HMS Prince of Wales naval art prints by Ivan
Berryman. Gallery of naval art prints of the Royal Navy battleship
HMS Prince of Wales.
HMS
Prince of Wales, was built by Cammell Laird and launched on the 3rd May
1939. She served with the home fleet during 1940 - 1941, and in company
with HMS Hood, engaged the Bismarck and Prinz Eugen on 24th May 1941,
but broke of the engagement after receiving damage. She was at Singapore
in October 1941, but was sunk off Malaya, (along with HMS Repulse) by
Japanese Torpedo Aircraft on the 10th December 1941.
Displacement:
35,000 Speed: 28.0kt Complement:
1,553 - 1,558
Armament:
Ten 14 - inch guns, Sixteen 5.25 inch guns, forty-eight 2pdr
anti-aircraft guns.