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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
A206 Vinnytsia – In June 2022, footage emerged showing the Grisha II-class ship sunk at moorings, after a Russian attack on 24 February 2022. [93] [94] The ship had previously been converted to an auxiliary ship in 2018 and decommissioned in 2021. Eight unidentified vessels were claimed, on 26 February 2022, as destroyed by Russian forces. [95]
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.
On 6 October, Soviet submarine ShCh-407 torpedoed and sunk German merchant Nordstern (1127 GRT) west of Klaipeda. [4]On 8 October, Soviet submarine ShCh-310 torpedoed and sunk the German dredger Bagger 3 (400 GRT) and shortly later torpedoed and sunk the German transport ship Ro-24(4499 GRT), west of Ventspils.
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.
Petropavlovsk was hit once (credited by Hans-Ulrich Rudel), suffering serious damage, [24] and sunk. The Soviet Navy raised the ship on 17 September 1942 and towed her to the Neva where she was repaired. [6] Renamed Tallinn in 1943, the ship returned to service to support the Soviet counter-offensive to relieve the Siege of Leningrad in 1944 ...
Targeting of cargo ships in Black Sea shows ‘Putin’s total disregard for civilian lives’, UK says Ukraine-Russia war - live: Putin ‘may use sea mines to attack civilian ships and blame Kyiv’
A Northern Saga, a 1976 novel written by Steven C. Lawrence, a World War II U.S. Merchant Marine officer, recounts the story of PQ-17. Requiem for Convoy PQ-17, a novel by Valentin Pikul is dedicated to the fate of the convoy. The book is also interesting since it describes the Soviet belief that Soviet submarine K-21 hit the Tirpitz. From 2003 ...