Video: 'the sinking of the royal oak-2009'

(Saturday, October 14, 1939, 1:04 a.m. British Summer Time; during  World War II) — German submarine U-47 today torpedoed and sank the HMS Royal Oak, a British battleship anchored at Scapa Flow in Scotland’s Orkney Islands; 833 of the more than 1,200 men aboard were killed, including Rear Admiral Henry Blagrove.