Where Was HMS Royal Oak sunk in World War II?
"Second World War, she was no longer suited to front-line duty. On 14 October 1939, ""Royal Oak"" was anchored at Scapa Flow in Orkney, Scotland, when she was torpedoed by the German submarine . Of ""Royal Oak""s complement of 1,234 men and boys, 833 were killed that night or died later of their wounds. The loss of the outdated ship—the first of the five Royal Navy battleships and battlecruisers sunk in the Second World War—did little to affect the numerical superiority enjoyed by the British navy and its Allies, but the sinking had considerable effect on wartime morale. The raid"
"in Bad Ischl, Austria. In 1930 they moved to the Isle of Wight, off the southwestern coast of England. In 1939, her brother, Diarmuid MacDermott, died in the sinking of the British warship ""HMS Royal Oak"" which was sunk by a German U-boat in Scapa Flow, off the northern coast of Scotland, at the beginning of the Second World War. In 1941 she enlisted in the Royal Navy, serving in various ports in the south-west of England, all of which were heavily bombarded. In 1947, she began her studies at the Royal Holloway College at the University of London and"
"SS Irish Oak (1919) The SS ""Irish Oak"" was an Irish-operated steamship which was sunk in the North Atlantic during World War II by a German submarine. As the West Neris she had been built in the US and operated by the United States Shipping Board. In 1941, she was chartered by Irish Shipping Limited, to transport wheat and fertilizer from North America to Ireland. Sailing as a clearly marked neutral vessel, not in convoy, she was nonetheless torpedoed and sunk by on 15 May 1943 midway between North America and Ireland. The crew were rescued. At the time there"
"darkness, oil slick and low water temperature meant that many of those who did escape the ship drowned before they could be rescued. ""Royal Oak"" rolled over and sank 15 minutes after being hit. A total of 833 crew were killed in the disaster, a further 386 were rescued. Rear-Admiral Blagrove was not among the survivors. His body was not recovered and the manner of his death is unknown. Blagrove's family became aware of the sinking from newspaper billboards in Edinburgh the following day but were not overly concerned for his safety. They were notified of his death 24 hours"
"(explosive ordnance disposal) personnel discarded it a mile from shore. On 16 April 2016 Royal Navy bomb disposal experts detonated a World War II torpedo found in Scapa Flow in Orkney. It is believed to have been one of those fired at ""Royal Oak"" by a German U-boat in 1939. Following a lavish celebration in Berlin for the sinking of HMS ""Royal Oak"" in which the crew members of ""U-47"" were received by Adolf Hitler and decorated, the boat returned to sea on 16 November 1939. Once the U-boat had left Kiel on 16 November, she headed out into the"
"picked up by a boat and transferred to the ""Daisy 2"". Prien did not survive the war: he and ""U-47"" were lost on 7 March 1941, possibly as a result of an attack by the British destroyer . News of the loss was kept secret by the Nazi government for ten weeks. Several ""U-47"" crew from the ""Royal Oak"" mission did survive, having been transferred to other vessels. Some of them subsequently met with their former enemies from ""Royal Oak"" and forged friendships with them. Despite the relatively shallow water in which she sank, the majority of bodies could not"
"buildings. On 14 October 1939, the Royal Navy battleship HMS ""Royal Oak"" was sunk at her moorings within the natural harbour of Scapa Flow by the German U-boat ""U-47"". Shortly before midnight on 13 October ""U-47"", under the command of Günther Prien, had entered Scapa Flow through Kirk Sound between Lamb Holm and the Orkney Mainland. Although the shallow eastern passages had been secured with measures including sunken block ships, booms and anti-submarine nets, Prien was able to navigate the ""U-47"" around the obstructions at high tide. He launched a torpedo attack on the Royal Navy battleship while it was"
"unclear, but one reported theory is that it was named after the 17th-century warship HMS ""Royal Oak"", which was sunk at the nearby Raid on the Medway in 1664. Local people say that one of the beams in the pub comes from the ship, the remains of which may have been broken up at a nearby shipyard after the battle. Another theory is that it was named after the Royal Oak that Charles II of England hid in following the Battle of Worcester. In the late 18th or early 19th century it was given a Flemish Bond brick face and"
"the open starboard-side portholes below the waterline. She soon rolled further onto her side to 45°, hanging there for several minutes before disappearing beneath the surface at 01:29, 13 minutes after Prien's second strike. 833 men died with the ship, including Rear-Admiral Henry Blagrove, commander of the Second Battle Squadron. Over one hundred of the dead were Boy Seamen, not yet 18 years old, the largest ever such loss in a single Royal Navy action. The admiral's wooden gig, moored alongside, was dragged down with ""Royal Oak"". The tender ""Daisy 2"", skippered by John Gatt, had been tied up for"
