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{{Short description|Bathurst-class corvette}} | |||
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HMIS ''Bengal'' was a part of the [[Eastern Fleet]] during the Second World War and escorted numerous convoys between 1942 and 1945.<ref>{{cite web|last = Kindell |first = Don |url= http://www.naval-history.net/xDKWD-EF1943a.htm |title = EASTERN FLEET - January to June 1943 |work = ADMIRALTY WAR DIARIES of WORLD WAR 2}}</ref> | HMIS ''Bengal'' was a part of the [[Eastern Fleet]] during the Second World War and escorted numerous convoys between 1942 and 1945.<ref>{{cite web|last = Kindell |first = Don |url= http://www.naval-history.net/xDKWD-EF1943a.htm |title = EASTERN FLEET - January to June 1943 |work = ADMIRALTY WAR DIARIES of WORLD WAR 2}}</ref> | ||
On 11 November 1942, ''Bengal'' was escorting the Dutch tanker {{MV|Ondina||2}}<ref name=Visser>{{cite web|last=Visser |first=Jan |url= https://warfare.gq/dutcheastindies/ondina.html |title = The Ondina Story |date=1999–2000 |work=Forgotten Campaign: The Dutch East Indies Campaign 1941-1942}}</ref> to the southwest of Cocos Islands in the Indian Ocean. Two Japanese [[commerce raider]]s armed with {{convert| | On 11 November 1942, ''Bengal'' was escorting the Dutch tanker {{MV|Ondina||2}}<ref name=Visser>{{cite web|last=Visser |first=Jan |url= https://warfare.gq/dutcheastindies/ondina.html |title = The Ondina Story |date=1999–2000 |work=Forgotten Campaign: The Dutch East Indies Campaign 1941-1942}}</ref> to the southwest of Cocos Islands in the Indian Ocean. Two Japanese [[commerce raider]]s armed with {{convert|5.5|in|mm|0|adj=on}} guns attacked ''Ondina''. ''Bengal'' fired her single {{convert|4|in|mm|adj=on}} gun and ''Ondina'' fired her {{convert|102|mm|in|order=flip|adj=on|0}} gun and both scored hits on {{ship||Hōkoku Maru}}, which shortly blew up and sank.<ref name=Visser/> Both ''Ondina'' and ''Bengal'' ran out of ammunition. ''Ondina'' was badly damaged by shellfire and torpedoes, and her captain signaled "abandon ship" before he died. ''Bengal'', seeing there was nothing more she could do, sailed away. | ||
The other raider, {{ship||Aikoku Maru|1940|2}}, machine-gunned the lifeboats with ''Ondina''{{'}}s crew aboard, causing some casualties, picked up the survivors from ''Hōkoku Maru '' and sailed off, believing that ''Ondina'' was sinking.<ref name=Visser/> ''Ondina''{{'}}s surviving crew re-boarded their ship, put out the fires and sailed to Freemantle. ''Bengal'', too, reached port safely.<ref>{{cite web|last = Kindell |first = Don |url= http://www.naval-history.net/WW2CampaignsIndianOcean.htm#hoko |title = INDIAN OCEAN & SOUTH EAST ASIA, including Burma |work = CAMPAIGN SUMMARIES OF WORLD WAR 2}}< | The other raider, {{ship||Aikoku Maru|1940|2}}, machine-gunned the lifeboats with ''Ondina''{{'}}s crew aboard, causing some casualties, picked up the survivors from ''Hōkoku Maru '' and sailed off, believing that ''Ondina'' was sinking.<ref name=Visser/> ''Ondina''{{'}}s surviving crew re-boarded their ship, put out the fires and sailed to Freemantle. ''Bengal'', too, reached port safely.<ref>{{cite web|last = Kindell |first = Don |url= http://www.naval-history.net/WW2CampaignsIndianOcean.htm#hoko |title = INDIAN OCEAN & SOUTH EAST ASIA, including Burma |work = CAMPAIGN SUMMARIES OF WORLD WAR 2}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url= https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3ujZemGqzJo |title = World War II In the Indian Ocean: Ondina and Bengal versus Aikoku and Hōkoku|website=YouTube}}</ref> | ||
==Notes== | ==Notes== | ||