Battle of the Malacca Strait

Battle of the Malacca Strait
Part of the Pacific theater of World War II
Japanese cruiser Haguro, circa 1936
Date 15–16 May 1945 Location Strait of Malacca, Indian Ocean 4°N 100°E / 4°N 100°E / 4; 100 Result British victory
Belligerents
United Kingdom	Japan
Commanders and leaders
Manley Power	Shigeru Fukudome Shintaro Hashimoto † Kaju Sugiura †
Strength
5 destroyers	1 heavy cruiser 1 destroyer
Casualties and losses
2 killed 3 wounded 1 destroyer damaged[1]	927 killed 1 heavy cruiser sunk 1 destroyer damaged[2]

The Battle of the Malacca Strait, sometimes called the Sinking of Haguro, and in Japanese sources as the Battle off Penang (ペナン沖海戦), was a naval battle that resulted from the British search-and-destroy operation in May 1945, called Operation Dukedom, that resulted in the sinking of the Japanese cruiser Haguro. Haguro had been operating as a supply ship for Japanese garrisons in the Dutch East Indies and the Bay of Bengal since 9 April 1945.