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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 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.
Much like battlecruisers, battleships typically sank with large loss of life if and when they were destroyed in battle.The first battleship to be sunk by gunfire alone, [4] the Russian battleship Oslyabya, sank with half of her crew at the Battle of Tsushima when the ship was pummeled by a seemingly endless stream of Japanese shells striking the ship repeatedly, killing crew with direct hits ...
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 ...
This was the greatest loss of life in a single warship in World War II. 2,498 Navy 1944 Japan: Yoshino Maru – The Japanese troopship, sailing to Borneo in Convoy MI-11, was torpedoed and sunk 280 nautical miles (520 km) north-north west of Cape Mayraira, Luzon by USS Parche: 2,495 Military 1944 Japan
[1] [2] On the British side, Rodney was lightly damaged by near-misses and by the blast effects of her own guns. [3] British warships rescued 110 survivors from Bismarck before being obliged to withdraw because of an apparent U-boat sighting, leaving several hundred men to drown. A U-boat and a German weathership rescued five more survivors.
World War II British torpedo boats (1 P) Pages in category "World War II naval ships of the United Kingdom" The following 43 pages are in this category, out of 43 total.
A British coaster sunk by a German torpedo near Hastings. U-40 Kriegsmarine: 13 October 1939 A German submarine sunk by a mine off Eastbourne. 50°42′N 0°15′E: U-413 Kriegsmarine: 20 August 1944 A German submarine sunk by a mine 15 nautical miles (28 km; 17 mi) south of Brighton. 50°21′N 00°01′W: UC-65 Kriegsmarine: 3 November 1917