What are some famous British Navy achievements in World War II?

The British Navy still has a lot of achievements in World War II.

Perhaps the most famous was the raid of British aircraft carrier-based aircraft on the Italian fleet stationed in Taranto in 1940, which inflicted heavy losses on the Italian fleet. In just over an hour, the British Navy sank 1 Italian battleship, severely damaged 2, damaged 2 Italian cruisers and 2 auxiliary ships, and the British lost only 2 aircraft.

In December 1942, in the face of the attacking fleet led by the German pocket battleship Lützov and the heavy cruiser Hipper, the British escort fleet fought fiercely to defend the merchant ships, sank one German destroyer, and severely damaged the Hipper, but its own losses were not very large. After this battle, the German surface ship force was completely thrown into the cold. Hitler forbade surface troops to fight.

The British Navy also provided support to the Army on a number of occasions, including escorts on the island of Malta, support for Crete, and cover for the Dunkirk retreat and the Normandy landings.

The greatest achievement of the British Navy should be regarded as the blow to German submarines, and the German Navy lost 783 submarines, the vast majority of which was attributed to the British Navy. Behind these seemingly mundane and boring anti-submarine warfare, countless supplies were transported by sea to places such as the Soviet Union, the British mainland, and the European continent, effectively supporting the strategic decisive battle. Ensuring the supremacy of the sea and maintaining the safety of shipping routes is the greatest achievement of the British Navy in World War II.

The British Navy has done a lot, and the British Navy was the world's number one power before World War II. The British attacked Taranto, Italy, and set a precedent for sinking a battleship with carrier-based aircraft, which severely damaged the Italian navy at that time, thus firmly holding the sea control of the Mediterranean Sea in their own hands, which also provided supply support for the British battlefield in North Africa. The British navy attacked the French port of Toulon and wiped out the home fleet of Petain**, which was about to surrender to the Nazis.

And throughout World War II, the British Navy fought to the death with Dönitz's wolves on the entire Atlantic route. There was also the British Navy that surrounded and annihilated the most powerful battleship in the world at that time, Bismarck, thus completely suppressing the German Navy under water.

However, the British Navy also had a great failure, the British Navy's Prince of Wales and Counterattack were all annihilated by the Sea of Japan's ** carrier aircraft in the battle to support Singapore, thus completely withdrawing from Southeast Asia and the South Pacific.

In addition, the British Navy had a not very glorious victory, completing the Dunkirk evacuation and saving the lives of 300,000 British and French troops.

Later, the British Navy and the U.S. Navy jointly supported the Sicilian landing operation and Operation Torch.

In fact, the main problem you mentioned was not that the British navy was not strong at that time, but that there was no rival to Britain in the Atlantic and Mediterranean at that time, and Britain's interests in the Indochina Peninsula were naturally not as important as home defense. So Britain did not engage in more head-to-head battles with the Japanese navy. If development in the war is not taken into account, the British Navy was actually stronger than the Japanese Navy and the US Navy.

Because it was not a contest of the same level, the British Navy basically adopted a strategy of encirclement and annihilation against Germany, which was not as good as the battle of opponents of the same level as in the Pacific Naval War.

Battle of Taranto.

For the first time in the world, an aircraft carrier was the protagonist of an offensive operation, and the main force of the Italian Navy stationed in the harbor was severely damaged.

It also provided a combat model for the later Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor.

Ballista program. In order to prevent the Vichy French navy, which had already surrendered, from surrendering to Germany, the British launched a ballista program that inflicted heavy damage on the French navy stationed in Orland Bay. The Germans, having reacted, wanted to force the remnants of the French fleet stationed in the port of Toulon to surrender.

The remnants of the French fleet did the same as the German Navy in World War I, and all the French naval vessels stationed in Toulon sank by themselves.

Since then, the world's fourth-largest navy has been wiped out, except for a few Allied ships and a small fleet stationed in Dakar with the Richelieu as the core.

Hunting the battleship Bismarck, naval battles in the Mediterranean, naval battles of Malta, Normandy, the Dieppe landings, naval battles in the North Sea, etc.

