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	HMS Prince of Wales (1939) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		HMS Prince of Wales was a King George V-class battleship of the Royal Navy, built at the Cammell Laird shipyard in Birkenhead, England.
		The Prince had a brief but active career and helped to stop the Bismarck but her loss to Japanese air attack in the Far East in 1941 signalled the end of the battleship as 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 Philips.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/HMS_Prince_of_Wales_(1939) (1142 words)

	HMS Prince of Wales - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The third Prince of Wales was a 38-gun transport purchased in 1795, and still on the records in 1801, but little more is known.
		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 seventh Prince of Wales was a battleship launched in 1939 and sunk in combat 1941.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/HMS_Prince_of_Wales (258 words)

	Untitled Document
		HMS valiant was badly damaged during refit in a floating dock at Trincomalee, Ceylon, so bad was the damage that repairs were stopped, and she was used as a training hulk for stockers at Devonport.
		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.
		HMS Vanguard was the last of the great Royal navy battleships, built at Clydebank, she was launched on the 30th November 1944, and did not see service during world War Two, She was the biggest British battleship with a displacement of 42.500 tons.
	www.naval-art.com /images/naval-art.htm (4225 words)

	HMS Repulse (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		HMS Repulse was part of Task Force Z with HMS Prince of Wales who also was sunk during the attacks from the Japanese airplanes.
		HMS Repulse was one of two very fast battlecruisers ordered by the Admiralty in 1915 on the strength of the success of the Invincible-class ships over Admiral Graf von Spee's squadron at the Battle of the Falklands; the other was Renown.
		In October 1941, she was sent to the Far East with HMS Prince of Wales of the Eastern Fleet under Admiral Sir Tom Phillips.
	www.skovheim.org /worldwide/southeastasia/repulse/repulse.htm (996 words)

	Navy News - News Desk - News - Warship wrecks gain greater protection
		HMS H5: A modest H-class submarine of 364 tons, the Canadian-built H5 was lost in a collision on March 6, 1918 in the Irish Sea off Anglesey, possibly having been rammed by a freighter which mistook her for a U-boat.
		HMS Prince of Wales: A 35,000-ton King George V-class battleship which was sunk by Japanese aircraft off the east coast of Malaysia on December 10, 1941.
		HMS Repulse: The 26,500-ton battlecruiser was in company with the Prince of Wales when she was sunk off Malaysia on December 10, 1941.
	www.navynews.co.uk /articles/2001/0111/0001111201.asp (1243 words)

	Prince of Wales HMS Battleship, Repulse, Hood Battlecruisers (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		HMS Prince of Wales, a 35,000-ton King George V class battleship built Birkenhead, England, was completed in March 1941.
		Prince of Wales, Repulse and four destroyers were sent to attack the invasion force.
		Prince of Wales capsized and followed her to the bottom less than an hour later.
	www.battle-fleet.com /pw/his/hms.htm (1070 words)

	Repulse
		HMS Prince of Wales increased speed to 25 knots, as her small arms opened up once more; the noise was deafening, reaching a crescendo as the planes flew within feet of the guard-rails.
		Within seconds the Prince took on a list of 11 degrees and her speed was reduced to 15 knots, both her steering gear and main electrical systems had been fatally damaged.
		After numerous torpedo hits, Prince of Wales was in a dire situation; it was estimated she had taken on board an unbelievable 18,000 tonnes of water.
	www.burmastar.org.uk /repulse.htm (2157 words)

	HMS Hood
		In the autumn of 1939 she operated in the North Sea, and it was here she was attacked by JU88,s and one bomb hit HMS Hood, but it failed to explode and only caused minor damage.
		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.
	www.second-world-war.com /hms_hood.htm (2131 words)

	Battle of the Denmark Strait -- Sinking of HMS Hood
		HMS Prince of Wales is in the foreground.
		British battleship Prince of Wales (smoke column in left center) under fire from the German battleship Bismarck and heavy cruiser Prinz Eugen, with smoke from the sunken HMS Hood at right.
		British battleship Prince of Wales (left smoke column) turns to open the range, after she was hit by German gunfire.
	www.history.navy.mil /photos/events/wwii-atl/batlt-41/bismk-c3.htm (414 words)

	Crew of HMS Prince of Wales
		Esmond Knight was present during the Battle of the Denmark Strait, the action in which HMS Prince of Wales and HMS Hood fought against the German battleship Bismarck and the cruiser Prinz Eugen.
		HMS Hood was sunk with the loss of 1415 of her crew, leaving 3 survivors.
		Nearly a year later, as a junior officer in the Prince of Wales, he was blinded - losing his left eye - during the pursuit of the Bismarck, and he spent some time being rehabilitated at the St Dunstan's Training School which had been evacuated to Shropshire.
	www.forcez-survivors.org.uk /biographies/princecrew/knight.html (1103 words)

