Warships Sinking in World War Two

The German pocket battleship DKM Graf Spee is scuttled (December 17, 1939)


The Italian battleship Conte di Cavour after being sunk in shallow water by aircraft from the HMS Illustrious
(November 12, 1942)


The British battlecruiser HMS Hood is destroyed by an explosion during the Battle of Denmark Straits (May 24, 1941)


The British battleship HMS Barham explodes after a torpedo hit from the U-331 in the Mediterranean (November 25, 1941)
Click here ( 18K) to see a small animated image that I made of the Barham sinking and exploding.


The American battleship USS West Virginia sinks while on fire during the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor (December 7, 1941)


The American battleship USS California sinks while on fire during the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor (December 7, 1941)


The British aircraft carrier HMS Hermes sinking near Ceylon after an attack by Japanese carrier aircraft (April 9, 1942)


The small Japanese aircraft carrier IJN Shoho is sunk by torpedoes from US aircraft at the Battle of the Coral Sea
(May 7, 1942)


The Japanese heavy cruiser IJN Mikuma sinking from damage inflicted by American carrier aircraft at the Battle of Midway
(June 6, 1942)


The American aircraft carrier USS Yorktown is fatally hit by the Japanese submarine I-168 at the Battle of Midway
(June 7, 1942)


The American aircraft carrier USS Wasp on fire and sinking after being torpedoed by a Japanese submarine off the Solomon Islands (September 14, 1942)


The entire French fleet scuttled at Toulon in response to the German takeover of Vichy France (November 27, 1942)


Japanese Patrol Boat 39 sinking (April 23, 1943)


The German submarine U-118 sinking after being hit by a depth charge from the USS Bogue's carrierplanes (June 12, 1943)


The American aircraft carrier USS St. Lô on fire just prior to exploding after a kamikaze attack (October 25, 1944)

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