An Allied naval detachment consisting of the battleship HMS Prince of Wales, the battlecruiser HMS Repulse, sent to intercept Japanese landings in Malaya. Prince of Wales and Repulse were sunk by Japanese air attack on 10 December 1941.
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CFS2 ship: BATTLE OF THE RIVER PLATE
German "pocket" battleship Admiral Graf Spee & The British hunter flotilla, "Force G" HMNZS Achilles, HMS Ajax and HMS Exeter.
The Virtual Navy, Bruce Baker and James Smith.
The Illustrious was designed by the Royal Navy in 1936, laid-down at the Vickers-Armstrong shipyard in Barrow on 27th April 1937 and was launched on the 5th April 1939. After the completion of sea trails, the ship was commissioned on the 21st June 1940.
The flight deck had armour plating 3.9...
The Ark Royal was frequently in the Newspaper headlines and received many battle honours. The honour of the first enemy aircraft shot down by a Fleet Air Arm aircraft went to one of Ark's Blackburn Skuas in late September 1939, then on 10 April 1940 her aircraft achieved another first when they...
On May the 24th 1941, the two titans located each other..
At 05.52 AM, Hood opened fire on Bismarck. Two minutes later, DKM Bismarck responded to Hood' s gunfire and the Battle of Denmark Strait began.
At 06.00, a gigantic explosion with a thunderous flame ripped the Hood into two and Hood...
Royal Navy ship pack for cfs2
HMS Ark Royal IV "Britain's Greatest warship" & Broadsword Class Guided Missile Frigates.
'Type 22 Batch 1'
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