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		HMS Prince of Wales was the second of five King George V class battleships, built under the limitations of the Washington and London naval limitation treaties.
		HMS Prince of Wales was struck by one torpedo which opened the hull, jammed the steering, disabled most of the AA mounts, and destroyed part of the propulsion.
		Diving on HMS Prince of Wales is more than a little controversial, due the vessel's status as a war grave, and because many of the survivor's and relatives of those lost in the attack feel that the wreck should not be visited.
	www.bobhenneman.info /powwreck.htm (713 words)

	HMS Prince of Wales (1939) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Prince of Wales had a brief but active career and helped to stop the Bismarck; however her loss to Japanese land-based bombers in the Far East in 1941 is one of the events that led to the end of the battleship being considered the predominant class in naval warfare.
		On 25 October, Prince of Wales, along with the destroyers HMS Electra and Express, left for Singapore to become the flagship of the Far East Fleet under Admiral Sir Tom Phillips.
		Early in the battle, the Prince of Wales was disabled by a lucky torpedo hit where the propeller shaft entered the hull, which caused severe flooding, rendered the rudder useless, and cut the power to her 5.25 inch DP guns.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/HMS_Prince_of_Wales_(1939) (1428 words)

	Betexa ZS s.r.o. - HMS Prince of Wales (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		HMS Prince of Wales, a 35,000-ton King George V class battleship, was built by Cammell Laird in Birkenhead.
		Following repairs, Prince of Wales went to the Mediterranean, where she successfully engaged Italian planes off Malta in late September.
		Sent to the Far East with the battlecruiser HMS Repulse to counter the swiftly developing Japanese threat in the region, she arrived on 2 December 1941.
	www.betexa.cz /eng/pol_princeofwales.html (195 words)

	HMS Prince of Wales
		On 24 May 1941 Prince of Wales and the battleship HMS Hood engaged the German battleship DMK Bismarck in an historic naval engagement in which Hood was sunk and Prince of Wales was damaged, but not before Prince of Wales struck Bismarck with three of her 14" shells.
		Prince of Wales was repaired and subsequently transported British Prime Minister Winston Churchill to
		Prince of Wales was subsequently sunk while in defense of Malaya on 10 December 1941 by Japanese aircraft in the South China Sea.
	www.internet-esq.com /ussaugusta/wales.htm (145 words)

	British Navy Ships--HMS Prince of Wales (1941-1941)
		Prince of Wales, Repulse and four destroyers were sent to attack the invasion force.
		HMS Prince of Wales is in the foreground.
		Prince of Wales is near the top of the image, generating a considerable amount of smoke.
	www.history.navy.mil /photos/sh-fornv/uk/uksh-p/pow12.htm (928 words)

	HMS Prince of Wales (1941) - Wikimedia Commons
		HMS Prince Of Wales was a King George V-class battleship of the Royal Navy, built at the Cammell Laird shipyard in Birkenhead, England.
		HMS Prince of Wales off Argentia, Newfoundland, after bringing Prime Minister Winston Churchill across the Atlantic to meet with President Franklin D. Roosevelt.
		USS McDougal (DD-358) alongside HMS Prince of Wales, to transfer President Franklin D. Roosevelt to the British battleship for a meeting with Prime Minister Winston Churchill.
	commons.wikimedia.org /wiki/HMS_Prince_of_Wales (235 words)

	HMS Prince of Wales - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The fourth Prince of Wales was a 14-gun Indian sloop of 248 tons, launched at the Bombay Dockyard in 1805, but whose fate is unknown.
		The sixth Prince of Wales was a battleship launched in 1902 and sold for scrap in 1921.
		The seventh Prince of Wales was a battleship launched in 1939 and sunk in combat 1941.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/HMS_Prince_of_Wales (262 words)

	HMS Prince of Wales
		HMS Prince of Wales, was built by Cammell Laird and launched on the 3rd May 1939.
		HMS Prince of Wales is shown firing on the Bismarck and in the background a huge fl cloud is all that is left of HMS Hood.
		Wearing her unusual fl and white disruptive colour scheme, HMS Repulse is pictured as part of Force Z in company with HMS Prince of Wales and the destroyer Vampire.
	www.navalprints.com /hms_prince_of_wales.htm (1098 words)

