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Unfortunately commercial salvage divers had discovered Pope previously and save for a skeleton, little now remains of her wreck. [5] With her location/identification now being finally confirmed, all ships lost during the Battle of the Java Sea and subsequent engagements have now been discovered/located and positively identified.
The Second Battle of the Java Sea was the last naval action of the Netherlands East Indies campaign, of 1941–42. It occurred on 1 March 1942, two days after the first Battle of the Java Sea . It saw the end of the last Allied warships operating in the waters around Java , allowing Japanese forces to complete their conquest of the Dutch East ...
The Second Battle of the Java Sea was fought, resulting in Japanese victory. The cruiser HMS Exeter and the destroyers HMS Encounter and USS Pope were sunk. The Battle of Sunda Strait ended in Japanese victory. The Allies lost 1 heavy cruiser, 1 light cruiser and 1 destroyer while the Japanese lost 1 minelayer and 4 troopships sunk or grounded.
HNLMS Kortenaer: Dutch destroyer sunk by torpedo fired by heavy cruiser Haguro during Battle of the Java Sea. [2] HNLMS O 20: Dutch submarine sunk 19 December 1941 by destroyer Uranami. [9] HNLMS Piet Hein: Dutch destroyer torpedoed and sunk by destroyer Asashio during the battle of Badung Strait, February 19 1942.
The Battle of the Java Sea (Indonesian: Pertempuran Laut Jawa, Japanese: スラバヤ沖海戦, romanized: Surabaya oki kaisen, lit. 'Surabaya open-sea battle') was a decisive [2] naval battle of the Pacific campaign of World War II.
After participating in the invasion of eastern Java, Yamakaze engaged a group of Allied destroyers during the Battle of the Java Sea, and was credited with assisting in the sinking of the American destroyer USS Pope, the British cruiser HMS Exeter and destroyer HMS Encounter.
1 March Second Battle of the Java Sea – Continuation of the Battle of the Java Sea, Japanese force sinks HMS Exeter, HMS Encounter, and USS Pope; 1 March Battle of the Bali Strait – Continuation of the Battle of the Java Sea, four surviving American destroyers skirmish with the Japanese, but escape to Australia
On February 18, De Ruyter departed the Java coast alongside the light cruiser HNLMS Java and the destroyers USS Pope, USS John D. Ford, and HNLMS Piet Hein in another attempt to disrupt Japanese troop convoys destined to Bali Indonesia consisting of two troop transports escorted by four destroyers of the Asashio class which was spotted by ...