Germany and Great Britain in World War II, fought, which naval battles?

From the summer of 1940 to the summer of 1944, Britain and Germany faced each other across the English Channel for nearly four years, during which the two sides fought countless naval and air battles.

Due to the narrowness of the sea area of the strait, it is not suitable for large warships, and most of the surface battles in the strait area are engaged by light ships below the destroyer.

On the night of October 22, 1943, in the sea near the Seven Islands north of the Brittany Peninsula, a British ** squadron consisting of 1 light cruiser and 6 destroyers encountered a German ** squadron consisting of 5 torpedo boats.

It was the last defeat suffered by the British Navy in a surface engagement during World War II, and it was also the last surface combat victory for the German Navy.

This process was the "Battle of the Atlantic", which was mainly the anti-submarine warfare of the Allies against the German army.

From 1940 onwards, Dönitz, the commander of the German submarine forces, invented the "wolf pack" tactic to deal a major blow to the Allied transport fleet, and of the approximately 21 million tons of ships sunk by the Allies and neutrals, some were sunk by German submarines. In 1942, Britain set up an "Inter-Ministerial Committee on Anti-Submarine Warfare" chaired by Churchill as the decision-making body for anti-submarine warfare. Britain and the United States decided to use aviation as a strategic force for anti-submarine operations in the Atlantic theater, and by 1942, the Allied air anti-submarine forces had reached 3,000 aircraft, with an average of 1 submarine for every 20 to 30 aircraft, making it impossible to approach the convoy and occupy a favorable attack position, effectively covering the transport fleet.

During the entire operation, the Allied air forces sank more than 300 submarines, accounting for their total submarine losses. The German Navy was forced to abandon the tactics of maneuvering large groups of submarines in the second half of 1943 and withdraw its submarine forces from the North Atlantic. By 1944, the Germans were forced to abandon submarine warfare against Allied convoys.

Battle of the Channel: On 24 May 1941, the battleships Prince of Wales and HMS Hood of the British Intercept Fleet were encountered, and after a fierce battle, the Bismarck sank the battlecruiser HMS Hood, the flagship of the British Royal Navy, but was also damaged by the Prince of Wales.

There are only two names for them. The Battle of the Danish Channel (sinking of the Hood and the Bisman) and the Battle of the Estuary of La Plata (filmed, the German ship was wounded and fled to a neutral port, and finally sank itself).

There are encounters like the sinking of the British aircraft carrier HMS Glory.

Operation Tungsten and three subsequent operational attacks, in which the British aircraft carrier sank the German battleship Tirpitz by carrier-based aircraft.

There was also the sinking of the Scharnhorst (this naval battle was the last large-scale naval battle fought by the German and British navies before the end of World War II), these famous ** sunken, but unnamed naval battles.

Britain has always had troops on the European continent, and it was the Anglo-French forces that retreated from Dunkirk. Naval warfare has been a constant of engagement, mainly focused on cutting off the opposing side's lines of communication by sea.

There were no large-scale, name-worthy battles. But there are a lot of fierce single-ship encounters.

For example, a German submarine infiltrated a British harbor and sank the battleship HMS Royal Oak and then retreated.

For example, the two battleships Bismarck and Hood bombarded each other, and Bismarck sank Hood.

Another example is that the British Navy immediately dispatched to avenge the Hood and successfully encircled and sank the Bismarck.

In general, the German Navy was too small, with only three large ships, Bismarck, Scharnhorst and Prinz Eugen, and the rest were submarines. And the submarines are all sneak attacks, and they run away with one shot.

During World War II, Germany and Britain were at war in the English Channel, the Atlantic Ocean, and the Arctic Ocean.

The most important naval battles were the Atlantic and Mediterranean wars.

Naval battles in the Mediterranean.

Battle of the Atlantic.

Battle of the Danish Channel and Battle of the Estuary of La Plata.

As a result, it is needless to think that the German naval power has not yet developed to the point where it can fight these countries. There were only two large battleships, and there were no aircraft carriers. In World War II, fleets without aircraft carriers were generally wiped out quickly.

Compared to this, the British home fleet can concentrate superior forces to fight a war of annihilation.

No, the German Navy had only 2 large battleships, 3 pocket battleships, 2 battle cruisers and several heavy cruisers during World War II.

Britain built 5 Joe 5 battleships before the start of World War II. In addition, it was equipped with aircraft carriers and a number of old battleships left over from the First World War (especially four Queen Elizabeth class), and it was superior to Germany in terms of strength. The German Navy was also well aware of its own gap, so tactically avoided a head-on confrontation with the British, and the surface ships mainly used the attack ship mode to sneak attack the British sea lines of communication.

This tactic ended with the sinking of the "Bismarck" and the replacement of Dönitz from Raeder, and the surface ships of the German Navy existed only as a deterrent to contain the British home fleet.

The strength of the German Navy in World War II could not fight head-on with the British or American Navy, even if the total tonnage of the German Navy was the strongest in World War I, it was only 4.5 million tons, and the total tonnage of the British Navy in World War II exceeded 15 million tons, of which the home fleet had 7.4 million tons.

Although Germany had Bismarck, Tyre batches, three miniature battleships, and many of the world's top heavy cruisers at that time, it encountered the encirclement of Britain, the United States and the Soviet Union, and the result was only four words: died a miserable death! However, if hundreds of U-boats were to help in the battle, and the German generals commanded them properly, they might be able to inflict heavy losses on Britain, the United States, and the Soviet Union.

I believe that the Germans will not be stupid enough to go head-to-head with the above three countries)

This hypothetical question doesn't really tell the whole story, and the Navy's mission during World War II was only to cut off sea lines and secure them. Attacking the enemy's navy is also to better secure transportation. World War II was mainly based on land positions against positions.

At that time, the United States, the Soviet Union and Britain did not have joint combat capabilities, it would be very chaotic, this is not like playing a game that is visible on the screen, it is easy to distinguish between friend and foe, and it is more difficult to fight three-dimensional warfare in space, the underwater submarine cannot identify whether it is its own person, and how can the underwater silent surface know who the sonar is discovering. It would be very chaotic, planes flying around, submarines running around, and battleships not knowing where to hit.

The war took place in 1941, and finally the number of British kings reached 1428 people, and then the number of ships was sunk, and the Welsh pro-ship was repulsed at that time, and then the fuel tank was broken, and later left oil stains in the process of retreating, leaving an ambush in the process of encirclement and suppression by the British Navy.

In this war, one of Britain's strongest warships was killed by the Germans in seconds, and the number of people was also relatively serious, the two warring sides were Britain and Nazi Germany, and the British at that time In addition to the destruction of the warship, the Prince of Wales was also hit hard.

The most glorious achievement of the German army was that the U14 penetrated deep into the British Scarbavrow on the night of October 13, sinking the British aircraft carrier "Royal Oak". This success promoted Dunritz to admiral, inaugurated him as commander-in-chief of the submarine fleet, and enabled him to have direct contact with Hitler. On Hitler's side, he instilled in him such thoughts:

The British could be defeated only by submarine warfare. Dunritz's "wolf pack" wreaked havoc in the Atlantic, inflicting huge losses on the Allies.