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Chiyoda – sunk with her entire crew of around 1,470, possibly the largest vessel to be lost with all hands in World War II. 1,470 Navy 1941 United Kingdom: HMS Hood – The battlecruiser was attacked and sunk by the German battleship Bismarck on 24 May. Of the 1,418 crew aboard, three survived. [9] 1,415 Navy 1944 Japan
Lost after 8 April 1945: Possibly sunk by kaibokan Okinawa, CD-8, CD-32, and CD-52 with a 951st Kōkūtai E13A1 Jake and Q1W1 Lorna. Swordfish: SS-193 Sargo class: Ryukyu Islands: Lost about 12 January 1945: Fate unknown: possibly lost to mines or sunk by kaibokan CD-4. Tang: SS-306 Balao class: Formosa Strait: 25 October 1944: Sunk by circular ...
The ship was knocked out of the war and although repaired, she did not see active service after World War II. She was scrapped in 1973. USS Wasp (CV-18), on 19 March 1945, was hit with a 500 lb armor-piercing bomb which penetrated both the flight and hangar decks, then exploded in the crew's galley. Many of her shipmates were having breakfast ...
U-boat Sunk by aircraft Sunk by warship or raider Sunk by mines Total Allied shipping sunk German 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
The Torpedo Alley, or Torpedo Junction, off North Carolina, is one of the graveyards of the Atlantic Ocean, named for the high number of attacks on Allied shipping by German U-boats in World War II. Almost 400 ships were sunk, mostly during the Second Happy Time in 1942, and over 5,000 people were killed, many of whom were civilians and ...
The Q/No. 114-class motor torpedo boat was lost in 1944 or 1945. Gyoraitei No. 116, and Gyoraitei No. 117 Imperial Japanese Navy: The TM 4/No. 102-class motor torpedo boats were lost in 1944 at or near Rabaul. [3] Gyoraitei No. 233 Imperial Japanese Navy: The Gyoraitei No. 31-class motor torpedo boat was lost in 1944 or 1945. Gyoraitei No. 428
Finally, five U-boats were sunk attacking convoy SC 130, with Admiral Dönitz's son Peter among those lost aboard U-954, while no convoy ships were lost. [ 4 ] Total Allied losses in May were 58 ships of 299,000 long tons (304,000 t), of which 34 (134,000 long tons (136,000 t)) were lost in the Atlantic.
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.