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The Sinking of HMS Royal Oak - In the Words of the Survivors (Paperback, 2nd Revised edition)
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The Sinking of HMS Royal Oak - In the Words of the Survivors (Paperback, 2nd Revised edition)
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HMS Royal Oak was a Revenge-class battleship of the British Royal
Navy, infamously torpedoed at anchor by the German submarine U-47
on 14 October 1939. Royal Oak was anchored at Scapa Flow in Orkney,
Scotland when she became the first of the five Royal Navy
battleships and battle cruisers sunk in the Second World War. The
loss of life was heavy: of Royal Oak's complement of 1,234 men and
boys, 833 were killed that night or died later of their wounds. The
raid made an immediate celebrity and war hero out of the German
U-boat commander, Gunther Prien, who became the first submarine
officer to be awarded the Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross. To the
British, the raid demonstrated that the Germans were capable of
bringing the naval war to their home waters, and the shock resulted
in rapidly arranged changes to dockland security. Now lying
upside-down in 30 m of water with her hull 5 m beneath the surface,
Royal Oak is a designated war grave. Includes 103 Photographs
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