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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
Although the Soviets enjoyed an overwhelming superiority in surface ships over the Axis, this was effectively negated by German air superiority and most of the Soviet ships sunk were destroyed by bombing. For the majority of the war, the Black Sea Fleet was commanded by Vice Admiral Filipp Oktyabrskiy, its other commander being Lev Vladimirsky.
Much like battlecruisers, battleships typically sank with large loss of life if and when they were destroyed in battle.The first battleship to be sunk by gunfire alone, [4] the Russian battleship Oslyabya, sank with half of her crew at the Battle of Tsushima when the ship was pummeled by a seemingly endless stream of Japanese shells striking the ship repeatedly, killing crew with direct hits ...
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.
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.
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 ...
Ukraine claims it has now disabled a third of Russia’s Black Sea Fleet after its military intelligence said it sank another Russian warship in a sea drone attack off the coast of Crimea on ...
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.