Provided for Singapore to greatly help deter Japanese advances in your community, the battleship Prince of Wales and battle cruiser Repulse had been symbols of British naval power. On December 8th, 1941,these two money ships, escorted by two E Class destroyers (HMS Electra, HMS Express), one S Class destroyer (HMS Tenedos), as well as the Australian navy destroyer HMAS Vampire, sent from Singapore to strike a Japanese intrusion force. This objective ended up being aborted and the team,minus the detached HMS Tenedos, turned straight back towards Singapore. However, they'd been already spotted by Japanese aircraft and submarines, as well as in the ensuing bomb and torpedo attackby bombers, both money vessels were sunk.
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