The HMS Electra was launched by the British Navy on February 15, 1934. This navy ship was first deployment in 1935 to the Mediterranean during the Abyssinian crisis.
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The HMS Electra was sunk by the Japanese on February 27, 1942, in the Battle of the Java Sea.
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This is one of many ships the British should have used to defend Ethiopia, but instead stood idle and paid the ultimate price of
destruction in the end. Had these ships stood to defend Ethiopia, during Italy’s aggression, their fate might have been much different.
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(Sources: World War II Shipwrecks in the Java Sea; The Great Ships: British Battleships in World War II)
The HMS Electra was launched by the British Navy on February
