List of sunken battleships
Sunk in combat
The following ships were destroyed in battle and most are considered war graves.

List of sunken battleships

Section Title: Sunk in combat
Table Section Text: The following ships were destroyed in battle and most are considered war graves.

Name	Navy	Casualties	Date sunk	Location	Condition	Notes	Image

Poltava	Russian Navy	None	5 December 1904	Port Arthur	Scrapped	—	-

Pobeda	Russian Navy	None	7 December 1904	Port Arthur	Scrapped	Though 1922–23 is the most likely date of Pobeda's scrapping, there is some discussion over whether or not she served in the Japanese Imperial Navy as Suwo until being broken up in 1946.	-

Oslyabya	Russian Navy	470–514 killed	27 May 1905	Tsushima Strait	Unknown	First all-steel capital ship to be sunk by gunfire alone.	-

Imperator Aleksandr III	Russian Navy	Lost with all hands	27 May 1905	Tsushima Strait	Unknown	A granite obelisk stands in St. Petersburg in memory of the crew of Imperator Aleksandr III.	Imperator Aleksandr III (1901) 01.JPG

Borodino	Russian Navy	854 killed, 1 captured	27 May 1905	Tsushima Strait	Unknown	—	-

Knyaz Suvorov	Russian Navy	908 killed, 20 captured	27 May 1905	Tsushima Strait	Unknown	—	-

Navarin	Russian Navy	741 killed, 1 captured	28 May 1905	Tsushima Strait	Unknown	—	-

Sissoi Veliky	Russian Navy	47 killed, 613 captured	28 May 1905	Tsushima Strait	Unknown	—	-

HMS Formidable	Royal Navy	547 killed	1 January 1915	50°13′N 3°4′W / 50.217°N 3.067°W Off Portland Bill, English Channel	Unknown	—	-

HMS Irresistible	Royal Navy	150 killed	18 March 1915	Dardanelles	Unknown	A flag from HMS Irresistible, recovered from the ship by Ottoman forces, now adorns a wall at the Istanbul Military Museum.	-

HMS Goliath	Royal Navy	570 killed	13 May 1915	Dardanelles	Unknown	—	-

HMS Triumph	Royal Navy	78 killed	25 May 1915	Near Gaba Tepe, Gallipoli Peninsula	Unknown	—	-

HMS Majestic	Royal Navy	40–49 killed	27 May 1915	40°02′30″N 26°11′02″E / 40.04167°N 26.18389°E Cape Helles, Gallipoli Peninsula	Unknown	—	-

SMS Kurfürst Friedrich Wilhelm	Imperial German Navy	258 killed	8 August 1915	Dardanelles	Unknown	—	-

SMS Pommern	Imperial German Navy	Lost with all hands	1 June 1916	North Sea	Unknown	Only battleship to sink at the Battle of Jutland on either side.	-

Suffren	Marine Nationale	Lost with all hands	26 November 1916	39°10′N 10°48′W / 39.167°N 10.800°W Off Lisbon, Portugal	Unknown	—	-

Gaulois	Marine Nationale	Four killed	27 December 1916	36°15′N 23°42′E / 36.250°N 23.700°E Off Cape Maleas, Aegean Sea	Unknown	—	-

HMS Cornwallis	Royal Navy	15 killed	9 January 1917	35°06′N 15°11′E / 35.100°N 15.183°E Off Malta	Unknown	—	-

Danton	Marine Nationale	296 killed	19 March 1917	38°45′35″N 8°3′30″E / 38.75972°N 8.05833°E Mediterranean Sea	Upright under 1,000 meters (3,300 ft) of water.	—	-

SMS Viribus Unitis	Austro-Hungarian Navy	300 killed	1 November 1918	44°52′9″N 13°49′9″E / 44.86917°N 13.81917°E Pula, Croatia	Unknown	SMS Viribus Unitis was blown up by Italian frogmen while it was being transferred to the newly formed Kingdom of Slovenes, Croats, and Serbs, who had already named her Jugoslavija.	-

