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The exploding torpedo set off the ship's ammunition and within a few minutes the cruiser sank along with her entire crew of 597. She was the first Russian warship sunk in World War I. 597 Navy 1914 Germany: SMS Gneisenau – A sister ship of SMS Scharnhorst, she was sunk in the same battle as her sister, by British cruisers, taking 596 men with ...
The Fairfield Shipbuilding and Engineering Company of Govan in Glasgow built Athenia, launching her on 28 January 1922 and completing her in 1923.She measured 13,465 gross register tons (GRT) and 8,118 net register tons (NRT), was 526.3 ft (160.4 m) long between perpendiculars by 66.4 ft (20.2 m) beam and had a depth of 38.1 ft (11.6 m).
Sunk as target ship 1 November 1920, sold for scrap 19 March 1924 Iowa: pre-dreadnought: 11,590 16 June 1897 31 March 1919 Sunk as target ship 23 March 1923 Implacable Royal Navy: Formidable: pre-dreadnought: 14,700 10 September 1901 4 February 1920 Sold for scrap 8 November 1921 Iron Duke: Iron Duke: super-dreadnought: 25,400 10 March 1914 17 ...
Largest ships hit by U-boats in World War I [7] Ship Type Nationality [Note 1] Tons Date U-boat Commander Notes HMHS Britannic: Hospital ship Royal Navy: 48,758 21 November 1916: U-73: Gustav Sieß Sunk by Mine Justicia [a] Troop ship United Kingdom: 32,234 19 July 1918: UB-64: Otto von Schrader: Damaged, taken under tow Justicia: Troop ship ...
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 ...
E15 (destroyed on April 19) E20 (torpedoed and sunk on November 5) Other Beryl (Trawler / minesweeper) Canning (Kite balloon ship) Egmont (Ironclad, formerly Achilles) Guildford Castle (Hospital ship) Hector (Kite balloon ship) Heroic (Armed Boarding Steamer) [3] Manica (Kite balloon ship) Triad
Naval warfare in World War I was mainly characterised by blockade. The Allied powers, with their larger fleets and surrounding position, largely succeeded in their blockade of Germany and the other Central Powers, whilst the efforts of the Central Powers to break that blockade, or to establish an effective counter blockade with submarines and commerce raiders, were eventually unsuccessful.
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