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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. See also List of ships of the Royal Navy.
The British also converted all three of their "light battlecruisers" into aircraft carriers even though they were not subject to the treaty. The Japanese rebuilt their four remaining battlecruisers into fast battleships during the 1930s. World War II took a heavy toll on the remaining battlecruisers, both converted and unconverted. In contrast ...
The British Fleet air arm in World War II. Oxford: Osprey. ISBN 9781846032837. Barnett, Correlli (1991). Engage the Enemy more Closely: the Royal Navy in the Second World War. New York City: W. W. Norton & Company. ISBN 0-393-02918-2. Brown, Kevin (2019). Fittest of the Fit Health and Morale in the Royal Navy, 1939–1945. Barnsley: Pen & Sword.
The sinking of Prince of Wales and Repulse was a naval engagement in World War II, as part of the war in the Pacific, that took place on 10 December 1941 in the South China Sea off the east coast of the British colonies of Malaya (present-day Malaysia) and the Straits Settlements (present-day Singapore and its coastal towns), 70 miles (61 nautical miles; 110 kilometres) east of Kuantan, Pahang.
The third phase on the morning of 27 May was an attack by the British battleships King George V and Rodney, supported by the heavy cruisers Norfolk and Dorsetshire. After about 100 minutes of fighting, Bismarck was sunk by the combined effects of shellfire, torpedo hits and deliberate scuttling.
Shinano is the largest-ever warship ever sunk solely by a submarine in naval history. 1,435 Navy 1943 Japan: Tatsuta Maru – On 8 February the Japanese troopship was torpedoed and sunk by the USS Tarpon 42 miles east of Mikurajima. Some 1,223 passengers and 198 crew members aboard were killed. [11] 1,421 Military 1943 Italy
British Motor Gun Boat 1939-45. Osprey Publishing Limited. ISBN 978-1-84908-077-4. Lenton, H. T.; Colledge, J.J. (1968). British and Dominion Warships of World War II. Garden City, New York: Doubleday and Company. Lenton, H. Trevor (1998). British and Empire Warships of the Second World War. Greenhill Books. ISBN 1-85367-277-7. March, Edgar J ...
The Battle of the Atlantic, the longest continuous military campaign [11] [12] in World War II, ran from 1939 to the defeat of Nazi Germany in 1945, covering a major part of the naval history of World War II. At its core was the Allied naval blockade of Germany, announced the day after the declaration of war, and Germany's subsequent counter ...