ...
Minimally 49 crewmen and 900, possibly as many as 4,600, passengers killed. 45 crewmen and 600 passengers were rescued. 2,500 (950–4,600) Civilian 1945 Japan: Yamato – The largest battleship ever built, she was sunk on 7 April by torpedo planes from the aircraft carrier USS Hornet and others. 280 of Yamato ' s 2,778 crew were rescued. This ...
Conway's All the World's Fighting Ships 1922–1946. Conway Maritime Press. ISBN 0-85177-146-7. Gibbons, Tony (1983). The Complete Encyclopedia of Battleships and Battlecruisers - A Technical Directory of all the World's Capital Ships from 1860 to the Present Day. London, UK: Salamander Books Ltd. p. 272. ISBN 0-517-37810-8.