Broadside view of the British Cruiser HMS Dorsetshire which operated in the South Atlantic and ...

Broadside view of the British Cruiser HMS Dorsetshire which operated in the South Atlantic and the Indian Ocean during the Second World War. On 2 April 1942, Dorsetshire was steaming south and positioned about 100 miles south of Colombo when sighted by a Japanese naval force on an insursion into the Bay of Bengal. She, in company with the cruiser HMS Cornwall were then sunk in a series of fierce attacks by waves of dive-bombing aircraft.