	Wreck Diving DIR Style
		HMS Repulse in the Firth of Forth, circa 1916-17
		The silhouette of the wreck came into focus upon descent at about 60 ft and of immediate note is that she is well endowed with an abundance of marine life, a healthy ecosystem and a wide variety local tropical fish that serve only to enhance the enormity of the wreck.
		Force Z, as the HMS Repulse and the HMS Prince of Wales were known, was commanded by Admiral Tom Phillips.
	e-nekton.com /feature-11.html (4393 words)

	HMS Prince of Wales Pre Dreadnaught 1902
		HMS Prince of Wales of the London Class of Battleships.
		HMS Prince of Wales was built at Chatham Dockyard, laid down on the 20th march 1901 and launched on the 25th of March 1902, and completed in 1904.
		HMS Prince of Wales differed (along with HMS Queen) from the rest of the Class by having amidships open 12 pounder gun batteries.
	www.battleships-cruisers.co.uk /hms_prince_of_wales_1902.htm (958 words)

	Loss of HMS Hood and Bismarck
		The Prince of Wales sent the signal ‘Hood sunk’ which was received by the destroyer HMS Electra at 0600, and she and the rest of the escort instantly went in search for survivors.
		HMS Prince of Wales had to withdraw under cover of smoke after being damaged, but was able to continue to shadow the German ship.
		At 0800 of the 27th May 1941, the Bismarck, floundering helplessly, faced the combined fire of HMSs King George V and Rodney and sustained heavy damage within an hour, although she was able to continue to return fire.
	www.royalnavalmuseum.org /info_sheets_HoodandBismarck.htm (797 words)

	Battlecruiser HMS Repulse
		The Royal Navy battleship HMS Repulse is pictured as part of Force Z in company with HMS Prince of Wales and the destroyer Vampire in naval art print by Ivan Berryman.
		HMS Repulse and her sister ship Renown had additional armour platting fitted especially over the crowns of the Magazines, Steering Room and over the Engine Room.
		On the 10th December both the repulse and Prince of Wales were attacked by 80 Japanese aircraft and were sunk, HMS Repulse being hit by a Torpedo and sunk at 1233 hours, after being hit by a further 4 hits.
	www.military-art.com /dhm1011.htm (825 words)

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		giblets RE:HMS Queen Elizabeth and HMS Prince of Wales 2/9/2004 5:52:09 AM Yes the HMS Prince of wales was a 42,000 tonne battleship, sunk on 10 December 1941, she participated inteh Bismarck Action, and the Malta convoys.
		HMS Queen Elizabeth was a WWI Battleship, and took part in teh Gallipoli campaign, and then in WWII was in the Mediterranean before going to the Pacific Fleet later on before being sold as scrap in 1948.
		shawn RE:HMS Queen Elizabeth and HMS Prince of Wales 2/9/2004 10:43:04 PM The battleship the Prince of Wales was a relatively new King George Class with IRRC 10 x 14in main guns, and took part in the sinking of the Bismarck.
	www.strategypage.com /militaryforums/9-743.aspx (4149 words)

	Inner Space Photo Album
		HMS Prince of Wales and HMS Repulse lie approximately 70nm off the East coast of Malaysia, and on the way to these sites we made a warmup dive on the supertanker Seven Skies.
		HMS Prince of Wales weighs approximately 40,000 tonns with a length of 227 meters.
		She is 8 nm from HMS Repulse, and lies upside down in 70m of water.
	www.inner-space.co.uk /photos/viewpage.asp?page=20 (922 words)

