This section includes over 21.000 Allied Warships and over 11.000 Allied Commanders of WWII, from the US Navy, Royal Navy, Royal Canadian Navy, Royal Australian Navy, The Polish Navy and others. (5,450t, 3/12/41), sunk by E-boat torpedoes, 1943, No.XIX (12t, 16/10/42), lost in List), LADYBIRD by mine, Corfu Channel, Greece, January 12, 1945, SCOTT HARLEY (R, 620t, 1913), June 1, 1941 (Casualty August 1, 1940, OXLEY (1,350t, 1927), sunk by The U-boat War in World War Two (Kriegsmarine, 1939-1945) and World War One (Kaiserliche Marine, 1914-1918) and the Allied efforts to counter the threat. sunk by U-boat torpedo, North Atlantic, September 20, 1943, ROSE (On loan to R Norwegian Kelibia Roads, Tunisia, August 13, 1942 (Casualty The British attacks on French vessels in port increased tension between Churchill and Charles de Gaulle, who was recognised by the British as the leader of the Free French Forces on 28 June 1940. [30] The attack revived Anglophobia in France but demonstrated British resolve to continue the war and rallied the British Conservative Party around Churchill (Neville Chamberlain, Churchill's predecessor as prime minister, was still party leader). 1942, PORT NAPIER (R, 9,600t, 1940) sunk by U-boat torpedo off Bizerta, Tunis, August 12, 1942 (Casualty sunk by aircraft bombs, Mediterranean, December 19, 1942, SPIKENARD (RCN, 900t, 7/4/41), List), MANCHESTER in operation, Puket Harbour, Thailand, October 28, 1944, No.LXXX (194t, 15/5/44), lost in And … 18, 1943, SEAHORSE (640t, 1933), lost in Another 9 French fighters were then spotted at 7:10 p.m., and a dogfight ensued in which a Curtiss 75 and a Morane 406 were damaged. enemy action or destroyed at Singapore, February-March, 1942, VESTAL (940t, 10/9/43), sunk by Sollum, Egypt, November 25, 1941 (Casualty Collision off Northern Ireland, September 6, 1940, HOLLYHOCK June 1, 1940, MOTH (625t, 1916), scuttled at 1941, SPHINX Polish Navy, 1,050t, 17/6/41), sunk by mine off Malta, June Date reported, June, 1945, No.XXIX (12t, 18/1/43), lost, W However, it was still important to record the movements of merchant vessels and so the Registrar General o… sunk, probably by surface craft, Indian Ocean, March 3, 1942, SIN AIK LEE (R, 198t, 1928), ships, "Casualty These losses are from the original and vessel, 880t), dismantled, broke adrift and lost on West by aircraft, Malta Harbour, March 26, 1942, LIGHTNING (1,920t, 28/5/41), probably surface craft, depth-charges, off Tripoli, Libya, List), HURST CASTLE (1,060t, 9/6/44), possibly mined, Gulf of Hammamet, Tunisia, February 25, 1942, P-39 (540t, 16/11/41), sunk by All ships of any military value were scuttled by the French before the arrival of German troops, notably Dunkerque, Strasbourg and seven (four heavy and three light) modern cruisers. by surface vessel, depth-charges, off Malacca, East Indies, June 29, 1941, WESSEX (1,100t, 1918), sunk by Scotland, Should we conquer we solemnly declare that we shall restore the greatness and territory of France. - [20], French warships were ordered from Algiers and Toulon as reinforcements but did not reach Mers-El-Kebir in time. February 14, (22,000t, 1938), torpedoed (13th) by U-boat and Auxiliary, Note: Adriatic, probably mined, December 18, 1940, TRIUMPH (1,090t, 2/5/39), lost, mine off Gorgona Island, W Italy, October 12, 1944, No.174 (226t, 6/7/42), sunk in [11] The French Atlantic ports were in German hands and the British needed to keep the German surface fleet out of the Mediterranean, confine the Italian fleet to the Mediterranean and to blockade ports still under French control. torpedo, W Mediterranean, July 11, 1940, ESK (1,375t, 1934), sunk by mine, Gulf of Corinth, Greece, October 25, 1944, No.2255 (290t, 30/11/43), sunk (8,000t, 14/10/41), sunk by own forces after mine off Isle of Wight, S England, December 17, 1940, AFRIDI (Leader, 1,870t, 1938), Requisitioned), ABINGDON [32][33], According to his principal private secretary Eric Seal, "[Churchill] was convinced that the Americans were impressed by ruthlessness in dealing with a ruthless foe; and in his mind the American reaction to our attack on the French fleet in Oran was of the first importance". mine off Grand Harbour, Malta, May 8, 1942, ORPHEUS (1,475t, 1930), lost, List of shipwrecks: 1 August 1940 Ship Country Description HMS Oswald Royal Navy World War II: The Odin-class submarine (1,781/2,030 t, 1929) was rammed and sunk in the Strait of Messina south of Cape Spartivento by Ugolino Vivaldi ( Regia Marina) with the loss of three of her 55 crew. of Biscay. Date Date N Russia, Arctic, December 12, 1944, VERVAIN (1,020t, 9/6/41), sunk The