HMS DUKE OF YORK

SCAPA FLOW 1942


HMS Duke of York was a King George V class battleship. Laid down in May 1937, the ship was constructed on the Clyde and commissioned into the Royal Navy on 4 November 1941.

In mid-December 1941 Duke of York transported Prime Minister Winston Churchill to the United States to meet President Franklin D. Roosevelt.

On 1 March 1942, Duke of York provided close escort for convoy PQ12, along with the battlecruiser Renown, the cruiser Kenya and six destroyers. In October 1942,  she was involved in the Allied invasion of North Africa, her main role being the protection of our aircraft carriers.

On 26 December 1943 Duke of York was part of a task force which made contact with the German battleship Scharnhorst. During the engagement which followed, Scharnhorst hit Duke of York a number of times, but was herself hit by several of Duke of York's 14-inch shells, silencing one of her turrets and hitting a boiler room. After temporarily escaping from Duke of York's heavy fire, Scharnhorst was struck several times by torpedoes, allowing Duke of York to again open fire, contributing to the eventual sinking of Scharnhorst after a running action lasting 10 and a half hours.

In 1945 Duke of York was assigned to the British Pacific Fleet as flagship, but suffered mechanical problems in Malta which prevented her arriving in time to see any action before the Japanese surrendered. Duke of York was laid up in November 1951 scrapped in 1957.



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