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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 Laconia incident was a series of events surrounding the sinking of a British passenger ship in the Atlantic Ocean on 12 September 1942, during World War II, and a subsequent aerial attack on German and Italian submarines involved in rescue attempts.
Vittorio Alfieri – On 28 March the Italian destroyer was disabled by British battleships and sunk by HMS Stuart during the Battle of Cape Matapan. Only 35 of her 245 crew survived. 210 Navy 1943 United States: USS Maddox – On 10 July, while on antisubmarine patrol, the US destroyer was attacked by a German dive bomber. One of the bombs ...
List of shipwrecks: 3 September 1939 Ship State Description Athenia United Kingdom World War II: The passenger ship was torpedoed and sunk in the Atlantic Ocean 250 nautical miles (460 km) off the coast of Northern Ireland) by U-30 ( Kriegsmarine) with the loss of 117 of the 1,418 people on
Warships lost with all hands (4 C, 150 P) Pages in category "Ships lost with all hands" The following 200 pages are in this category, out of approximately 300 total.
An Orion-class battleship sunk as a target by British aircraft and warships in Hurd's Deep in the English Channel, about 50 nautical miles (93 km; 58 mi) south of the Isles of Scilly. Ouse United Kingdom: 8 August 1940 A cargo ship that collided with Rye off Newhaven. Rye: 7 April 1917 A cargo ship that was torpedoed by UB-74
At the beginning of the Second World War, the Royal Navy was the strongest navy in the world. It had 20 battleships and battlecruisers ready for service or under construction, twelve aircraft carriers, over 90 light and heavy cruisers, 70 submarines, over 100 destroyers as well as numerous escort ships, minelayers, minesweepers and 232 aircraft.
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.