HMS Prince of Wales (53)
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HMS Prince of Wales was a King George V-class battleship of the Royal Navy that was built at the Cammell Laird shipyard in Birkenhead. Despite being sunk less than a year after she was commissioned, P
Prince of Wales arrives at Singapore, 4 December 1941, six days before being sunk
Bridge view of Prince of Wales's forecastle while the ship is underway.
A part of Prince of Wales's anti-aircraft armament: two of the eight-barreled two-pounder pom-poms and two of the twin 5.25 inch gun turrets.
Prince of Wales shortly after she was commissioned, lowering a Supermarine Walrus flying boat over her side.
HMS Repulse (1916)
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HMS Repulse was one of two Renown-class battlecruisers built for the Royal Navy during the First World War. Originally laid down as an improved version of the Revenge-class battleship, her constructio
HMS Prince of Wales (53)
…was sunk by Japanese aircraft on 10 December 1941, three days after the attack on Pearl Harbor. She was sunk alongside her consort, the battlecruiser HMS Repulse, in an attack by 85 Mitsubishi G3M and G4M bombers of the Japanese navy air service. Prince of Wales and Repulse became the first capital ships to be…
Repulse with other capital ships of the Atlantic Fleet on manoeuvres in the 1920s
Repulse, circa 1916–1917, after post-trials alterations
Repulse in the Firth of Forth serving as the flagship of the 1st Battlecruiser Squadron, 1918
Repulse entering Vancouver Harbour during her world tour with Hood and other ships of the Special Service Squadron, 1924