LOSSES BY YEAR and AREA
|
Year |
Atlantic |
Europe |
Mediterranean |
Far East |
|
1939 |
-
|
battleship Royal Oak |
-
|
-
|
|
1940
|
-
|
-
|
-
|
-
|
|
1941 |
battlecruiser
Hood
|
-
|
battleship
Barham
|
battleship Prince of Wales
battlecruiser
Repulse
|
BATTLESHIPS
1. Queen Elizabeth class,
BARHAM,
MALAYA,
QUEEN ELIZABETH,
VALIANT,
WARSPITE, 5 ships - 31,000 tons, 24
knots, 8-15in, 1,120 crew, 1915-16, 1 lost:
BARHAM
(Capt
G C Cooke+), 25th November 1941, Eastern Mediterranean, N of Sidi Barrani
(32.34N, 26.24E) - torpedoed by German ‘U.331’ (Tiesenhausen). Sailing with
Mediterranean Fleet as Force A from Alexandria to cover sorties by Malta and
Alexandria-based cruiser forces against Italian convoys heading for Libya. Turned
over and exploded with 865 men lost and some 450 survivors
(Casualty
List) (Mediterranean
- North African
Campaign)
HMS Queen Elizabeth (Maritime Quest)
2. Royal Sovereign class,
RAMILLIES,
RESOLUTION,
REVENGE,
ROYAL OAK,
ROYAL SOVEREIGN, 5 ships - 29,000
tons, 21 knots, 8-15in, 1,150 crew, 1916-17. 'Royal Sovereign' loaned to Russia
in 1944 as 'Arkangelsk, 1 lost:
ROYAL OAK
(Capt W H Benn+), 14th
October 1939, Western Europe at Scapa Flow, Orkney Islands, north of Scotland
(58.55N, 02.59W) – torpedoed by German ‘U.47’ (Prien). Detached from Home Fleet
to guard Fair Isle passage during sortie of German battlecruiser 'Gneisenau'.
Afterwards at anchor in the NE corner of Scapa Flow, one mile
offshore when torpedoed with 833 men dead. She still lies at the
bottom of Scapa Flow as a War Grave
(Casualty List) (Home Fleet Operations)
HMS Ramillies (Maritime Quest)
3. Nelson class,
NELSON,
RODNEY, 2 ships (both survived) - 34,000 tons, 23 knots, 9-16in, 1,300 crew,
1927
4.
King George V class,
ANSON,
DUKE OF YORK,
HOWE,
KING GEORGE V,
PRINCE OF WALES, 5 ships - 35,000
tons, 29 knots, 10-14in, 1,550 crew, 1940-42, 1 lost:
PRINCE OF
WALES
(Capt J C Leach+), 10th December 1941, South East Asia, off Kuantan,
Malaya in the South China Sea (03.34N, 104.27E) - as many as 5 or 6 torpedoes
from Japanese Navy land-based aircraft (Nells and Bettys).
Flagship of Adm Sir
Tom Phillips, returning to Singapore with battlecruiser 'Repulse' (also sunk)
from planned attacked against reported Malay landings. Went down at 1323 local
time; 330 crew lost, 1,285 survivors of whom 3 died of wounds. Destroyers
rescued the survivors. (Casualty
List) (Japanese
Conquests - Sinking of Force Z)
HMS Anson (CyberHeritage)
BATTLECRUISERS
5. Repulse class,
RENOWN,
REPULSE, 2 ships - 32,000 tons, 29 knots, 6-15in, 1,200 crew, 1916, 1 lost:
REPULSE
(Capt
W G Tennant), 10th December 1941. As for 'Prince of Wales' but hit by 5
torpedoes; 512 crew lost, 796 saved but 3 died of wounds
(Casualty List)
(Japanese Conquests
- Sinking of Force Z)
HMS Repulse (Maritime
Quest)
6.
HOOD - 42,000 tons, 31
knots, 8-15in, 1,350 crew, 1920, lost
HOOD
(Capt
R Kerr+), 24th May 1941, North Atlantic, west of Iceland in Denmark Strait
(63.21N, 32.47W) - by 15in gunfire of German battleship 'Bismarck'. Sailing
with 'Prince of Wales' to intercept 'Bismarck' during her planned
commerce-raiding sortie into the Atlantic. 'Hood' exploded and broke in two, 1,415
crew lost and only 3 men rescued. ‘Bismarck’
was sunk three days later (Casualty
List) (Battle of
the Atlantic - Hunt for the 'Bismarck')
HMS Hood (Maritime Quest)
MONITORS
7. Marshall Ney class,
MARSHALL SOULT, 1 ship - 6,700 tons, 9 knots, 2-15in, 190 crew, comp 1915.
Disarmed 1940, base ship.
8. Erebus class,
EREBUS,
TERROR, 2 ships - 8,000 tons, 12 knots, 2-15in, 190 crew, comp 1915, 1 lost:
TERROR
(Cdr
H J Haynes), 24th February 1941, Eastern Mediterranean, off Derna, Cyrenaica -
German bombers. Bombed by Ju.87 divebombers on the 22nd in Benghazi harbour and
damaged by near misses. Sank off Derna on the 24th on tow to Alexandria. There
were no casualties
(Mediterranean - North African Campaign)
HMS Erebus (NavyPhotos)
9. Roberts class,
ROBERTS,
ABERCROMBIE, 2 ships - 8,000 tons, 12 knots, 2-15in, 450 crew, comp 1941/43
HMS Abercrombie (NavyPhotos)
