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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.
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]
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 ...
Oxley was the first British submarine lost during the Second World War. [2] When the Admiralty was notified that British Government would declare war on Germany, five submarines of the Second Flotilla, including HMS Triton and HMS Oxley, were ordered to patrol on the Obrestad line off Norway on 24 August 1939. Thus, on 3 September all British ...
HMS Shakespeare (P221) HMS Sickle. HMS Simoom (P225) HMS Snapper (39S) HMS Spearfish. HMS Splendid (P228) HMS Starfish (19S) HMS Sterlet (2S) HMS Stonehenge (P232)
HMS Sea Devil. HMS Sea Nymph (P223) HMS Sea Rover. HMS Sea Scout. HMS Seadog. HMS Seahorse (98S) HMS Seal (N37) HMS Sealion (72S)
The bulk of operations were continued by older, Type VII submarines. The type suffered heavy losses to Allied aircraft, losing 23 in British waters in the last five weeks of the war. Now experiencing a "Happy Time" in reverse, submarines in the Baltic Sea lost 50 of their number, and 83 in total to Allied aircraft. [108]
4 external forward-facing torpedo tubes. 6 reload torpedoes. 1 x 4-inch (102 mm) deck gun. HMS Triumph (N18) was a T-class submarine of the Royal Navy. She was laid down by Vickers at Barrow-in-Furness and launched in 1938. The boat was lost in transit in 1942, with a crew of 64, and its fate was unknown until the sunken boat was rediscovered ...