 HMS Prince of Wales was a King George V @-@ class battleship of the Royal Navy , built at the Cammell Laird shipyard in Birkenhead , England . She was involved in several key actions of the Second World War , including the battle of Denmark Strait against the German battleship Bismarck , operations escorting convoys in the Mediterranean , and her final action and sinking in the Pacific in 1941 . 
