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The HMS Campbeltown exploded at noon on 28 March 1942 rendering the dock useless until 1948. Only 228 of the 611 men who embarked on the mission managed to return Britain but the mission itself was a success. It was rammed into the dock, as the British Commandos stormed the facilities in order to destroy machinery and other structures. In 1942, the Campbeltown was loaded with explosives and embarked on Operation Chariot - the mission to destroy the heavily defended Normandie dry dock at St Nazaire. It wasn't long before the destroyer was essentially obsolete, but it was still useful and put to good use too. This ship was first launched by the US Navy in 1919 as the USS Buchanan, but later transferred to the Royal Navy to support the war effort and renamed as HMS Campbeltown. The HMS Campbeltown is another warship that's most well-known for its interesting end. It was decommissioned in 1919 and scrapped two years later. It was the first capital ship to be powered by steam turbines which made it the fastest battleship in the world at the time, topping out at 21 knots.ĭespite all the advancements, the HMS Dreadnought didn't really engage in many significant battles and was best known for the ramming and sinking of German submarine SM U-29. It had 10 large 30cm guns, 27 12-pdr (7.6cm) guns and five torpedo tubes too. The Dreadnought was designed to be faster and capable of firing heavy ordinance at a much longer range. Even the battleships that came before it were then known as "pre-dreadnoughts". A generation of warships followed with entire classes named after this single vessel. This ship launched in 1906 and hit the waters with such incredible technological advancements that it rendered many other ships obsolete.

The HMS Dreadnought graces our list due to being one of the most significant vessels thanks to the revolution it brought to naval power. Despite the order to abandon ship, the attack and scuttling lead to massive loss of life. Thousands of shells were fired at the Bismark to put an end to it and eventually it was so badly damaged that First Officer Hans Oels gave the order to scuttle her. The British then relentlessly pursued the Bismark, attacking it with all manner of vessels including obsolete biplane torpedo bombers. The ship was involved in the Battle of the Denmark Strait where the HMS Hood was sunk by fire from this ship and the Prinz Eugen. It first launched in 1939 but was seen as such a threat that it didn't last long in service. It was a monster of a ship, armed with eight 38 cm SK C/34 guns, twelve 15 cm L/55 guns, sixteen 10.5 cm L/65 guns and sixteen 3.7 cm L/83 guns and twelve 2 cm anti-aircraft cannons. The Bismark, along with the Tirpitz, famously has the title of being the largest battleship ever built by Germany and technically the largest ever built by any European country. Winkelmann/Wikipedia German battleship Bismarck