SMS Szent István	Austro-Hungarian Navy	89 killed	10 June 1918	44°12′07″N 14°27′05″E / 44.20194°N 14.45139°E Premuda, Adriatic Sea	Capsized under 66 meters (217 ft) of water.	—	-

HMS Britannia	Royal Navy	50 killed, 80 injured	9 November 1918	35°43′N 5°53′W / 35.717°N 5.883°W Off Cape Trafalgar, Strait of Gibraltar	Unknown	—	-

HMS Royal Oak	Royal Navy	833 killed	14 October 1939	58°55′N 2°59′W / 58.917°N 2.983°W Scapa Flow	Capsized under 33 meters (108 ft) of water. Royal Oak sank with about 3,000 gallons of fuel, which became such an ecological concern that the Ministry made plans to remove the oil or even raise the ship and salvage it.	The ship's bell is the centerpiece to a memorial to those who died aboard Royal Oak at St Magnus' Cathedral in Kirkwall.	-

Bretagne	Marine Nationale	977 killed	3 July 1940	Mers-el-Kébir, Algeria	Scrapped	—	-

Kilkis	Hellenic Navy	None	23 April 1941	Salamis Naval Base, near Salamis	Scrapped	—	-

Lemnos	Hellenic Navy	None	23 April 1941	Salamis Naval Base, near Salamis	Scrapped	—	-

Bismarck	Kriegsmarine	2086 killed, 114 captured.	27 May 1941	48°10′N 16°12′W / 48.167°N 16.200°W 650 kilometers (400 mi) from Brest, North Atlantic	Upright and in good condition under 4,791 meters (15,719 ft) of water.	—	-

Petropavlovsk	Soviet Navy	326 killed	23 September 1941	Leningrad	Scrapped	Although the Marat was sunk by two German bombs, the credit for her sinking is often given purely to Stuka pilot Oberleutnant Hans-Ulrich Rudel.	-

HMS Barham	Royal Navy	862 killed	25 November 1941	32°34′N 26°24′E / 32.567°N 26.400°E Off Egypt	Unknown	—	-

USS Arizona	United States Navy	1177 killed	7 December 1941	21°21′53″N 157°57′0″W / 21.36472°N 157.95000°W Pearl Harbor	Heavily damaged as a result of the attack on Pearl Harbor. After being struck off the Naval Vessel Register on 1 December 1942, Arizona was deemed to be in such terrible condition that, unlike most of the other ships around her, she could not be made serviceable again even after salvaging.	The amidships section had served as a ceremonial platform on the wreck but was cut away to make room for today's overlying memorial.	-

USS Utah	United States Navy	64 killed	7 December 1941	21°22′7″N 157°57′44″W / 21.36861°N 157.96222°W Pearl Harbor	Utah capsized during the attack, and was partially salvaged but not recovered. She was later partially righted and pulled closer to shore and away from the channel.	In 1972, a memorial consisting of a 70 ft (21 m) walkway from nearby Ford Island that terminates in a platform with a flagpole and a plaque.	-

HMS Prince of Wales	Royal Navy	327 killed	10 December 1941	3°33′36″N 104°28′42″E / 3.56000°N 104.47833°E South China Sea	Capsized under 71 meters (233 ft) of water. Reported to have been heavily salvaged.	The ship's bell was recovered, restored, and displayed in the Merseyside Maritime Museum in Liverpool.	-

Asahi	Imperial Japanese Navy	16 killed	25 May 1942	10°N 110°E / 10°N 110°E 100 miles (160 km) from Cape Paderan, Vietnam	Unknown	—	-

Roma	Regia Marina	1393 killed	9 September 1943	41°9′28″N 8°17′35″E / 41.15778°N 8.29306°E 30 kilometers (19 mi) north of Sardinia	Capsized, blown in half underneath 1,000 meters (3,300 ft) of water.	—	-

Hiei	Imperial Japanese Navy	188 killed	14 November 1942	9°N 159°E / 9°N 159°E Off Guadalcanal	Located in 2019 upside down in 900 meters (3,000 ft) of water.	—	-

