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Old 09-13-06, 11:36 AM   #15
Danelov
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Default Battleship losses

If my memory is OK:
The USN sole losses were the battleships sunken at Pearl Harbour , actually BB-39 Arizona,BB-37 Oklahoma and the old Utah; all other battleships were refloated and repaired.

For the other Nations

ITALIA

-Conte di Cavour was sunk in the Taranto attack, was refloated but never complet repaired before the Italian Armistice in 1943.
-Roma(Class Littorio) was sunk by the Guided flying bombs of the Luftwaffe with great loss of live ,in his transfer sail to Malta after the armistice ,for rendition, in september 1943.

-The Bretagne(Provence Class) was sunk in Mers El Kebir by the Royal Navy in Operation Catapult with great loss of live.
-The Provence was hit the same day and also was sunk in shallow waters, refloated ,was transladed to Toulon and scuttled by his crew in November 1942 to avoid the capture by the Germans.

ROYAL NAVY

HMS Royal Oak sunk by U-47, HMS Barham by U-331 ,HMS Hood by Bismarck,HMS Repulse and HMS Prince of Wales by IJN planes.HMS Valiant and HMS Queen Elizabeth sunken at Alexandria in shallow waters by Italian human torpedos, refloated and repaired.

KRIEGSMARINE

Bismarck by Rodney-King George V, Scharnhorst by Duke of York and several cruisers , Tirpitz by Lancasters of the RAF 617 Sqd with Tallboy bombs.Graf Spee scuttled by his crew at Montevideo after the Battle of River Plate.

IJN

All Battleships sunken by ships,submarines and air attacks, except Nagato ,taked in charge by the USN and utilised for the atomic test a Bikini.Battleship Mutsu exploded at port and sunk after accident in powder magazines by 1943.

SOVIET UNION

Marat hit by JU-87 stukas, sunk in shallow waters,sten section repaired and utilised as floating battery under the name of Petropavlovsk.
Oktyabrskaya Revolutsiya damaged by German artillery, repaired and after desactivated to the end of the war.
HMS Royal Sovereign was transfered in 1944 to the Soviet Navy and named Arkangelsk.Returned to UK in 1948.

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