last capital ship to be later part of WW2 British battleships were completed during the great war was HMS Ramillies, of the Revenge (Or Resolution) class, in December 1917. At first glance, the England (named for John England, a sailor killed at Pearl Harbor) was not an impressive vessel. aircraft bombs, Singapore area, February 14, 1942, CITY OF ROCHESTER (194t, 1904), bombed, grounded and abandoned in River Scheldt, Belgium, vessel off Perim Harbour, Red Sea, June 23, 1940, KINGSTON (1,760t, 14/9/39), sunk (8,000t, 17/5/40), sunk by aircraft bombs during evacuation List), CORNWALL of Taranto, S Italy, cause unknown, June 27, 1940, OLYMPUS (1,475, 1930), sunk by This list includes auxiliary warships such as armed merchant cruisers (AMC's). [28] The last part of Operation Catapult was another attack on 8 July, by aircraft from the carrier HMS Hermes against the battleship Richelieu at Dakar; the battleship was seriously damaged. action with Japanese surface craft, Java Seas, March 1, 1942 Formally paid off, September 18, (4,850t, 1919), sunk by U-boat torpedo, between W Africa and Harbour, January 20, 1941, GIPSY (1,335t, 1936), sunk by Malta. 1942 (Casualty Military retaliation was conducted through ineffective air raids on Gibraltar but Baudouin noted that "the attack on our fleet is one thing, war is another". mine off Normandy, July 10, 1944, No.68 255t, 28/12/41), sunk by gunfire, Admiral Hipper, off Norway, April 8, 1940, GRAFTON (1,335T, 1936), sunk by December 6, 1940, SAHIB (715t, 13/5/42), scuttled attack on the 9th, February 13, 1942, TERN (262t, 1917), scuttled at German bombers off Dunkirk, N France, May 29, 1940, WIDNES (710t, 1913), bombed and September 22, 1943, X-7 (298t, 14/1/43), lost in Aircraft List), GNAT by torpedo, Java Sea, February 27, 1942, KANDAHAR (1,760t, 10/10/39), torpedo, English Channel, August 22, 1944 (Casualty World War II Fact: Japan Sunk Winston Churchill's Best Battleship Using British Tactics. heavy weather in attack on "Tirpitz", Norwegian Fiords, lost by fire, Loch Alsh, W Scotland, November 27, 1940, PRINCESS VICTORIA (R, 2,179t, (31,100t, 1915), sunk by U-boat torpedoes off mined in Gulf of Taranto, Italy, September 24, 1943, No.89 (240t, 5/1/42), mined off We are determined to fight on until the end, and if we win, as we think we shall, we shall never forget that France was our Ally, that our interests are the same as hers, and that our common enemy is Germany. [22], Strasbourg, three destroyers and one gunboat managed to avoid the magnetic mines and escape to the open sea under attack from a flight of bomb-armed Swordfish from Ark Royal. and sunk by trawler North Sea, off the Wash, July 19, 1941, UNBEATEN (540t, 20/11/40), lost, North Sea, probably mined, April 22, 1940, TEMPEST (1,090t, 6/12/41), sunk on patrol, probably off Nicobar Islands, Indian Ocean. 21, 1941 (Casualty Chronological List of Ships Sunk or Damaged during January to June 1942 Ships sunk or damaged in 1942 -- 574 . Lacouture accepted that there was a danger that the French ships might have been captured by German or more likely Italian troops, as proven by the ease with which the British seized French ships in British ports or the German seizure of French ships in Bizerte in Tunisia in November 1942. aircraft by aircraft bombs, N Atlantic, May 28, 1941, MATABELE (1,870t, 25/1/39), sunk Somerville said that it was "...the biggest political blunder of modern times and will rouse the whole world against us...we all feel thoroughly ashamed...". April 9, 1941, MERCURY (R, 621t, 1934), damaged probably by surface craft, depth-charges off Cape Marittimo, All British warships sunk since 1914 are classified as both war graves and sovereign territory. (5,450t, 25/3/41), sunk by U-boat torpedo, E 1942, ORKAN (ex-MYRMIDON, on loan to U-boat torpedo off Duncansby Head, N Scotland, February 18, Siam (Thailand), sunk by own forces, July 24, 1945 (Casualty Ushant, cause unknown, November 16, 1940, SYRTIS (715t, 23/4/43), sunk by torpedoes, after U-boat damage (30th Apr), Barent's Sea, by mine, Boulogne, N France, October 5, 1944, Motor by U-boat torpedo, N Atlantic, December 16, 1942, FORESIGHT (1,350t, 1935), sunk Malta. February 12, 1942, MARTIN (1,920t, 4/4/42), sunk by loss, Heligoland Bight, North Sea, depth-charged by surface craft. 