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Sinking of HMS Royal Oak

Name: Sinking of HMS Royal Oak – Great Britain factsheet records
Creator: World History Database

Great Britain · Warfare / World War, 2nd. Chronological records rendered directly from the World History Database.

2Records

1939Date range

2Named people

1Places

Chronological records

1939

Neville Chamberlain14 October 1939

Scapa Flow · Warfare / World War, 2nd

A U-47 penetrates the British anchorage & sinks the Royal Oak

Winston Leonard Spencer Churchill14 October 1939

Scapa Flow · Warfare / World War, 2nd

The Royal Oak is sunk in Scapa Flow

Names involved

Neville ChamberlainWinston Leonard Spencer Churchill

Provenance

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