The German battleship Bismarck was sunk at about 10:30 am on the 27th of May in 1941 by combined efforts from Royal Navy air and water craft.
Other vessels sunk by the Royal Navy in 1941 were:
The German submarine U-147 was sunk at about 10:30 am on the 27th of May in 1941 by destroyer HMS Wanderer and corvette Periwinkle
The German submarine U-556 was sunk on the 27 June in 1941 by corvettes Nasturtium, Celandine, and Gladiolus.
The German submarine U-138 was sunk on the 18th of June in 1941 by destroyers HMS Faulknor, HMS Fearless, HMS Forester, HMS Foresight and HMS Foxhound
The most famous RN battleship sunk in WWII was the HMS Hood, sunk by the German battleship Bismarck in May 1941 in the Denmark Strait, one of several ships including the HMS Prince of Wales, trying to prevent the Bismarck from escaping to the open Atlantic to do damage to merchant shipping vital to the war effort. This was just prior to the famous battle in which WWI biplane torpedo planes from the carrier HMS Ark Royal disabled the Bismarck's rudder, allowing British battleship King George V and other RN ships to catch up and finally sink her.
The battleship Royal Oak, a WWI battleship, was sunk in 1939 by a German U-boat in another famous attack at the Royal Navy base at Scapa Flow. The ship was at anchor in Scapa Bay when it was attacked by the U-47. It was one of the more famous attacks of the war by the Germans as the approach is very shallow - between 70-160' deep, not much room for a submarine.
HMS Barham, sunk by U-331 November 25, 1941 in the Mediterranean.
HMS Repulse, sunk by Japanese aircraft December 10, 1941 near Singapore.
HMS Prince of Wales, sunk by Japanese aircraft December 10, 1941, near Singapore. Damaged by Bismarck in the exchange which sank the Hood.
HMS Centurion - scuttled off the Normandy beaches, June 9,1944.
Partial reference: http://www.hazegray.org/navhist/battleships/rn_dr.htm
The Royal Navy lost the battleship HMS Prince of Wales and the battlecruiser HMS Repulse to Japanese airplanes on 10 December 1941.
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27th May 1941
It sank on the 7th December 1941
The Vasa was a Swedish navy ship that sank on August 10, 1628.
Because Japan tried to sink its navy at Pearl harbour on December 7, 1941
wierd question. Do you mean The British Navy have 20 ships or we will ship your goods tomorrow either way its ship. DO NOT call a submarine a ship as the commander will sink you, its a boat. DO NOT call a ship a boat or the captain will sink you. Where the border between boat and ship is for someone else to answer
Winston Churchill gave the order to sink the BismarckThe pocket battleship set off on her maiden voyage on 19 May 1941 with the heavy cruiser Prinz Eugen. Their mission was to sink supply convoys between the UK and the US. On 24 May 1941, they were discovered and HMS Hood, with HMS The Prince of Walles, engaged them. Only minutes into the battle the Bismarck landed what was described as a 'lucky' shot which struck the Hood's magazine. She went down in minutes with the loss of 1,415 souls of her compliment of 1,418.Upon hearing the news Churchill ordered that every resource possible be used to sink the Bismarck, who in turn was taking on water and was reduced to a max speed of 20 knots. Following three days of cat-and-mouse with the Royal Navy, her rudder was damaged by a torpedo from a Fairey Swordfish which left her at the mercy of the pursuing Royal Navy and on the morning of 27 May 1941 the Bismarck, suffered a huge bombardment which led the captain of the stricken ship to order it to be scuttled and his crew to abandon ship
Water. Although the hammering it received from the Royal Navy didn't help! It was sunk by 4 torpedoes from a destroyer.
The German warship Bismarck was sunk during World War II after sustaining damage from British warships and aircraft. After being disabled, the crew scuttled the ship to prevent it from falling into enemy hands.
To purposely sink a ship is to 'scuttle' the ship.
Captain Arthur Phillip's ship did not sink.
to sink a ship is 'couler un bateau' in French.
A Slip of the Lip - Can Sink a Ship - was created in 1943.