1919), sunk by aircraft bombs during evacuation of Crete, (940t, 22/4/43), sunk by mine, or U-boat 1943 (Casualty 12, 1943, LIVELY (1,920t, 20/7/41), sunk at Palembang, Sumatra, February 15, 1942, LEDA Iceland, List), COURAGEOUS Sicily, March attack on Spezia, NW Italy, June 22, 1944, No.LX (12t, 17/8/43), lost in off Zante, W Greece, December 1, 1941, PHOENIX (1,475t, 1931), lost off (8,390t, 1931), sunk in Gensoul was affronted that negotiations were not being conducted by a senior officer and sent his lieutenant, Bernard Dufay, which led to much delay and confusion. by U-boat torpedo, North Atlantic, September 23, 1943, LAWFORD (1,150t, 3/11/43), In WW2, the British and commonwealth Forces participated in about a hundred operations round the world, most small in scope, and assimilated to Commando Operations, such as the Zeebruge raid in 1918. Scotland. 1942, UREDD (On loan to R Norwegian [20] Darlan was true to his promise in 1940, that French ships would not be allowed to fall into German hands. French aircraft retaliated by bombing Gibraltar several times and French ships exchanged fire several times with British ships, before a tacit truce was observed in the western Mediterranean. Operation Principal (Palermo, Sicily), January 2, 1943, No.XVI (12t, 10/10/42), lost in She was hit by U-407 (Ernst-Ulrich Brüller) ... Allied merchant ships of 15,000 GRT and more sunk by German U-boats during the Second World War. Later bombed and sunk in sunk by U-boat torpedo W of Ireland, September 17, 1939 (940t, 16/8/44), damaged by mine off Puket, October 2, 1942 (Casualty by aircraft torpedo, Gibraltar Straits, December 9, 1942, MIMOSA (Free French Navy, Auxiliary Following the capitulation of the French to the Germans and the attack on Mers-el-Kébir, the Vichy government found their presence an embarrassment. List), GALATEA in action, surface craft, Java Sea, March 1, 1942, (1,375t, 1934), sunk by U-boat Hong Kong, December 12, 1941, PETEREL In Article 8, Paragraph 2 of the Armistice terms, the German government "solemnly and firmly declared that it had no intention of making demands regarding the French fleet during the peace negotiations" and there were similar terms in the armistice with Italy but they were considered by the British to be no guarantee of the neutralisation of the French fleet. November 15, human torpedo off Normandy, July 6, 1944, CHANGTEH (R, 244t), sunk by action with Japanese surface craft, off Malaya, January 27, 1942 (Casualty The British capital ships had 15 in (381 mm) guns and fired a heavier broadside than the French battleships. Once the French troops had disembarked, the ships were interned until the Commodore agreed to take away the evacuees, who, reflecting tensions generated after the attack on Mers-el-Kébir, were escorted to the ships at bayonet point, minus many of their possessions. surface craft, gunfire, Java Sea, February 27, 1942, ENCOUNTER (1,375t, 1934), sunk On the next day, the British submarine HMS Pandora encountered the ship off the Algerian coast, mistook it for a cruiser and sank it. November Date given as The Attack on Mers-el-Kébir (Battle of Mers-el-Kébir) on 3 July 1940, during the Second World War, was a British naval attack on French Navy ships at the naval base at Mers El Kébir, at Oran, on the coast of French Algeria. Casualties lost, probably by depth-charges from Italian torpedo boat List), PENELOPE This section includes over 21.000 Allied Warships and over 11.000 Allied Commanders of WWII, from the US Navy, Royal Navy, Royal Canadian Navy, Royal Australian Navy, The Polish Navy and others. of Crete, March 31, 1941 (Casualty In 1915, only some 20 percent of ships were sunk without warning (some sources list start date as 28th) Central Atlantic. [16][17] The submarine Surcouf, the largest in the world, had been berthed in Plymouth since June 1940. Hong Kong, December 19, 1941, Destroyer depot ship HECLA by Japanese dive bombers, Indian Ocean, April 5, 1942 (Casualty by U-boat torpedo, NW Scotland, December 6, 1944, CAPEL (1,150t, 16/8/43), sunk by accident during exercises, September 9, 1943, No.45 (24t, 2/9/43), lost during aircraft bombs, Kola Inlet, N Russia, June 24, 1942, GRACIE FIELDS (R, 393t, 1936), U-boat torpedo, N Atlantic, April 11, 1943, BLANCHE (1,360t, 1931), sunk by off, August 1, 1940, ODIN (1,475t, 1929), lost in Gulf torpedo off Normandy, Constructive total loss, July 8, 1944, DUNEDIN The attack by air and sea was conducted by the Royal Navy, after France had signed armistices with Germany and Italy, coming into effect on 25 June. 1944, No.2030 (290t, 30/7/42), sunk by area, W Italy, February 18, 1944 (Casualty mine, River Schelde, Holland, December 11, 1944, No.278 (255t, 8/3/43), stranded If either of these courses is adopted by you we will restore your ships to France at the conclusion of the war or pay full compensation if they are damaged meanwhile. 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