Where was the British ship Royal Oak sunk by German submarine U47 in October 1939?
HMS Royal Oak (08) 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 The loss of the outdated ship—the first of the five Royal Navy battleships and battlecruisers sunk in the Second World War—did little to affect the numerical superiority enjoyed by the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
German submarine U-43 (1939) a total loss. German submarine U-43 (1939) German submarine "U-43" was a Type IXA U-boat of Nazi Germany's "Kriegsmarine" during World War II. The keel for "U-43" was laid down in August 1938 at Bremen; she was launched in May 1939 and commissioned in August. Between November 1939 and July 1943, the U-boat conducted 14 combat patrols, sinking 21 merchant ships for a total of , damaging one ship of and another of - enough for it to be declared a total loss. "U-43" was sunk on 30 July 1943 southwest of the Azores by a torpedo dropped by a