Sunk in Combat
The following ships were destroyed in battle, most of which are considered war graves.
| Name | Navy | Casualties | Date sunk | Location | Condition | Relics | Image |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Invincible !HMS Invincible | Royal Navy | 1,015 | 31 May 1916 | North Sea | Invincible lies in two pieces in 180 feet (55 m) of water | — | |
| Indefatigable !HMS Indefatigable | Royal Navy | 1,015 | 31 May 1916 | North Sea | Heavily salvaged, only large pieces of metal remain on the sea floor | One of the ship's life savers that survived the sinking is on display at the Imperial War Museum North in Manchester | |
| Queen Mary !HMS Queen Mary | Royal Navy | 1,257 | 31 May 1916 | North Sea | Queen Mary lies upside down in 200 feet (61 m) of water | — | |
| Lützow !SMS Lützow | Imperial German Navy | 157 | 1 June 1916 | North Sea | Lützow is relatively intact, upside down, in 160 feet (49 m) of water | — | |
| Repulse !HMS Repulse | Royal Navy | 327 | 10 December 1941 | South China Sea | On her side in 180 feet (55 m) of water | — | |
| Hood !HMS Hood | Royal Navy | 1,415 | 24 May 1941 | Denmark Strait | In pieces in 10,000 feet (3,000 m) of water | Two of the Hood's 5.5-inch (140 mm) guns, removed earlier during a refit, were installed on Ascension Island where the battery still exists today in a largely intact condition. A single gun mounting survives on the Faroe Islands |
Read more about this topic: List Of Sunken Battlecruisers
Famous quotes containing the words sunk in, sunk and/or combat:
“Thus when I come to shape here at this table between my hands the story of my life and set it before you as a complete thing, I have to recall things gone far, gone deep, sunk into this life or that and become part of it; dreams, too, things surrounding me, and the inmates, those old half-articulate ghosts who keep up their hauntings by day and night ... shadows of people one might have been; unborn selves.”
—Virginia Woolf (1882–1941)
“Every disastrous accident alarms us, and sets us on enquiries concerning the principles whence it arose: Apprehensions spring up with regard to futurity: And the mind, sunk into diffidence, terror, and melancholy, has recourse to every method of appeasing those secret intelligent powers, on whom our fortune is supposed entirely to depend.”
—David Hume (1711–1776)
“The combat ended for want of combatants.”
—Pierre Corneille (1606–1684)