Last Battleship Lost In Action ?

melvinsrule · Last Battleship Lost In Action ?

Does anyone know which battleship (of any nation) was the last one to be lost in action ? I guess it was probably in the Pacific at the end of WWII. Maybe the Yamato, which was sunk in April 1945 ? Were any battleships lost after that ? I'm discounting anything sunk during the nuclear testing at Bikini Atoll (e.g. the Nagato, a captured Japanese battleship).

Sgt.Squarehead

The General Belgrano? Think

Just a thought

melvinsrule

The General Belgrano was a cruiser, but it must be the largest warship to be lost in action for a while.

kitnut617

I can't remember what it's name was but it was the ship that carried the atomic bomb from the USA to Tinian Island, on the return trip it was sunk by a submarine. There was a movie made about it starring Stacey Keach as the Captain. All I can remember of the movie was all the guys swimming around in shark infested waters after being torpedoed and slowly disappearing before the few survivors were rescued, including the Captain.

Edit: it was the USS Indianapolis
Edit #2: I'm wrong, the Indianapolis was a cruiser too.

puttyfinger

Nagato was the only one to survive the war. Haruna was sunk at her moorings on 28th July 1945 - I'm suspecting if it's a Japanese battleship which was indeed the last sunk in action, it would have been at the battle of Leyte Gulf, which I believe was the last time battleships squared off against each other.

melvinsrule

DavidM

Best place to track the fates of Japanese warships is this site

http://www.combinedfleet.com/

David

puttyfinger

While Wikipedia can't be considered infallible, this page looks pretty comprehensive:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_sunken_battleships

As far as I can make out, it's Yamato for full battle, but Ise and Hyuga were sunk later while at anchor.

linux

Wikipedia has missed out Haruna, which was also sunk on the 28th July. And according to combinedfleet.com, Hyuga had been sunk 4 days earlier in the 24th July attacks. So the last battleships lost in action were Haruna and Ise, both on the 28th July 1945.