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HMS Dorsetshire ( pennant number 40) was a heavy cruiser of the Royal Navy in World War II. She was launched on January 29, 1929 at Portsmouth Dockyard, UK. She was named after an English county, now called Dorset. In 1931 she was part of the Atlantic Fleet during the Invergordon Mutiny but the incident was brought to a close before her crew joined the mutiny.Dorsetshire was one of the ships which engaged the German battleship Bismarck in late May 19411941 is also the title of a Steven Spielberg movie made in 1979 see 1941 (film). Events January January 6 Franklin Delano Roosevelt delivers his Four Freedoms Speech in the State of the Union Address. January 10 Lend-Lease is introduced into the United St in the North Atlantic. On 27 May Dorsetshire was ordered to torpedoA modern torpedo is a self-propelled guided projectile that operates underwater and is designed to detonate on contact or in proximity to a target. Torpedoes are weapons that may be launched from submarines, surface ships, helicopters and fixed-wing aircr the Bismarck, which had by that point been crippled by repeated aircraft and naval attacks. Bismarck sank rapidly, and Dorsetshire was able to recover only 115 of her crew from the sea, before being forced to evade a suspected U-boatOctober 1939. U-47 returns to port after sinking HMS Royal Oak''. The battlecruiser Scharnhorst is seen in the background. A U-boat is any of the German submarines of World War I and World War II, as well as the Austro-Hungarian submarines of World War I.. Her captain at the time was Augustus Agar.
On November 21November 21 is the 325th day of the year (326th in leap years) in the Gregorian Calendar. There are 40 days remaining. Events 235 Anterus is elected Pope. 1783 In Paris, Jean-Francois Pilatre de Rozier and Francois Laurent, the marquis d'Arlandes, make th, 19411941 is also the title of a Steven Spielberg movie made in 1979 see 1941 (film). Events January January 6 Franklin Delano Roosevelt delivers his Four Freedoms Speech in the State of the Union Address. January 10 Lend-Lease is introduced into the United St, Dorsetshire was involved in sinking "Raider C", the AtlantisAtlantis known to the Kriegsmarine as Schiff 16 and to the Royal Navy as Raider-C was a converted German Hilfskreuzer (auxiliary cruiser, or merchant or commerce raider) of the Kriegsmarine, which, during World War II, travelled more than 161,000 km in 60, which had preyed on Allied shipping. She also chanced upon the German supply ship Python on December 1December 1 is the 335th (in leap years the 336th) day of the year in the Gregorian calendar. There are 30 days remaining. Events 1640 Portugal regains its independence from Spain and John IV of Portugal becomes king. 1822 Peter I is crowned as Emperor of, 1941, whilst she was refueling U-boats in the South Atlantic. The submarines dived, and one of them fired torpedoes at Dorsetshire which missed. The crew of Python scuttled their ship.
Dorsetshire and another cruiser, Cornwall , were sunk by Japanese dive bombers in the in the Indian Ocean (west of Ceylon) on April 5, 1942. Most of the crew were lost. Captain Agar was among the survivors.
See HMS Dorsetshire for other ships of this name.
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