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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.
HMS Thetis (N25) was a Group 1 T-class submarine of the Royal Navy which sank during sea trials in Liverpool Bay, England on 1 June 1939. After being salvaged and repaired, the boat was recommissioned as HMS Thunderbolt in 1940. It served during the Second World War until being lost with all hands in the Mediterranean on 14 March 1943. [1]
This is a list of submarines of World War II, which began with the German invasion of Poland on 1 September 1939 and ended with the surrender of Japan on 2 September 1945. Germany used submarines to devastating effect in the Battle of the Atlantic, where it attempted to cut Britain's supply routes by sinking more merchant ships than Britain ...
By August 1945 a further 178 had been commissioned and 76 had been lost to all causes, the majority of the losses in the Mediterranean. [6] In the Mediterranean (during the Siege of Malta), British U-class submarines began operations against Italy as early as January 1941. Larger submarines began operations in 1940, but after 50% losses per ...
HMS Holland 1, the first submarine to serve in the Royal Navy A-class submarines, the first British-designed class. Holland class. Holland 1, launched: 2 October 1901, decommissioned: 5 November 1913
16 torpedoes. 1 QF 4 inch (100 mm) deck gun. The Royal Navy 's T class (or Triton class) of diesel-electric submarines was designed in the 1930s to replace the O, P, and R classes. Fifty-three members of the class were built just before and during the Second World War, where they played a major role in the Royal Navy's submarine operations.
For submarines sunk in accidents, use British submarine accidents. Pages in category "Lost submarines of the United Kingdom" The following 82 pages are in this category, out of 82 total.
First U-boat lost to an Allied submarine in the war when HMS Salmon sinks U-36 outside Kristiansund in Norway. December 5, 1939. U-47 sinks Navasota from convoy OB 46. [6] December 10, 1939. The first Allied troop convoy TC 1 sets sail from Halifax with 7,400 men of the 1st Canadian Infantry Division.