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Malaya's second big action of her career, and her first of World War II, was the Battle of Calabria, on 9 June 1940. British forces engaged an Italian fleet, including the battleships Conte di Cavour and Giulio Cesare. Malaya fired several main battery rounds against the Italians while under fire from Conte di Cavour. [21]
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.
Operation Grog was the name assigned to the British naval and air bombardment of Genoa and La Spezia on 9 February 1941, by the Royal Navy's Force H, consisting of the battleship HMS Malaya, aircraft carrier HMS Ark Royal, battlecruiser HMS Renown, and light cruiser HMS Sheffield screened by ten fleet destroyers including HMS Fearless, HMS Foxhound, HMS Foresight, HMS Fury, HMS Firedrake and ...
The United States declared its intent to deploy modern battleships to the Atlantic at the Atlantic Conference in early August; this would make a King George V-class ship available. [21] Pound favoured keeping the King George Vs in Britain. [22] Pound proposed basing the Nelsons, the battlecruiser HMS Renown, and an aircraft carrier at
Given the speed of the new ships, envisaged as 25 knots (46 km/h; 29 mph), it was decided that the battlecruiser would not be needed and a fourth battleship would be built instead. When the Federation of Malay States offered to fund a further capital ship, the Admiralty decided to add a fifth unit to the class, HMS Malaya. [8]
Hits on capital ships, 15:48-16:54. HMS Lion. Hits on British ships Ship 12-inch 11-inch Total Note Lion: 9 0 9 ... Malaya: 7 0 7 Total 15 3 18 Hits on German ships
Hide (1940) — movements by Force H to cover convoy and escort HMS Malaya to Gibraltar (linked to Operation MC2) Seek (1940) — anti-submarine sweep ahead of Hide; Hurry (1940) — delivery of 12 Hurricanes to Malta from HMS Argus. Spark (1940) — diversionary radio transmissions by HMS Enterprise; Husky (1943) — Allied invasion of Sicily
The convoy consisted of about 90 ships, [3] which included two battleships, HMS Nelson and the French battleship Richelieu. [10] The heavy cruiser HMS Sussex served as the flagship. [11] HMAS Hawkesbury was the sole Australian warship during the Japanese surrender, escorting the repatriation transport Duntroon. [12]