As Japan advanced through Southeast Asia, the British sent Force Z - battleship Prince of Wales, battlecruiser Repulse, and ...

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Location: 50 miles off the coast of Malaya. Players: Force Z (HMS 'Prince of Wales' and HMS 'Repulse' under Admiral Tom Phillips); 88 Japanese aircraft from the First Air Force. HMS Prince of Wales ...

The success of the Japanese attacks made clear that even modern battleships required air cover to operate in hostile areas. Several other battleships were lost in similar circumstances (mostly ...

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World War II-era shipwrecks containing the remains of hundreds of British sailors and civilians are now being plundered by pirates scrounging for scrap metal in Southeast Asia, prompting calls for a ...

The sinking of HMS Prince of Wales and HMS Repulse with the loss of more than 800 lives remains one of the worst losses in British naval history. But now an unseemly row has broken out over plans to ...

The wreck of HMS Repulse, sunk in 1941 off Malaysia and classified as a war grave, has been "rigged up with home-made bombs and fuses waiting for detonation", according to a diver who visited the site ...