	Sinking of Prince of Wales and Repulse - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (via CobWeb/3.1 planetlab2.cs.unc.edu) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		The Sinking of Prince of Wales and Repulse was a World War II naval engagement which illustrated the effectiveness of aerial attacks against naval forces that were not protected by air cover and the resulting importance of including an aircraft carrier in any major fleet action.
		Secondly, it denied Prince of Wales much of her auxiliary electrical power that was vital for internal communications, ventilation, the steering gear and pumps and that the 5.25-inch and 2-pounder gun mountings relied on to train and elevate.
		The Prince of Wales' bell was removed from the wreck in 2002 in response to fears that it would be stolen by unauthorised divers and is now on display at the Merseyside Maritime Museum in Liverpool.
	en.wikipedia.org.cob-web.org:8888 /wiki/Sinking_of_Prince_of_Wales_and_Repulse (2406 words)

	War Stories (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		Sinking of HMS Repulse and HMS Prince of Wales – December 10, 1941
		The sinking of the Repulse and the Prince of Wales was carried out by a combination of high level bombing and torpedo attacks with consummate skill and the greatest daring.
		As I go over the side the Prince of Wales half a mile away seems to be afire but her guns are still firing the heaviest.
	home.comcast.net /~ralph608/cecilbrown.htm (2251 words)

	The Destruction of Force Z - Morison
		The results of the first two hits on Prince of Wales, and particularly the one aft, proved devastating, as was finally confirmed by a Royal Navy diving team which examined the wreckage of the ship in 1966.
		With some 2,400 tons of water aboard, Prince of Wales listed 13 degrees to port and settled by the stern until, by 1220, the port side of the quarterdeck was awash despite counter-flooding.
		At 1320 HMS Prince of Wales, flagship of Force Z and the Eastern Fleet, capsized and sank.
	www.angelfire.com /fm/odyssey/CBarnett.htm (2340 words)

	Royal Navy WARSHIP GUIDE - HMS Prince of Wales (via CobWeb/3.1 planetlab2.cs.unc.edu) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		The Prince of Wales was actually commissioned before it was completed because of bombing raids in Liverpool, which forced it to be completed in Rosyth.
		Prince of Wales escaped with heavy, but non-fatal damage and had to call off the chase.
		Prince of Wales's fate was not in European theatres though, but in the Pacific Ocean.On station in Singapore, she was ordered into the South China Sea.
	www.pdwilson.co.uk.cob-web.org:8888 /warships/princeofwales.htm (344 words)

	uboat.net - Allied Warships - Battleship HMS Prince of Wales of the King George V class
		Prince of Wales, a 35,000-ton King George V class battleship built Birkenhead, England, was completed in March 1941.
		Following her return to British waters, Prince of Wales went to the Mediterranean, where she successfully engaged Italian planes off Malta in late September.
		Prince of Wales (Capt. J.C. Leach, DSO, RN with Admiral Phillips, sir T.S.V.,, KCB, RN aboard) capsized in position 03º34'N, 104º26'E and followed Repulse to the bottom less than an hour later.
	uboat.net /allies/warships/ship/4071.html (448 words)

	The Sinking of Prince of Wales and Repulse: Personal Accounts, by Alan Matthews
		On November 16 the Prince docked at Cape Town, by this time it was known that the carrier Indomitable had run aground in the West Indies and sustained damage making it imperative for her to steam to America for repairs.
		Soon after lookouts onboard Prince of Wales reported three sightings of Japanese aircraft, Philips now realised the element of surprise was lost, and as dusk fell he contemplated what course of action to pursue.
		Prince of Wales was steaming at 25 knots when 9 Bettys appeared low on her port bow, in a moment they released their torpedoes.
	www.microworks.net /pacific/personal/pow_repulse.htm (7400 words)

	Naval Prints , HMS Prince of Wales (via CobWeb/3.1 planetlab2.cs.unc.edu) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		it was probable HMS prince of Wales was hit with one 330lb torpedo warhead who's explosion broke of the A bracket of the port outer shaft with the loss of the propeller.
		The Prince of Wales was attacked by an initial wave of nine torpedo bombers, and suffered two hits.
		The demise of the Repulse and the Prince of Wales marked the end of the Battleship Era.
	www.naval-art.com.cob-web.org:8888 /prince_of_wales.htm (1465 words)

