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 ChrisKnupp | Dec 15, 2018 | History Article
The Kongo class were one of Japan’s primary capital ships during both World Wars. Initially laid down as the Kongo class battlecruisers, the ships were upgraded throughout their lives, eventually evolving into the Kongo class battleships and then further...
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 ChrisKnupp | Dec 2, 2018 | History Article
The warships of the Alaska class are perhaps one of the more confusing ships ever put to sea by the United States. Designed to prowl the oceans and hunt down enemy commerce raiders, they possessed high speed and considerable firepower. Vastly more powerfully than...
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...
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