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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.
Repulse and her sister ship Renown were the world's fastest capital ships upon completion. Repulse participated in the Second Battle of Heligoland Bight in 1917, the only combat she saw during the war. She was reconstructed twice between the wars; a reconstruction in the 1920s increased her armour protection and made lesser improvements, while ...
HMS Prince of Wales – On 10 December, three days after Pearl Harbor, the British battleship was sent to intercept Japanese landings in Malaya but was sunk by Japanese aircraft based in Saigon along with the battlecruiser Repulse. Of the 1,521 aboard Prince of Wales 327 were killed, along with 513 on Repulse.
Force Z was a British naval squadron during the Second World War, consisting of the battleship HMS Prince of Wales, the battlecruiser HMS Repulse and accompanying destroyers. Assembled in 1941, the purpose of the group was to reinforce the British colonial garrisons in the Far East and deter Japanese expansion into British possessions ...
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.
[76] [h] From 27 to 30 January, another 48 Hurricanes arrived on the aircraft carrier HMS Indomitable. [77] Operated by the four squadrons of No. 226 Group RAF , they flew from an airfield code-named P1, near Palembang , Sumatra in the Dutch East Indies, while a flight was maintained in Singapore. [ 78 ]
Tennant subsequently served as captain of the battlecruiser HMS Repulse, when she searched for German capital ships in the Atlantic. He remained in this capacity when the Repulse was sunk by the Japanese along with HMS Prince of Wales in the South China Sea on 10 December 1941, three days after the attack on Pearl Harbor.
Dumaresq Commanded HMS Repulse in the center under Admiral Sir George Rodney. His crew, what is described by Edward Fraser as "smart set of Guernsey lads" would suffer 3 deaths and 11 wounded. [ 8 ] [ 9 ] In the aftermath of the Battle of the Saintes Dumaresq, now in command of HMS Alfred would take part of the Battle of the Mona Passage under ...