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Pinguin – A German auxiliary cruiser which served as a commerce raider in World War II that captured or sunk 32 ships. On 8 May she was sunk in a battle with HMS Cornwall in the Indian Ocean. Of 401 crew, 341 were lost along with 214 of the 238 prisoners aboard. 555 1942 Italy
Both ships were completed with a modernized post WW II design and commissioned into Dutch service in 1953. KB Dalmacija was a WW1 Imperial Germany light cruiser (SMS Niobe), sold to Yugoslavia in 1925 (KB Dalmacija), captured by Italy in 1941 (RN Cattaro), then by Germany following the Italian Armistice in 1943 and renamed Niobe. She was sunk ...
Pages in category "Ships sunk by German submarines in World War II" The following 200 pages are in this category, out of approximately 496 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. (previous page) .
Cargo ship serving as POW ship Italy: 14 November 1942: HMS Sahib United Kingdom: 865 [41] Arandora Star: Ocean liner serving as POW ship United Kingdom: 2 July 1940: U-47 Germany: 862 [42] HMS Barham: Battleship United Kingdom: 25 November 1941: U-331 Germany: 856 [43] Nova Scotia: Troopship/POW ship United Kingdom: 28 November 1942: U-177 ...
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.
This is a list of submarines of World War II, which began with the German invasion of Poland on 1 September 1939 and ended with the surrender of Japan on 2 September 1945. Germany used submarines to devastating effect in the Battle of the Atlantic , where it attempted to cut Britain's supply routes by sinking more merchant ships than Britain ...
Fate: Sunk 8 October 1939 after a mine hit near Dover in the English Channel; The wrecksite of U-12 is designated as a protected place under the Protection of Military Remains Act. U-12 was the vessel nominated by the German authorities to represent all U-boats sunk in British waters in the second world war.
Germany: World War II: The factory ship was sunk at Gotenhafen by Royal Air Force aircraft with the loss of 25 lives. She had been refloated by May 1945. [10] [135] Waldemar Kophamel Kriegsmarine: World War II: The submarine tender was bombed and sunk by aircraft off the German coast. Raised in 1950 and transferred to the Soviet Union in 1951 ...