KUANTAN: The Yang di-Pertuan Agong, Al-Sultan Abdullah Ri'ayatuddin Al-Mustafa Billah Shah today unveiled a memorial dedicated to the sailors of two sunken British warships, HMS Repulse and HMS Prince of Wales at Teluk Cempedak here.

The memorial overlooking the South China Sea was built to commemorate the sinking of battleship HMS Prince of Wales, the pride of the British Royal Navy, and battlecruiser HMS Repulse some 61 nautical miles off the coast of Kuantan.