RN:
Dido class cruiser HMS Euryalus as completed in 1941, with the full complement of 10 x 5.25-inch guns.
Submarine
P51 setting out from Malta on an offensive patrol passes Submarine
P43 which has just returned to harbour. Mar/Apr 1943
Due to heavy losses early in the war, the Admiralty decided in June 1940 to stop naming submarines in anticipation for greater losses as the war when on. Instead the ships were to be known by their pennant number.
Near the end of 1942 this decision was reversed and the surviving ships finally started receiving names,
P51 &
P43 being named
Unseen &
Unison respectively in 1943. Both survived the war
Crew of HMS Saumarez inspecting the damage suffered during Battle of the Malacca Strait. May 1945
During the action,
Saumarez suffered a 200 mm hit to her funnel (pictured), some light damage to her forecastle from another 200 mm shell and a severed steam pipe from a 5" shell. She was the only British vessel damaged in the engagement.
in return, the Japanese would lose the heavy cruiser
Haguro and the destroyer
Kamikaze would suffer some light damage.
Grumman Avengers flying over the battleship HMS King George V and other units of the British Pacific Fleet when on the way to attack Sakishima targets in support of the American landing on Okinawa.