"who survived the sinking while serving as a Boy, First Class on ""Royal Oak"", served as the Royal Oak Association's Honorary Secretary. An annual ceremony of remembrance is held by the survivors and descendants of the crew at the Naval War Memorial, Southsea, on the anniversary of the sinking. The last remaining survivor of ""Royal Oak"", Arthur Smith, who had been a 17-year old Boy, First Class when the ship was struck, died on 11 December 2016. He had been on watch at the bridge and had jumped from the sinking ship, swimming in the wrong direction until he was"
"scenes of naval action. In 1938, ""Royal Oak"" returned to the Home Fleet and was made flagship of the Second Battle Squadron based in Portsmouth. On 24 November 1938, she returned the body of the British-born Queen Maud of Norway, who had died in London, to a state funeral in Oslo, accompanied by her husband King Haakon VII. Paying off in December 1938, ""Royal Oak"" was recommissioned the following June, and in the late summer of 1939 embarked on a short training cruise in the English Channel in preparation for another 30-month tour of the Mediterranean, for which her crew"
"significance in British history, a number of places and things have been named after the Royal Oak. For example, ""The Royal Oak"" is the third most common pub name in Britain. and there have been eight warships of the Royal Navy named HMS ""Royal Oak."" Royal Oak The Royal Oak is the English oak tree within which the future King Charles II of England hid to escape the Roundheads following the Battle of Worcester in 1651. The tree was in Boscobel Wood, which was part of the park of Boscobel House. Charles told Samuel Pepys in 1680 that while he"
"1918, the German High Seas Fleet was transferred in its entirety to Scapa Flow while a decision was to be made on its future; however, the German sailors opened their sea-cocks and scuttled all the ships. Most ships were salvaged, but the remaining wrecks are now a favoured haunt of recreational divers. One month into World War II, the Royal Navy battleship HMS Royal Oak was sunk by a German U-boat in Scapa Flow. As a result, barriers were built to close most of the access channels; these had the additional advantage of creating causeways whereby travellers can go from"
"identified, were interred at the naval cemetery in Lyness. ""Royal Oak"" sank with up to 3,000 tons of fuel oil aboard, the precise amount being unknown since such records were lost with the ship. Oil leaked from the corroding hull at an increased rate during the 1990s and concerns about the environmental impact led the Ministry of Defence to consider plans for extracting it. ""Royal Oak""s status as a war grave required that surveys and any proposed techniques for removing the oil be handled sensitively: plans in the 1950s to raise and salvage the wreck had been dropped in response"
"a reduced pace to tackle the oil known to be remaining (state for 2012). HMS Royal Oak (08) HMS ""Royal Oak"" was one of five s built for the Royal Navy during the First World War. Launched in 1914 and completed in 1916, ""Royal Oak"" first saw combat at the Battle of Jutland as part of the Grand Fleet. In peacetime, she served in the Atlantic, Home and Mediterranean fleets, more than once coming under accidental attack. The ship drew worldwide attention in 1928 when her senior officers were controversially court-martialled. Attempts to modernise ""Royal Oak"" throughout her 25-year career"
"SS Red Oak Victory SS ""Red Oak Victory"" is a U.S. military Victory ship of the used in the Second World War. She was preserved to serve as a museum ship in Richmond, California, and is part of the Rosie the Riveter/World War II Home Front National Historical Park. She was one of 534 Victories built during World War II, but one of only a few of these ships to be transferred from the Merchant Marine to the United States Navy. She was named after Red Oak, Iowa, which suffered a disproportionate number of casualties in early World War II"
"Empire Oak Empire Oak was a ocean-going tug which was built by Goole Shipbuilding & Repairing Co. Ltd. of Goole. The ship was launched on 15 March 1941 and completed in July 1941. She was torpedoed on 22 August 1941 and sunk by at while a member of Convoy OG 71. She was armed with a 12-pounder and two Hotchkiss machine guns. She also carried two PAC (parachute and cable) rockets. She sailed from Oban on 15 August 1941, captained by F.E. Christian, and joined Convoy OG 71 (Outward Gibraltar). On Tuesday, 19 August 1941, she joined the search for"
"HMS Royal Oak (08) HMS ""Royal Oak"" was one of five s built for the Royal Navy during the First World War. Launched in 1914 and completed in 1916, ""Royal Oak"" first saw combat at the Battle of Jutland as part of the Grand Fleet. In peacetime, she served in the Atlantic, Home and Mediterranean fleets, more than once coming under accidental attack. The ship drew worldwide attention in 1928 when her senior officers were controversially court-martialled. Attempts to modernise ""Royal Oak"" throughout her 25-year career could not fix her fundamental lack of speed and by the start of the"
