What is HMS Royal Oak?
{{DISPLAYTITLE:HMS ''Royal Oak''}} '''HMS ''Royal Oak''''' was a British [[battleship]]. It was built in 1916 and fought in the [[Battle of Jutland]] the same year. On 14 October 1939, soon after the start of [[World War II]], it was sunk in [[Scapa Flow]] in [[Orkney]], [[Scotland]] by the German [[submarine]] ''U-47''. 835 people on the ship died when it sank, including the ship's [[admiral]] Sir Henry Blagrove. Many of the dead were boys younger than 16. The sinking affected people from both Germany and Britain: the commander of the German submarine, Günther Prien, was given a medal by [[Adolf Hitler]], and the British quickly built sea walls to stop such a thing happening again. Every year, Navy divers put a flag on the ship's stern. [[Category:British warships|Royal Oak]] {{multistub|military|UK}}