	HMS Prince of Wales
		HMS Prince of Wales was the sistership of HMS King George-V and HMS Duke of York.
		HMS Prince of Wales fought against battleship Bismarck during the Battle of Denmark Strait.
		HMS Prince of Wales was lost during an unsuccesful attack againist Japan Navy in the Pacific Ocean.
	battleshipbismarck.hypermart.net /hms_prince_of_wales.htm (226 words)

	HMS Prince of Wales
		During the battle Prince of Wales may have struck battleship Bismarck at least twice (though it is possible that Hood also may have done so).
		Prince of Wales suffered from grievous mechanical difficulties throughout the fight.
		Prince of Wales exchanged fire with Bismarck again later, but no hits were scored by either side.
	www.forcez-survivors.org.uk /prince.html (449 words)

	HMS Somali
		When HMS Somali was completed, she spent most of January 1939 around Portland England carrying out torpedo and harbour exercises in severe weather.
		Around Christmas 1941, HMS Somali, HMS Ashanti, HMS Bedouin and HMS Eskimo took part in another raid on the Lofoten Islands but their assault was curtailed by the presence of the German air force.
		HMS Ashanti then took her crippled sister ship in tow, cruising at a slow 7 knots.
	www.hmscavalier.org.uk /G33 (1110 words)

	Battleships of the Royal Navy
		HMS Repulse departing Singapore as part of force Z with HMS Vampire off her port bow and HMS Prince of Wales in the distance.
		Launched in January 1915, the Revenge-class battleship HMS Resolution was to enjoy a 33 year career during which she served in the Atlantic, home and Eastern Fleets as well as serving repeated spells in the Mediterranean, being both bombed and torpedoed along the way.
		HMS Lion with her sister ship HMS Princess Royal are shown firing on the German High Seas Fleet which can be seen in the distance during the Battle of Jutland.
	www.ivanberryman.co.uk /rn_battleships.htm (2942 words)

	HMS Prince of Wales - Wikimedia Commons
		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.
		Church service on the after deck of HMS Prince of Wales, in Placentia Bay, Newfoundland, during the conference.
	commons.wikimedia.org /wiki/HMS_Prince_of_Wales (206 words)

	Singapore Naval Base
		He suggested she be called HMS SEMBAWANG, the name of the river running through the base, but their Lordship’s succinct response in February 1926 said "do not consider the present a suitable time to give effect to the proposals..
		HMS TERROR remained as Base ship until the last day of 1939 and the next day the function was established ashore when HMS SULTAN commissioned.
		The 1,612 ships company of HMS PRINCE OF WALES and another 1,309 in REPULSE little suspected that their ships would, in less than 48 hours, both be at the bottom of the South China Sea, the victims of Japanese air attacks off Kuantan on Malaya’s east coast.
	www.burrill12.freeserve.co.uk /Terror/SNB.htm (1856 words)

	HMS Prince of Wales
		HMS Prince of Wales shown in naval art prints by leading naval artists Brian Wood, Anthony Saunders and Ivan Berryman published by Cranston Fine Arts of Scotland.
		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.
		Both Repulse and prince of Wales were lost in the attack, while their accompanying destroyers remained to pick up survivors among them HMS Express which can be seen off HMS Repulss starboard quarter.
	www.navalprints.com /hms_prince_of_wales.htm (1098 words)

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		On 29 March, the bodies of two crewmen washed ashore on the Dutch coast, the body of sailor B van der Spek near Callantsoog and the one of first steerman R. Teensma on Texel.
		The master, the crew of 37 & nine gunners from Ger-y-Bryn were rescued by corvette HMS Coreopsis, transferred to armed trawler HMS Loch Oskaig & landed at Londonderry 1943 - At 0926, U-255 fired a spread of three torpedoes at Convoy RA-53 & heard two detonations.
		The drifting ship was scuttled by gunfire from a destroyer about one hour after the attack 1944 - While submarine USS Tullibee was attacking a merchantman in the Palaus area, one of her own torpedoes circled back & hit the boat, sinking it.
	www.seawaves.com /newsletters/TDIH/march/05Mar.txt (2177 words)

