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Tag : Naval

1939-12-131939-12-17Battle of the River Plate

The British cruisers, Exeter, Achilles and Graf Spree. The heavy German armament damages two of the British cruisers putting into the neutral port of Montevideo for repairs. British forces concentrate. Captain Langsdorrf scuttles the Graf Spree.

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1939-12-12Salmon

German cruisers Leipzig and Nurnberg are damaged by the British submarine Salmon in the North Sea.

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1939-12-04U-36

The German submarine U-36 was torpedoed and sunk in the North Sea by the British submarine HMS Salmon

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1939-11-23Rawalpindi

Despite being hopelessly outgunned, 60-year old Captain Edward Coverley Kennedy RN of Rawalpindi decided to fight, rather than surrender. He was heard to say "Well fight them both, theyll sink us, and that will be that. Good-bye".

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1939-11-211939-11-27Scharnhost and Gneisenau

German battlecruisers cruise the North Atlantic on commerce raiding mission for the first time. Scharnhorst's first wartime operation was a sortie into the Iceland-Faroes passage

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1939-10-14Scapa Flow

The battleship Royal Oak is sunk by U-47 in the supposedly secure anchorage of Scapa Flow. 833 crew are lost.

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1939-09-30Graf Spee

The German raider sinks the merchantman Clement, off Brazil.

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1939-09-25English Channel

The British Royal Navy begins laying mines in the English Channel. Germans begin to lay magnetic mines in British coastal shipping lanes.

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1939-09-20U-27 sunk

U-27 was hunted down and sunk very early in the war. She was the second submarine (after U-39) to be sunk.

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1939-09-17Courageous

British aircrat carrier is sunk by U-29 southwest of Ireland. The submarine is in turn sunk by destroyers in the carrier's escort.

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