"Wars. sank here after striking a naval mine on 22 June 1918. In 1920 sank after losing power and drifting into a reef in a storm with the loss of 575 lives. On 28 December 1943, the Battle of the Bay of Biscay was fought between and and a group of German destroyers as part of Operation Stonewall during World War II. sank on 25 August 1944 in position , when she struck a mine. All hands were lost. On 12 April 1970, sank in the Bay of Biscay due to a fire that crippled the submarine's nuclear reactors. An"
"Eli Thomas Reich Vice Admiral Eli Thomas Reich (March 20, 1913 in New York – November 30, 1999 in Arlington, Virginia) was a highly decorated United States Navy officer and World War II submarine commander — the only one to sink a battleship during the war. He is buried in Arlington National Cemetery (Section 30, Grave 950-A). A 1935 graduate of the United States Naval Academy in Annapolis, Maryland, Reich attended the submarine school at New London, Connecticut, then in 1939 became executive officer and engineer on the first . ""Sealion"" was the first US submarine damaged in World War"
"but ""U-47"" had already escaped and was on its way back to Germany. The BBC released news of the sinking by late morning on 14 October, and its broadcasts were received by the German listening services and by ""U-47"" itself. Divers sent down on the morning after the explosion discovered remnants of a German torpedo, confirming the means of attack. On 17 October First Lord of the Admiralty Winston Churchill officially announced the loss of ""Royal Oak"" to the House of Commons, first conceding that the raid had been ""a remarkable exploit of professional skill and daring"", but then declaring"
"later. Blagrove's name is included on the Portsmouth Naval Memorial as his remains were never recovered. His actual gravesite, the wreck of ""Royal Oak"", is a protected war grave and a memorial to all the men who died aboard her stands in St. Magnus Cathedral on the Orkney Islands. The islanders themselves also maintain the memory of those lost on the battleship and an annual ceremony remembers them at the site of the wreck. Blagrove's widow later worked on the efforts to break the codes of the German Enigma machine at Bletchley Park, and his family have made several visits"
"of HMS Royal Oak, ""Delhi"" had just departed for a periodic sweep of the North Sea to enforce the blockade of Germany. While patrolling the Iceland-Faroes Gap, ""Delhi"" captured the freighter ""Rheingold"", and then intercepted and assisted in the scuttling of the blockade-runner ""Mecklenburg"", whose crew scuttled the merchant vessel, and abandoned ship. ""Delhi's"" captain decided that boarding to attempt to salvage the ship was impractical due to the sea state, and instead sank ""Mecklenburg"" with gunfire. Sortieing from Scapa Flow on patrol on 23 November 1939, she joined the cruisers Caledon, Cardiff, Newcastle and the armed merchant cruiser Rawalpindi."
"HMS Royal Oak (1674) HMS ""Royal Oak"" was a 74-gun third rate ship of the line of the Royal Navy, built by Jonas Shish at Deptford and launched in 1674. She was one of only three Royal Navy ships to be equipped with the Rupertinoe naval gun. Life aboard her when cruising in the Mediterranean in 1679 is described in the diary of Henry Teonge. She was rebuilt at Chatham Dockyard in 1690 as a 70-gun third rate. On 24 August 1704, ""Royal Oak"" participated in the Battle of Vélez-Málaga, in the centre division of the combined English-Dutch fleet under"
"training. Physical and logical exposure of Enigma machinery and keying documentation was equally important and was limited, whenever possible. For example, vessels which were expected to encounter shallow water, where Enigma materials could be recovered, were instructed to carry none whatsoever, and instead use the hand cipher (German:Reservehandverfahren) For example, the U-boat U-47, which sank the HMS Royal Oak on the 14 October 1939, carried only a hand cipher. When the Admiral Graf Spee scuttled herself in shallow water, the Enigma machinery and keying documents were already safely stored by the German Naval Attaché in Monte Video. On occasion when"
"Oberleutnant Jeschonnek and six of his crew were taken prisoner; the rest perished. Nine days after the sinking of ""Irish Oak"", on 24 May 1943, Admiral Dönitz ordered a U-boat withdrawal from the Atlantic. Of their operational fleet, 41 U-boats – or 25% – had been lost in Black May, against a total of 50 Allied merchant ships destroyed. The Battle of the Atlantic was over. The crew of the ""Irish Oak"" when she was sunk on 15 May 1943, all of whom were rescued: Eric Jones had been captain of the when it was sunk by gunfire from on"
"from the ""Aguila"" became separated and was lost. ""Empire Oak"" lost 14 out of her 20 crew, she was also carrying 6 survivors from ""Aguila"" and 11 from ""Alva"", nine of these were lost including all from ""Aguila"". Empire Oak Empire Oak was a ocean-going tug which was built by Goole Shipbuilding & Repairing Co. Ltd. of Goole. The ship was launched on 15 March 1941 and completed in July 1941. She was torpedoed on 22 August 1941 and sunk by at while a member of Convoy OG 71. She was armed with a 12-pounder and two Hotchkiss machine guns."