Kirishima	Imperial Japanese Navy	212 killed	15 November 1942	Off Guadalcanal	Located in 1992 by Robert Ballard, Kirishima lies upside down in 1,100 meters (3,600 ft) of water.	—	-

Scharnhorst	Kriegsmarine	1932 killed, 36 captured	26 December 1943	72°16′N 28°41′E / 72.267°N 28.683°E near the Norwegian North Cape	Scharnhorst, heavily damaged by the action of Battle of the North Cape, lies upside down in 290 meters (950 ft) of water.	—	-

Strasbourg	Marine Nationale	None	18 August 1944	Bay of Lazaret	Scrapped	Strasbourg was originally scuttled in Toulon harbor during the scuttling of the French fleet there in 1942, but she was raised in 1943, towed to the Bay of Lazaret, and then sunk by American aircraft 18 August 1944.	-

Jean Bart	Marine Nationale	None	28 August 1944	Toulon, France	Scrapped	—	-

Musashi	Imperial Japanese Navy	1023 killed	24 October 1944	13°7′N 122°32′E / 13.117°N 122.533°E Sibuyan Sea	Heavily damaged by the action of the Battle of Leyte Gulf. Located under 1,000 meters (3,300 ft) of water in several pieces.	—	-

Fusō	Imperial Japanese Navy	1620 killed	25 October 1944	Surigao Strait	Lies upside down in 185 meters (607 ft) of water with pagoda mast snapped off.	—	-

Yamashiro	Imperial Japanese Navy	1626 killed	25 October 1944	Surigao Strait	Lies upside down in 191 meters (627 ft) of water with bow folded back over the keel of the rest of the hull, and engine room collapsed.	Diver John Bennett had claimed to have discovered the wreck of the Yamashiro, but no confirmation has since been forthcoming as of 2013.	-

Tirpitz	Kriegsmarine	950–1204 killed	12 November 1944	69°38′50″N 18°48′30″E / 69.64722°N 18.80833°E Håkøybotn Bay, Norway	Somewhat salvaged after the Second World War.	Gordon Williamson states that fragments of the Tirpitz's armor are still being sold by a Norwegian company.	-

Kongō	Imperial Japanese Navy	1250 killed	21 November 1944	26°9′N 121°23′E / 26.150°N 121.383°E Taiwan Strait	Unknown	Kongō was originally built in England as a battlecruiser, but she was extensively modified into a fast battleship in 1935. She was the only Japanese battleship to be sunk by a submarine as well as the last battleship to be sunk by a submarine.	金剛ポストカード.JPG

Conte di Cavour	Regia Marina	None	23 February 1945	Taranto Harbor	Scrapped	—	-

Yamato	Imperial Japanese Navy	3055	7 April 1945	30°22′N 128°4′E / 30.367°N 128.067°E East China Sea	Broken in half at a depth of 340 meters (1,120 ft) of water. Bow section is upright, while the main section of Yamato is upside down.	A nine-minute video of the 2015 survey that identified the ship is shown at the Yamato Museum at Kure, itself founded a decade prior in 2005 near the shipyards that built Yamato.	-

Haruna	Imperial Japanese Navy	65 killed	24 July 1945	Kure, Japan	Scrapped	—	-

Settsu	Imperial Japanese Navy	None	29 July 1945	Kure, Japan	Scrapped	Settsu had already foundered while attempting to flee from Kure, but American aircraft forced the crew to abandon the ship.	-

Ise	Imperial Japanese Navy	50 killed	28 July 1945	Kure, Japan	Scrapped	—	-

Hyūga	Imperial Japanese Navy	200+ killed	1 August 1945	34°10′N 132°33′E / 34.167°N 132.550°E Kure, Japan	Scrapped	—	-

Sentence(s)

Royal Navy lost the battleship, HMS Irresistible.

final_sentence: Royal Navy lost the battleship, HMS Irresistible.