Ship Type Date Action HMS Courageous (Royal Navy) Fleet aircraft carrier 17 September 1939 Torpedoed by submarine U-29 HMS Royal Oak (Royal Navy) Battleship 14 October 1939 Torpedoed at anchor by submarine U-47 HNoMS Eidsvold (Royal Norwegian Navy) Coastal defence ship 9 April 1940 Torpedoed in Narvik harbor by destroyer Z21 Wilhelm Heidkamp HNoMS Norge (Royal Norwegian Navy) Coastal defence ship 9 April 1940 Torpedoed in Narvik harbor by destroyer Z11 Bernd von Arnim Jaguar (French Navy) Large destroyer 23 May 1940 Torpedoed by torpedo boats (E-boats) S21 and S23 HMS Glorious (Royal Navy) Fleet aircraft carrier 8 June 1940 Sunk by battleships Gneisenau and Scharnhorst HMS Hood (Royal Navy) Battlecruiser 24 May 1941 Sunk by the battleship Bismarck HMS Ark Royal (Royal Navy) Fleet aircraft carrier 14 November 1941 Torpedoed by submarine U-81 on 13 November, sank while under tow to Gibraltar HMAS Sydney (Royal Australian Navy) Light cruiser 19 November 1941 Sunk by Kormoran.