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All 11 ships in the convoy were sunk. Of those on board, 1,047 of the 1,289 British and Dutch POWs aboard died. 1,047 Military 1944 Japan: Musashi – Sister ship of Yamato, sunk by US aircraft on 24 October in the Battle of Leyte Gulf, with a loss of 1,023 of her crew of 2,399. 1,023 Navy 1942 Germany
This list of ships of the Second World War contains major military vessels of the war, arranged alphabetically and by type. The list includes armed vessels that served during the war and in the immediate aftermath, inclusive of localized ongoing combat operations, garrison surrenders, post-surrender occupation, colony re-occupation, troop and prisoner repatriation, to the end of 1945.
MV Wilhelm Gustloff was a German military transport ship which was sunk on 30 January 1945 by Soviet submarine S-13 in the Baltic Sea while evacuating civilians and military personnel from East Prussia and the German-occupied Baltic states, and German military personnel from Gotenhafen (), as the Red Army advanced.
On the morning of 24 February there was a huge explosion, and the ship sank. Many years later it was revealed that the ship had been torpedoed by the Shchuka-class Shch-213, which had also sunk the Turkish vessel Çankaya the evening before. [22] [23] Struma sank quickly, and many people were trapped below decks and drowned. [24]
World War II submarines of the Soviet Union (5 C, 56 P) Pages in category "World War II naval ships of the Soviet Union" The following 18 pages are in this category, out of 18 total.
St. Louis would earn eleven battle stars for her service in WWII. After the war, the ship was sold to the Brazilian Navy, and sunk in 1980 while being towed to the scrap yard. USS Helena (CL-50) moored in Pearl Harbor when the base came under attack by Japanese carrier planes. She was mistaken for a battleship and targeted by Japanese torpedo ...
The imperial Japanese Navy raised the ship and renamed it Patrol Boat No. 102. Soon, distant sightings of The Stewart led to rumors about an American “ghost ship” operating deep behind enemy ...
On 10 February 1945, S-13 sank another German military transport ship General von Steuben. [7] 3,300 civilians and military personnel from the ship died, and 300 survived. [8] Marinesko was posthumously awarded the title Hero of the Soviet Union in 1990. S-13 was decommissioned on 7 September 1954 and stricken on 17 December 1956.