In the midst of World War II, the sinking of the HMS Repulse and HMS Prince of Wales off the coast of Malaya in 1941 marked a ...

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.

Today, the battleship HMS Prince of Wales rests upside down 223 feet beneath the waves near Kuantan in the South China Sea. The battlecruiser HMS Repulse lies several miles away from its sister ship.

However, the battleship HMS Prince of Wales and battlecruiser HMS Repulse, which were sailing without air escort, sank 61 nautical miles off the coast of Kuantan on Dec 10, 1941 after intense air ...

The HMS Repulse is one of the British battleships the barge is suspected of looting. It was torpedoed by Japan in 1941. Getty Images ...

Rear Admiral Guy Griffiths (Ret’d), aged 101, was the last survivor in Australia of HMS Repulse, which was torpedoed and sunk in a Japanese air attack in 1941, along with the Prince of Wales off ...

Malaysia detained the cargo ship suspected of pillaging the HMS Prince of Wales and HMS Repulse, the gravesites of Royal Navy sailors killed in late 1941.

Summary and Key Points: The sinking of HMS Prince of Wales and HMS Repulse by Imperial Japan on December 10, 1941, marked a pivotal moment in the Second World War and signaled the end of ...

KUANTAN: The unveiling of a memorial to the battleship HMS Prince of Wales and battlecruiser HMS Repulse, which were sunk off the coast of Kuantan during World War II, is a lesson in history ...

More than 800 sailors were killed when the HMS Prince of Wales and HMS Repulse were torpedoed by Japanese aircraft — three days after the attack on Pearl Harbor.