HMS Cornwall (56)
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HMS Cornwall, pennant number 56, was a County-class heavy cruiser of the Kent sub-class built for the Royal Navy in the mid-1920s. The ship spent most of her pre-World War II career assigned to the Ch
Cornwall at anchor, 1929
Dorsetshire (background) and Cornwall under air attack by Japanese aircraft, 5 April 1942
Pinguin was a German auxiliary cruiser which served as a commerce raider in the Second World War. The Pinguin was known to the Kriegsmarine as Schiff 33, and designated HSK 5. The most successful comm
HMS Cornwall (56)
…Cornwall was transferred to the South Atlantic in late 1939 where she escorted convoys before returning to the Indian Ocean in 1941. She then sank the German auxiliary cruiser Pinguin in May. After the start of the Pacific War in December 1941, she began escorting convoys until she was transferred to the Eastern Fleet in March 1942…
Pinguin in the Indian Ocean in 1941.
Photograph of a He 114 floatplane