by Matthew Wright | Dec 15, 2018 | History Article
The loss of Prince of Wales and Repulse off the Malayan coast on 10 December 1941 – described in the previous two articles – set alarm bells going in Britain. It marked the first time heavy ships had been lost to air attack, while fully operational and...
by Matthew Wright | Dec 6, 2018 | History Article
At 5.35 pm on 8 December 1941 the battleship Prince of Wales and battlecruiser Repulse, with supporting destroyers, left Singapore to attack a Japanese seaborne invasion force that was landing in Malaya. By the early afternoon of 10 December, both ships had been sunk,...
by Matthew Wright | Nov 25, 2018 | History Article
The loss of Prince of Wales and Repulse to Japanese air attack off the Malayan (Malaysian) coast, on 10 December 1941,[1] was a human tragedy, although the precise death toll has been variously given. The official figure is 840: however numbers given in various...
by Matthew Wright | Nov 10, 2018 | History Article
As war clouds loomed over Europe in the late 1930s, Britain’s last generation of battleships were well in hand. By 1938 the five King George V class were under construction and the first two examples of their successors, the Lions, were due to be laid down in 1939.[1]...
by Matthew Wright | Oct 9, 2018 | History Article
One of the common misconceptions in naval history is the idea that the so-called ‘escalator clause’ of the Second London Naval Treaty – which allowed main gun calibre to automatically revert to 16-inch if any signatory failed to ratify the treaty...
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