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 ...

The loss of the Prince of Wales and the Repulse paved the way for Japanese forces to make a successful run on Malaya and ...

The battleship HMS Prince of Wales and the battlecruiser HMS Repulse were sunk by the Japanese three days after Pearl Harbor, and more than 840 men were lost. “In all the war, I never received a ...

Malaysian media reported that illegal salvage operators were believed to have targeted the HMS Repulse and the HMS Prince of Wales, which were sunk in 1941 by Japanese torpedoes. The strike ...

The Story On December 10, 1941, the Allies were still reeling from the staggering Pearl Harbor attacks. The Repulse and Prince of Wales were deployed to the Far East as part of Force Z, a naval ...

Scrap steel, aluminum, brass fittings and ammunition believed to have belonged to the British ships HMS Prince of Wales and the HMS Repulse — both designated war graves — were discovered by ...

(Bernama pic) A memorial has been set up in Teluk Cempedak, Kuantan, to remember two British warships — HMS Repulse and HMS Prince of Wales. The Yang di-Pertuan Agong Sultan Abdullah Sultan ...

KUANTAN, Dec 10 (Bernama) -- The Yang Di-Pertuan Agong Al-Sultan Abdullah Ri'ayatuddin Al-Mustafa Billah Shah today graced the unveiling of a Memorial to two British warships HMS Repulse and HMS ...

The Prince of Wales entered service with the British Navy in early 1941 as the third ship in the King George V battleship class. Able to displace 35,000 tons, the hefty ship was quite formidable.