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Holland flew his flag aboard Hood, which was accompanied by the new battleship HMS Prince of Wales. On 22 May, just after midnight, Electra, Achates, Antelope, Anthony, Echo, and Icarus, escorting the Hood and Prince Of Wales, sailed to cover the northern approaches.
At 0615 hours Rear Admiral Frederic Wake-Walker CinC CS1, flying his flag in the NORFOLK ordered the PRINCE OF WALES to join his flag. The PRINCE OF WALES continued her port turn and fell in with the NORFOLK and SUFFOLK sailing astern of the BISMARCK and PRINZ EUGEN, steering south westerly.
On May 21, 1941, Hood and Prince of Wales left Scapa Flow with six destroyers under the command of Admiral Lancelot Holland flying his flag in Hood, their mission to provide heavy support to the cruisers Suffolk and Norfolk covering the Denmark Strait between Greenland and Iceland––one of the likely routes the German naval squadron would ...
Prince of Wales reached Colombo, Ceylon, on 28 November, joining Repulse the next day. On 2 December the fleet docked in Singapore. [25] Prince of Wales then became the flagship of Force Z, under the command of Admiral Sir Tom Phillips. [29]
No-one seems to have heard of the awful event of 10 December 1941, when HMS Prince of Wales and HMS Repulse were sunk near Kuantan on the east coast of Malaya, by Japanese torpedoes and...
Feb 15, 2023 · The HMS Prince of Wales (53) was one of five King George V-class battleships commissioned during the Second World War. Laid down at a time when both the Washington Naval Treaty and the Treaty of London were still in effect, she was smaller and less powerful than her German counterparts.
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At 0550, Holland gave the order 'G.S.B. 337 L1' directing Hood and Prince of Wales to both engage the left hand German ship bearing 337º, which was presumed to be Bismarck. In reality, it was Prinz Eugen. Aboard Prince of Wales the mistake was realised fairly quickly.
