Order of Battle
Battle off Penang
(Loss of IJN Haguro)
15 May 1945
Contributed by Dan Muir

Japanese Forces

10th Area Fleet
Vice Admiral Shigeru Fukudome

Sentai 5
    Rear Admiral Shintaro Hashimoto*
CA Haguro*        Captain Kaju Sugiura*
    Damaged by two Mk IX torpedoes
    Sunk after third hit, ~0205Z,  5° 00’ N, 99° 30’ E, 45 miles NW Penang
    Approximately 900 killed, 320 survivors

CA Ashigara, not present

DD Kamikaze    Lt. Cdr. Hitoshi Kasuga
    Detached after initial damage to Haguro, later returned to pick up survivors


British Forces

Force 61, East Indies Fleet
    Vice Admiral Sir John Power, C-in-C, Eastern Fleet

26th Destroyer Flotilla
    Captain Manley L. Power,
DD Saumarez        Captain Power, CBE, DSO (awarded bar to DSO)
    Damaged by several 8in shells
DD Venus              Cdr. G. de Chair, DSC (awarded bar to DSC)
DD Verulam           Lt. Cdr. D. Bromley (awarded DSC)
DD Vigilant            Cdr. W. Argles (awarded DSC)
DD Virago              Lt. Cdr. A.J.R. White (awarded DSC)
DD Verulam, absent for maintenance, sailed later

Other Forces involved:

Group II
    Sailed first, 0600 10th May

21st Escort Carrier Squadron
    Commodore G.N. Oliver
CVE Hunter
CVE Khedive
CVE Emperor
CVE Shah
CL Royalist (F)

Destroyer Flotilla 11
    Captain H. Biggs
DD Rotheram (F)
DD Nubian
DD Tartar (replacing DD Penn, absent with mechanical problems)

Group I
    Sailed second
    Vice Admiral H.T.C. Walker

BB Queen Elizabeth (F)
CL Tromp
DD Tartar
DD Eskimo

Group III
    Sailed third
    Rear Admiral Patterson

CA Cumberland (F)
BB Richelieu
26th Destroyer Flotilla (see above)

Force 70 (Refueling Group)
    Sailed fourth
oiler Echodale
DD Paladin

Patrolling Submarines
SS Subtle            Lt.  B.J.B Andrew
    Patrolling the central channel of the narrows of the Malacca Straits
SS Statesman    Lt. R.G.P. Bulkeley
    Patrolling the eastern channel of the narrows of the Malacca Straits
SS Scythian        Lt. C.P. Thode, RNZNVR
    Patrolling the western channel of the narrows of the Malacca Straits

Force 62
    Sailed from Trincomcalee on 13th May
CL Nigeria
DD Racehorse
DD Roebuck
DD Reboubt
Joined by HMS Rocket, 14th May

Force 67
    Sailed from Trincomcalee on 13th May
oiler Olwen
DD Penn (returned from repair)

*Sunk or lost in this battle

Source:
Sink the Haguro! by John Winton
Japanese Cruisers of the Pacific War by Eric Lacroix and Linton Wells II