HMS Royal Oak (1914)

Type:
Battleship
Class:
Builder:
Devonport Dockyard
Plymouth, England
Pennant Number:
08
Ordered:
1913
Launched:
November 17, 1914
Keel Laid:
January 15, 1914
Commissioned:


May 1916
Fate:

Sunk Oct. 14, 1939 by U-47 (torpedo).

Location: Scapa Flow, Orkney Islands, Scotland.
(58.55N - 02.59W)

At least 833 crewmen killed, about 375 survivors.



Builder's Data
Page published Mar. 6, 2007