warspite part one 1939

 why warspite? i start with warspite among the big battleships due to its battle against japs. immediately i hit an obstacle.

if somebody reads a story "on 10 april british warships sank 3 nazi destroyers and damaged 5 which were scuttled. on 13 april  british warships sank 3 nazi destroyers and damaged 5 which were scuttled." whoa! that seems to be the same story... not sinking six total! in addition to selecting the important events and improving sentence structure, i summarize the story of this big warship... only isolating the big ones kuz many small ones were active too.

brit ba' warspite: September 1939 until January 1941

   Warspite,  "fixing ww2db" from September 1939 to January 1941.

here we see a flaw was the battle 10? or 13? repeat? or total 6 sunk?

note: YAY i found a reliable website and BOTH guesses were wrong !!

"on 13 april warspite fired by norway. its group sank nine german destroyers" source:
HMS Warspite - A Personal Account - Historic UK (historic-uk.com)

"nine German destroyers were sunk and the port facilities were badly damaged."

intro:   for the story about ba' w' facing a jap force by bay of bengal: when was its first battle after September 3,  1939, when brit' "declared war" on nazi? 

on April  13 (10 wrong at wiki and ww2db) 1940 by Narvik, Norway,  Warspite "fired at nazi forces." its group sank three German destroyers [on 13th?]+ plus six more. [counting five caused scuttled and one?]

on April 13, 1940, its torpedo bomber bombed a German submarine U-64 which sunk.  its group [with 9 destroyers] sank 3 destroyers,  and damaged 5 others. the nazis damaged three British ships. after germans sank their own damaged ships, 2,600 German sailors served as land troops.

later, w' went thru strait of gibraltor eastward.

on July 9, 1940, south of Italy, w' damaged Italian battleship Giulio Cesar. an Italian convoy met a British convoy. British battleship HMS Warspite hit Italian battleship Giulio Cesare at the range of 26,000 yards, 24 kilometers.  Italian ships withdrew. soon,  Italian warplanes fired at the brits, who retreated. a few days later w' survived a bombing run. in october w' escorted a convoy from egypt to malta isle. in dec' w' shelled italian soldiers in albania. end year. u.s. still avoided war.

  Dates

on July 12, 1940, in nile Sea, Italian bombers attacked British battleship HMS Warspite and cruiser HMS Liverpool. they missed w' but a dud bomb hit Liverpool. it killed 1 and wounded 2. a brit warplane shot down one Italian bomber.

on Oct' 8,  1940, w' and its group escorted a supply convoy from Alexandria, Egypt to Malta isle. 3 ba'  and two minor aircraft carriers [Eagle, Illustrious, carried around 30] 12 cruisers, 16 destroyers, and 6 submarines, escorted four British transport ships.

on Dec' 19, 1940 British battleships HMS Valiant and HMS Warspite shelled Italian troops in Albania when Greek attackd.

 end year. u.s. still avoided war.