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HMS Ark Royal sinks
Friday, November 14, 1941 www.onwar.com
In the Mediterranean... British carrier Ark Royal, within 25 miles of Gibraltar, succumbs to damage done in the earlier U-boat attack and is abandoned to sink.
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November 14th, 1941
UNITED KINGDOM:
Minesweeper HMS Whitehaven commissioned.
Minesweeper HMS Shepparton laid down. (Dave Shirlaw)
U.S.S.R.: Soviet submarine L-2 of the Baltic Fleet is mined and sunk off Keri Island.
Submarine M-98 of the Baltic Fleet is mined and sunk off Naissaar Island in the Gulf of Finland. (Mike Yared)(146 and 147)
Soviet destroyer Gordy sunk by Finnish mine while participating in the evacuation of Hangö Island in the Baltic.
Soviet submarine SC-211 sunk near Cape Akburnu. All hands lost. (Dave Shirlaw)
GIBRALTAR: Lord Haw-Haw had claimed the sinking of HMS ARK ROYAL so many times that it had become a standing joke with the British. It was no joke today, however, when the great carrier sank 25 miles from Gibraltar after a fight to keep her afloat.
In an attack by U-81 and U-205 yesterday she had been hit amidships by one torpedo from U-81. The ARK ROYAL began to list at once, losing all power and light. For a few hours it seemed as if she could reach Gibraltar under tow by two tugs, her list corrected and steam raised in one boiler. In the early hours of this morning, however, fire broke out in her port boiler room and her list increased to 35 degrees. The ARK ROYAL was abandoned and sank at 6.13 this morning with the loss of only one crew member.
With HMS Illustrious and HMS FORMIDABLE both under repair in the USA, the Mediterranean Fleet is left without a carrier - a parlous situation since Hitler, desperate to supply Rommel, is preparing to order one Fliegerkorps of bombers from Russia to Sicily - a serious threat to Malta and the Royal Navy.
COMMONWEALTH OF THE PHILIPPINES: Hart informed by Navy Department that deployment of the Asiatic Fleet was to be made by him as its commander. (Marc Small)
CANADA: Minesweepers HMCS Clayoquot, Quinte and Ungava arrived Halifax from Esquimalt. DS)
U.S.A.: President Roosevelt at a press conference states:
“The Government of the United States has decided to withdraw the American Marine detachments now maintained ashore in China, at Peiping, Tientsin, and Shanghai.
It is reported that the withdrawal will begin shortly.” (Stuart W. Millis)
ATLANTIC OCEAN: U-561 sank SS Crusader in Convoy SC-53. (Dave Shirlaw)
ML Annenberg goes to jail. yes, that is the daddy of walter annenberg, you see his name all over PBS. he gave hundreds of millions away to various causes, after starting with million dollar stake and a publishing business from his pops Moses.