"part of the Rosie the Riveter/World War II Home Front National Historical Park. SS Red Oak Victory SS ""Red Oak Victory"" is a U.S. military Victory ship of the used in the Second World War. She was preserved to serve as a museum ship in Richmond, California, and is part of the Rosie the Riveter/World War II Home Front National Historical Park. She was one of 534 Victories built during World War II, but one of only a few of these ships to be transferred from the Merchant Marine to the United States Navy. She was named after Red Oak,"
"home and abroad through editorials, cartoons, and even a comic jazz oratorio composed by Erwin Schulhoff. One consequence of the damaging affair was an undertaking from the Admiralty to review the means by which naval officers might bring complaints against the conduct of their superiors. During the Spanish Civil War, ""Royal Oak"" was tasked with conducting 'non-intervention patrols' around the Iberian Peninsula. On such a patrol and steaming some east of Gibraltar on 2 February 1937, she came under aerial attack by three aircraft of the Republican forces. They dropped three bombs (two of which exploded) within 3 cables (555"
"World War II battles claimed a disproportionate number of soldiers from Red Oak (although the final casualty statistics tend to disprove the oft-repeated statement that Red Oak suffered more losses per capita than any other American community). In the Battle of the Kasserine Pass in February 1943, forty-five soldiers from Red Oak alone were captured or killed. At the time more than 100 telegrams arrived in Red Oak saying that its soldiers were missing in action. In recognition of Red Oak's extraordinary sacrifice, the city's name was given to a ""victory ship"". The SS ""Red Oak Victory"" has become a"
"during a German air attack caused heavy damage. Repairs took until June 1942. On 31 July 1942, depth charges from the three British sloops ""Erne"", (Lt.Cdr. E.D.J. Abbot, RN), (Cdr. C.B. Allen, RN) and (Lt.Cdr. H. Hill, RNR) sank the in the North Atlantic east of the Azores, in position 36º45'N, 22º50'W. On 29 August 1942, ""Erne"", still under the command of Lt Cdr Abbot, scuttled the Dutch merchant ""Zuiderkerk"" with depth charges. The had torpedoed ""Zuiderkerk"" west-north-west of Lisbon, Portugal in position 40º20'N, 16º02'W. A torpedo had caused extensive flooding of the forward holds, which forced the 56 crew"
"sunk by ""U-513"" on 5 September 1942, while SS ""Rosecastle"" and ""P.L.M 27"" were sunk by ""U-518"" on 2 November with the loss of 69 lives. When the submarine fired a torpedo at the loading pier, Bell Island became the only location in North America to be subject to direct attack by German forces in the Second World War. U-boats were also found in the St. Lawrence River; during the night of 14 October 1942, the Newfoundland Railway ferry, SS ""Caribou"" was torpedoed by German U-boat ""U-69"" and sunk in the Cabot Strait with the loss of 137 lives. Both"
"sunk on 9 January 1945 at Takao, Formosa by aircraft of Task Force 38, United States Navy. The ship was removed from the Imperial Japanese Army list on 1 March. In 1946, the ship was refloated and allocated as a war prize to China and placed under the ownership of China Merchants Steam Navigation Company, Shanghai. In 1947 she was sent to the Hong Kong and Whampoa Dock for repairs. New electrical systems and radar were fitted and her accommodation was rebuilt. During that time the ship was transferred to the China Tanker Co Ltd, Hong Kong and re-entered service"