When the Prince of Wales went down during World War II, it marked the end of the battleship era. Here's why the naval tech ...

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 ...

Gail Pope is social history curator at the MTG. In 1923 the ‘Empire Cruise’, a goodwill navy tour, departed England, intended ...

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, ...

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

The HMS Prince of Wales and the HMS Repulse, accompanied by four UK destroyers, were on a mission to intercept Japanese invasion convoys in the South China Sea in December 1941.

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.

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.

The battleship HMS Prince of Wales, back left, and the battlecruiser HMS Repulse, next to it, after they were hit by Japanese torpedoes off the eastern coast of British Malaya in 1941.

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 ...

HMS Prince of Wales and HMS Repulse, operating out of Singapore, sank after coming under a fierce attack from land-based Japanese warplanes while attempting to confront a Japanese amphibious ...

HMS Prince of Wales and HMS Repulse, operating out of Singapore, sank after coming under a fierce attack from land-based Japanese warplanes while attempting to confront a Japanese amphibious ...