Given to Singapore to greatly help deter Japanese advances inside community, the battleship Prince of Wales and battle cruiser Repulse are symbols of British naval energy. On December 8th, 1941,these two cash vessels, escorted by two E course destroyers (HMS Electra, HMS Express), one S Class destroyer (HMS Tenedos), along with the Australian navy destroyer HMAS Vampire, sent from Singapore hitting a Japanese intrusion force. This objective wound up being aborted as well as the team,minus the detached HMS Tenedos, switched right back towards Singapore. However, they would been recently spotted by Japanese aircraft and submarines, plus in ensuing bomb and torpedo attackby bombers, both money vessels had been sunk.
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