Actually, I did forget one battleship sunk by a battleship in WWII:
Jean Bart (sunk by USS Massachusetts in port, 8 November 1942)
"Asahi was a pre-dreadnought and had no underwater protection. It wasn't even on-par with a "modern" cruiser and hardly counts at all. Especially since she was serving as a tender.."
A battleship is a battleship. Especially since we're discussing in the context of Navy Field, where the ancient pre-dreadnought Mikasa (launched 1900!) is a front-line combat vessel...
"Tirpitz was not sunk by the mini-subs."
Sure it was. If a ship is holed by battle damage and goes underwater, it's sunk. However, It sunk upright and level in a shallow harbor, so like much of the US battle line at Pearl Harbor, the Italian battleships at Taranto, and Jean Bart at Casablanca, Tirpitz was in a condition where it could be repaired and refloated fairly quickly.
If it had been in deeper water, it would have been irrecoverable.
"As for battleships sunk by other battleships, don't forget Jutland, where battlecruisers Indefatigable, Queen Mary, and Invincible were sunk by gunfire from German battlecruiesrs."
Well, your original statement was '...in all of WWII', so I left out WWI combat. I actually think the numbers comparison looks much better for battleships if you only count WWII actions. If we're including WWI sinkings, though, that adds a huge number for the submarine tally.
Submarines:
HMS Formidable (torpedoed by SM U-24 while underway, 1 Jaunary 1915) HMS Triumph (torpedoed by SM U-21 while underway, 18 May 1915) HMS Majestic (torpedoed by SM U-21 while underway, 27 May 1915) Barbaros Hayreddin (torpedoed by HM Submarine E-11 while underway, 8 August 1915) HMS Russell (struck mine laid by SM U-73 while underway, 27 April 1916) Suffren (torpedoed by SM U-52 while underway, 26 November 1916) Regina Margherita (struck mine laid by SM UC-14 while underway, 11 December 1916) Gaulois (torpedoed by SM UB-47 while underway, 27 Deember 1916) Peresvet (struck mine laid by SM U-73 while underway, 4 Jaunary 1917) HMS Cornwallis (torpedoed by SM U-32 while underway, 11 Jaunary 1917) Danton (torpedoed by SM U-64 while underway, 19 March 1917) HMS Britannia (torpedoed by SM UB-50 while underway, 9 November 1918)
Destroyers:
SMS Pommern (torpedoed by HMS Onslaught while underway, 1 June 1916)
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