The Titanic was advertised as "unsinkable". Sank in 1912 in the North Atlantic after hitting an ice berg.The German battleship SMS Ostfrieslandwas claimed to be an unsinkable "super-battleship". It was sunk in 1921.The German Battleship Bismarckwas also claimed to be unsinkable but was sunk after a fierce sea-battle in 1941.
No such vessel was sunk in 1993.
Admiral Graf Spee
The Allies sunk German Uboats. Uboat, not you-boat. Uboats stand for Unterseeboot - undersea boat.
ITS NOT! The USS Arizona sunk on December 7 1941. The way you think its floating is its a totally different battleship. the ship that is floating is the USS Missouri.
The Titanic was advertised as "unsinkable". Sank in 1912 in the North Atlantic after hitting an ice berg.The German battleship SMS Ostfrieslandwas claimed to be an unsinkable "super-battleship". It was sunk in 1921.The German Battleship Bismarckwas also claimed to be unsinkable but was sunk after a fierce sea-battle in 1941.
No such vessel was sunk in 1993.
Tirpitz was sunk in a fiord Scharnhorst was sunk off the Norwegian coast and the Cruiser Blucher was destroyed in another fiord
Vietnam was occupied by Japan from '40 until '45. Of interest, is the Royal Navy Battleship HMS Prince of Wales (of fighting the German Bismarck battleship fame) and battlecruiser HMS Repulse were both sunk by land based Japanese bombers, which took off from airfields in Vietnam. For the first time in naval history, a battleship which was underway, and fighting back, was sunk by airpower alone (10 December 1941).
War time or peace time? In peace time, the major warships sunk in the ocean have been: 1. Battleship USS Oklahoma, sunk while under tow to California after WWII. 2. Battleship USS Arkansas, sunk by an Atomic Bomb, during testing in the Pacific in 1946. 3. Battleship USS Nevada, sunk for target practice in the Pacific. 4. Battleship USS Pennsylvania, sunk for target practice in the Pacific. 5. Battleship USS New York, sunk for target practice in the Pacific. Wartime, in the ocean: British Battleship HMS Prince of Wales was sunk by Japanese airplanes in the Pacific (South China Sea-part of the Pacific). Japanese Battleship IJN Yamato, sunk by US airplanes in the Pacific. German Battleship DKM Bismarck, sunk itself in the Atlantic.
This would depend on how you see a battleship as most known. The USS Arizona is a well known US battleship, as it was sunk in Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941.
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 PeriwinkleThe 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
Admiral Graf Spee
Admiral Graf Spee
Effective date: 10 December 1941, first time airplanes acting alone, sunk a battleship at sea, while underway and shooting back! Battleship HMS Prince of Wales sunk by airpower. On this date the aircraft carrier replaced the battleship as the ship of the line.
The Allies sunk German Uboats. Uboat, not you-boat. Uboats stand for Unterseeboot - undersea boat.
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.