The first major German warship sunk in WW2 was the "pocket battleship" Admiral Graf Spee, scuttled by her crew outside Montevideo, Uruguay on 17 December 1939.
The HMAS Sydney was involved in a mutually destructive engagement with the German auxiliary cruiser Komoran on November 19, 1941.
Unless sunk for target practice (meaning there's no bodies in them); all sunken warships are WAR GRAVES! Diving in a sunken "warship" (battle sunk) is walking the grey line between "pleasure diving" and "grave robbing."
There are a few German warships from world war I that could aspire on the role as "Most famous", my guess would be the battlecruise "Göben" or "Goeben" in English for the gauntlet that she and the light cruiser "Breslau" were running in the Mediterranean Sea in 1914Or it could be the cruiser "Emden", sunk of Christmas Island by the Australian cruiser "Sydney"
Lusitania was not a warship, it was actually sunk by enemy action, and civilians were on board. It was also sunk after a warning had been given.
The British warship that was sunk during the Vietnam War was HMS Coventry. It was a Royal Navy destroyer that was attacked and sunk by Argentine aircraft during the Falklands War in 1982, not the Vietnam War. However, the British did not lose any warships during the Vietnam War, as they were not directly involved in that conflict.
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The HMAS Sydney was involved in a mutually destructive engagement with the German auxiliary cruiser Komoran on November 19, 1941.
It got sunk because the bismark sunk the flag ship of the royal navy,(Hood), the british then sent every war ship available to sink bismark. At 9.00am on the 21st of may, the bismark was sunk by the british ships.
Battlecruiser DKM Schornhorst (actually went down fighting). Bismarck and Graf Spee both committed suicide (sunk themselves/scuttled).
The US destroyer Reuben James was sunk on October 31 , 1941, but it was by a German U-boat near Iceland. It was the first US warship sunk in World war II, this coming some five weeks before Pearl Harbor and a declaration of war against Japan and Germany.
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Clement
after the German u-boat sunk the lusitana which sunk 128 Americans
It was a warship not a cargoship.
The Loralie was a German warship during World War II, specifically a torpedo boat that served in the Kriegsmarine. It was launched in 1941 and participated in various naval operations. However, it was sunk in 1945 during the conflict, primarily due to air attacks and the deteriorating situation for German naval forces as the war came to an end. The specific details of its sinking remain less documented compared to larger ships of the era.
Unless sunk for target practice (meaning there's no bodies in them); all sunken warships are WAR GRAVES! Diving in a sunken "warship" (battle sunk) is walking the grey line between "pleasure diving" and "grave robbing."
Launched in 1939, the Bismarck was one of Germany's two largest warships ever built. It was sunk in May of 1941 in the North Atlantic.