1 United States, 2 Britain, 3 Japan, 4 Italy, 5 Germany, 6 Soviet Union, not to mention, 150 aircraft carriers, more than 10 battleships were built during World War II.

Britain had more than 50 aircraft carriers in World War II, which seems to be more than Japan, but some aircraft carriers are leased to the United States, so the British aircraft carriers themselves are 30 and close to 30 Japanese aircraft carriers (if you add the quality of Japanese commanders, Japanese aircraft carriers slightly surpass Britain, because Japan and the United States are both aircraft carrier fleet battles, and Britain has not fought a regular aircraft carrier battle), the two battleships are also comparable, the quality of Japanese battleships is a little higher, and there are more old British battleships.

The Italian battleships were a large vote higher than the Germans, and the only drawback was the absence of aircraft carriers.

The number of German battleships was not as good as that of Italy, and there was no aircraft carrier. But it still stabilized the Soviet Union, and the Soviet Navy in World War II was just a soy sauce!

I think it should be: 1 USA 2 Japan 3 Great Britain 4 France 5 Italy 6 Germany 7 USSR.

1.United States, 2United Kingdom, 3Japan, 4France, 5Italy, 6Nazi Germany, 7USSR, 8Spain, 9Poland, 10Turkey.

1 USA, 2 Great Britain, 3 Japan, 4 Germany, 5 USSR.

Referring to the Washington Navy Treaty before the beginning of World War II, it is clear that before the beginning of World War II, in terms of total tonnage, the United States and Britain were about the same, and Britain had a little more total tonnage than the United States due to war preparations.

But the aircraft carrier is inferior to the old United States in terms of strike force.

Japan is in the second tier, which can basically reach 70% of the strength of the US Navy, and the third tier is France and Italy, and France is slightly stronger.

Then came Germany and the Soviet Union.

After the end of World War II, the U.S. Navy needless to say, first; 2nd in the British Navy;

There are big discrepancies in wartime data, because all countries are crazy about making and sinking. I'll give it to you before the war.

Britain had 8 aircraft carriers, 12 battleships, 3 battle cruisers, 18 heavy cruisers, more than 200 destroyers and 50 submarines before the war.

Before the war, Japan had 10 aircraft carriers, 10 battleships, 18 heavy cruisers, 25 light cruisers, and more than 100 destroyers.

Before the war, the United States had 8 aircraft carriers, 17 battleships, 18 heavy cruisers, 19 light cruisers, 165 destroyers, and 106 submarines.

China, 3 light cruisers, 59 gunboats and shore defense ships. In fact, gunboats and shore defense ships cannot go out to the open sea, and the strength of the Chinese Navy can only be said to be 3 light cruisers.

So the ranking of naval power in World War II should be 1 Britain 2 Japan 3 United States x China.

Britain was undoubtedly the naval supremacy before the war, and those who say that the United States is stronger than Britain are influenced by modern times. The British Navy dominated the seas for hundreds of years. Trapped the two great hegemons of Europe: Napoleonic France and Nazi Germany.

And I rank Japan ahead of the United States because Japan has more aircraft carriers than the United States, and the United States does not have many navies deployed in the Pacific Ocean, only 3 aircraft carriers and 9 battleships.

According to the Washington Treaty, the tonnage ratio of the United States, Britain, Japan, Italy and France is, that is, Japan ranks third among the world's navies. Germany was allowed to own 35% of the British naval tonnage according to the Anglo-German naval treaty of 1935, while Japan had 60% of the British naval tonnage.

For me, I think the UK is in a very good position to block off the coastline of the whole of Europe. This was very beneficial for the operations of the British Navy. The British Navy once inherited the famous battleship Bismarck of Nazi Germany.

The British Navy performed very well during World War II, setting an unprecedented record of one dozen fours. They imposed a total blockade on the Nazis, which ultimately stifled their development.

The British Navy during World War II was an invincible force, and they helped many fascist countries win battles. And there is almost no record of defeat.