	HMS Hood
		HMS Hood passes beneath the forth Bridge on her way to Rosyth during one of her many visits to the Firth in the 1930s.
		Prince of Wales, her Type 284 malfunctioning (attempts were made to use it, but it was believed to be defective), was forced to shoot optically.
		Prince of Wales's opening salvo was observed to be some distance away from Bismarck.
	www.naval-art.com /hood.htm (2550 words)

	HMS Prince of Wales and HMS Repulse quiz -- free game (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		HMS Prince of Wales performance in the engagement was hampered by what factor?
		HMS Repulse escorting HMS Prince of Wales was sunk first.
		HMS Repulse had a 'sister ship' which oddly enough was quite different in appearance, what was her sister ship's name ?
	www.funtrivia.com /playquiz.cfm?qid=48508 (224 words)

	HMS Hood Battle Cruiser
		HMS Hood took part in the bombardment of Mers-el-Kibir on the 3rd July 1940.
		HMS Hood received several heavy hits and blew up and sank quickly, only 3 of her crew survived...
		The moment shortly after dawn on 24th May 1941 when HMS Hood, in company with HMS Prince of Wales, opens fire on the Bismarck, setting in motion one of the greatest sea dramas the world had seen.
	www.militaryartcompany.com /hms_hood.htm (2037 words)

	HMS Prince of Wales and HMS Repulse - Naval Forces Quiz (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		HMS Prince of Wales and HMS Repulse - Naval Forces Quiz
		Quiz - HMS Prince of Wales and HMS Repulse
		HMS Prince of Wales and HMS Repulse two fine Royal Navy Warships that came to tragic ends.
	www.funtrivia.com /quizdetails.cfm?id=48508 (78 words)

	Amazon.com: Battleship: The Loss of the Prince of Wales and the Repulse: Books: Martin Middlebrook,Patrick Mahoney (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		By bad luck the first torpedo hit made massive damage on Prince of Wales and effects of this hit are shown with drawings over flooding and effects on electricity, pumps and other areas are described also.
		On December 10, 1941, the British battleships HMS Prince of Wales and HMS Repulse were sunk off the coast of Malaya by Japanese torpedo aircraft.
		On the other hand, the much better-built HMS Prince of Wales was crippled early in the fight by a lucky torpedo hit that caused massive flooding and knocked out most of her electrical systems.
	www.amazon.com /Battleship-Loss-Prince-Wales-Repulse/dp/0140234691 (1894 words)

	John's HMS Repulse and HMS Prince of Wales Expedition
		He also pioneered diving on the wreck of HMS Hampshire and it was after one of these dives that we talked over a pint or two of the wrecks of the Repulse and Prince of Wales.
		As the trip continued we all felt that it was time to visit Repulses deeper and larger neighbour HMS Prince of Wales.
		She lies in 66-68 metres of water and although Repulse is rarely visited the POW was 95% undived, a few brave souls on air was the sum of the visits.
	www.scapaflow.com /reppow.html (772 words)

	Cybermodeler Online - Trumpeter 1/350 HMS Hood
		It was in the middle of one of these cruises in 1939 when HMS Hood was brought back from Scapa Flow to rendezvous with HMS Renown and HMS Repulse and patrol the waters between Iceland and Faeroes and block Kriegsmarine attempts to enter the Atlantic.
		In July 1940, HMS Hood was part of Force H, a battle group that did what the Royal Navy had dreamed of doing a few hundred years earlier - sailed within gun range of key French ports and destroyed the French Navy at anchor.
		In May 1941, HMS Hood was part of that fateful engagement to hunt down the German cruiser Prinz Eugen and the battleship Bismarck.
	www.cybermodeler.com /hobby/kits/tru/kit_tru_hood.shtml (659 words)

	HMS Prince of Wales
		Battleship website dedicated to the history of HMS Prince of Wales from its launch to its participation in major wars also notice board for families of ex-crew of HMS Prince of Wales.
		HMS Prince of Wales, returning from the Churchill / Roosevelt meeting at Placentia Bay in August 1941.
		HMS Prince of Wales, Notice Board for naval enthusiasts and ex Crew families of HMS Prince of Wales.
	www.battleships-cruisers.co.uk /prince.htm (1593 words)

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