	King George V Class Battleships
		HMS King George V launched on the 21st February 1939, Served in the Home fleet between 1939 to 1943 during this time took part in the pursuit of Bismarck in May 1941, and operated on the Murmansk Convoy run.
		HMS Anson was scrapped at Faslane on the 17th December 1957.
		The King George V class battleship HMS Anson is pictured in Sydney Harbour where she joined the Pacific Fleet in July 1945, viewed across the flight deck of HMS Vengeance, where ten of her Vought F4.U Corsairs are ranged in front of a single folded Fairey Barracuda.
	www.ivanberryman.co.uk /kgvclass.htm (1206 words)

	spotlight: (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Launched on 14th February 1939, Bismarck was the first of the new breed of ships that Adolf Hitler hoped would herald the rebirth of the German battle fleet.
		She along with the Prinz Eugen accounted for the sinking of the HMS Hood at the famous Battle of Denmark Strait.
		In doing so she took three hits from the HMS Prince of Wales, which ensured that Operation Rheinubung - disruption of British supply convoys in the Atlantic - had to be temporarily abandoned.
	www.ifp.uiuc.edu /~smallik/spotlight/oldspots/bismarck.html (155 words)

	HMS Repulse, Revenge, Scapa, Loch Ewe, troop, convoy, North Sea
		Towards the end of the autumn 1938 cruise the Revenge returned to Devonport, where we learned that she was going to be swopped with the H.M.S. Repulse at Portsmouth after Christmas leave and that most of each of the ships’ companies would be involved in the changeover.
		Early that summer in 1939 the Repulse went to her home port of Devonport, where fourteen days summer leave was given.
		H.M.S. Norfolk had returned to Devonport at the end of her foreign service commission, so all preparations were under way for Mabel’s sister, Lily, to be married to Gilbert Kime.
	www.naval-history.net /WW2MemoirAndSo04.htm (4390 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.
		She was at Singapore in October 1941, but was sunk off Malaya, (along with HMS Repulse) by Japanese Torpedo Aircraft on the 10th December 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 (1586 words)

	H.M.S. Hood Association-Battle Cruiser Hood: References & Research Materials- ADM267/111: Prince of Wales Damage During ...
		The damage sustained in PRINCE OF WALES in her recent action has now been examined by D.N.C's representative.
		Special lifting bands supplied by the Bomb Disposal Officer from H.M.S. COCHRANE were then fitted and screwed firmly round the shell.
		There appears to be no alternative to the use of tap rivets, but it is thought that an improvement might be effected by an appreciable increase in the number of fastenings at the forward edge of the bulge plating.
	www.hmshood.org.uk /reference/official/adm267/adm267-111.html (3390 words)

	Leaning Towards the Dark Side: The Battleship Quiz (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		HMS Prince of Wales, followed about half an hour later by HMS Repulse.
		HMS Warrior is an ironclad, and Victory is a Ship of the Line.
		Prince of Wales, in the first days of the Pacific War.
	www.taintedbill.com /archives/003643.html (1395 words)

	The History of Naval Design
		The former were intended to sail in line of battle, and engage the enemy broadside on, at distances of sometimes 10 metres, with the aim of boarding and capturing, rather than sinking, the enemy.
		By 1939, the Navy was seriously depleted, and smaller than that of the Japanese.
		Reports of Graf von Spee, and Capt. John Luce, HMS Glasgow, on the Battle of Coronel, 2.
	www.gwpda.org /naval/scnavdes.htm (3697 words)

	HMS NELSON BATTLESHIP (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		HMS DUKE OF YORK 1940 KING GEORGE V CLASS
		HMS KING GEORGE V 1939 KING GEORGE V CLASS
		HMS SIR THOMAS PICTON 1915 LORD CLIVE CLASS
	www.homestead.com /nelson1/BRITISHBATTLESHIPS.html (77 words)

	Revell HMS Prince Of Wales Revell UK (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		The Prince of Wales was launched in February 1939 and completed on 4th March 1940.
		Together with the Hood, she was sent to hunt the Bismarck and the Prince Eugen before she was fully operational.
		After the loss of the Hood on 24th May 1941, when already seriously damaged the Prince of Wales fired on the Bismarck, hitting the target several times, and partly disabled it before turning away.
	www.modelsforsale.com /catalog/product_info.php?products_id=55532 (448 words)

	HMS Hood (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		The pride of the British fleet, The Mighty Hood as she was known, was launched in 1918.
		Hodd is depicted opening fire at 17.55 hours with the battleships Resolution and the destroyer HMS Foxhound to her stern.
		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.naval-art.com /hood.htm (2561 words)

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