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Vieniba – A hospital ship that was sunk on 27 June by German aircraft. The ship was evacuating wounded military personnel and refugees from the Latvian port city of Liepaja. More than 800 people were killed; eight survivors reached the coast and another five were picked up by an escort torpedo-boat. 800 Military 1940 United Kingdom
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
SS General von Steuben was a German passenger liner and later an armed transport ship of the German Navy that was sunk in the Baltic Sea during World War II.She was launched in 1923 as München (after the German city, sometimes spelled Muenchen), renamed General von Steuben in 1930 (after the famous German officer of the American Revolutionary War), and renamed Steuben in 1938.
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.