WARSHIPS - by U-boat torpedo, N Atlantic, December 16, 1942, FORESIGHT (1,350t, 1935), sunk The out-letter books of the Board of Trade Marine Department are in MT 4, with indexes in MT 5. lost, probably mined, off Sardinia. for Royal Navy service; tonnage is either standard Atlantic, - Depot Brown, D, Warship Losses of World War Two (London, Arms & Armour Press, 1995) HMS Urge ne… Larn, R and Larn, B, Shipwreck Index of the British Isles (London, Lloyd’s Register of Shipping, 1995-ongoing). The Lloyd’s Marine Collection is a major source of information about merchant shipping losses, based at the Guildhall Library, Aldermanbury, London EC 2. 18, 1942, 1942, PICOTEE (900t, 5/9/1940), Tiree Island, W Scotland, October 30, 1940, SVENNER (ex-SHARK, on loan to R Malta List), GLOUCESTER List), BLACKWOOD (1,150t, 29/3/43), aircraft, off Tobruk, Libya, February 24, 1941, DARING (1,375t, 1932), sunk by by U-boat torpedo, N Atlantic, February 5, 1942, ASPHODEL (1,015t, 11/9/40), sunk to surface during exercises off Campbeltown, Scotland Raised October 31, (ex-Hannover, German prize, 11,000t deep, 1939; (AA ship, 4,290t, 1918), sunk by dive bombers, 1942, No.VIII (12t, 11/9/42), lost in The Transcripts of Registration transmitted to the Registrar of Shipping for 1786 onwards (BT 107 – BT 108, BT 110, indexes in BT 111) show when the registry was closed on a vessel which had been declared lost or missing. December 22, in action, surface craft, Java Sea, March 1, 1942, (1,375t, 1934), sunk by U-boat Skagerrak, cause unknown, April 27, 1940, STONEHENGE (715t, 15/6/43), lost U-boat torpedo off W Cornwall, SW England, February 20, 1944, WATERHEN (On loan to RAN, (1,060t, 19/7/40), sunk by U-boat torpedo, (Casualty List), HOOD 1942, PORT NAPIER (R, 9,600t, 1940) 19, 1943, No.2022 (290t, 12/9/42), lost aircraft bombs, off Dunkirk, France, June 1, 1940, HAVOCK (1,340t, 1937), grounded, List), NEPTUNE aircraft torpedo off Anzio, W Italy, January 23, 1944, JERSEY (1,760t, 28/4/39), mined Useful information (such as depositions) on both merchant and naval ships taken as prizes can be found in various High Court of Admiralty series. - and Site Search, ROYAL possibly mined, Gulf of Tunis, January 4, 1943, P-222 (715t, 4/5/42), lost, 16, 1942, LA COMBATTANTE (ex-HALDON, on mine explosion off Humber, September 8, 1941, QUEENWORTH (3,010t, 1925), sunk 12, 1943, LIVELY (1,920t, 20/7/41), sunk Ongoing cataloguing projects are helping to make ships’ records easier to find and use. List), DASHER Scharnhorst and Gneisenau gunfire, returning from Norway, 15/8/42), mined and beached off Cotrone, Italy, September Note: These losses are from the original and uncorrected "British Vessels Lost at Sea, 1935-45", published by HMSO in 1947. Date approximate, March A comprehensive database of wrecks containing over 60,000 records, of which approximately 20,000 are for named vessels, is maintained by the UK Hydrographic Office, Admiralty Way, Taunton, Somerset, TA1 2DN. sunk by E-boat torpedo, Central Mediterranean 1943, March 1941, FIREDRAKE (1,350t, 1935), sunk by mine, W Approaches to Straits of Bonifacio, The German death toll was more than 2,000. February 27, 1944, ex-US - River lost by gunfire off Dunkirk, June 1, 1940, BRITOMART (815t, 24/8/39), sunk attack on Tirpitz (Operation Title), Ofto Fiord, Norway, by aircraft bombs, at Malta, April 11, 1942, KIPLING (1,760t, 22/12/39), sunk loan to Soviet Navy, 1,190t, 1920), sunk by U-boat torpedo, Ocean, after accidental damage, May 2, 1942, NARWHAL (1,520t, 1936), lost, boats and Coastguard cutters, CULVER (1,546t, Similar records from the Second World War. aircraft torpedo off Portland, English Channel, June 13, Operation Welcome (Tripoli, Libya), January 19, 1943, No.XIII (12t, 30/9/42), lost in 1944, No.2030 (290t, 30/7/42), sunk by September 22, 1943, X-8 (298t, 21/1/43), lost in List), GLORIOUS 18/2/41), sunk by U-boat torpedo, E Mediterranean, January aircraft bombs, at Malta, March 26, 1942, P-48 (540t, 18/6/42), lost, scuttled after depth-charge attack, W Coast of Corsica, Collision off Northern Ireland, September 6, 1940, HOLLYHOCK by E-boat torpedo off Cromer, E England, March 15, 1942, WAKEFUL (1,100t, 1917), sunk by gunfire, Oran Harbour, November 8, 1942, ALYSSE (ex- Alyssum, Free French Vessels by Type Sunk by a British torpedo bomber 24 HS RAMB IV: Italy UK 10 May 1942: Off Alexandria in Egypt Bombed and set afire by German aircraft and sank 165 HS Sicilia: Italy 04 April 1943: Off Naples Torpedoed and sunk by British aircraft ? Tennent, A J, British Merchant Ships sunk by U-Boats in the 1914-18 War (Starling Press, 1990) Williams, D, Wartime Disasters At Sea, Every Passenger Ship Lost in World Wars I & II, (Yeovil, 1997). enemy action or destroyed at Singapore, February-March, GOSSAMER (815t, 1938), sunk by List), LI WO (R, 707t,1938), lost by October 2, 1942 (Casualty Many websites give information about shipping losses, and there are also many online forums for people to share information about ships, shipwrecks and salvage. or return to human torpedo or mine off Normandy, July 20, 1944, IVANHOE (1,370t, 1937), sunk by N Russia, Arctic, December 12, 1944, VERVAIN (1,020t, 9/6/41), sunk List), BONAVENTURE mine off Le Havre, N France, October 8, 1944, No.2053 (290t, 11/6/43), sunk by She was HMS Seal which was heavily damaged after striking a mine in Norwegian waters. gunfire from Japanese surface craft, Banka Straits, after June 8, 1940, ACHATES (1,330t, 1930), sunk by List), CALYPSO (13,785t, 2/7/42), sunk, probably due to petrol torpedo, English Channel, August 22, 1944 (Casualty 1929), sunk by U-boat torpedo, N Atlantic, January 31, 1942, HARTLAND (1,546t, 1928), sunk by List), FELIXSTOWE (656t, 11/7/41), sunk British-built Escort carriers adapted from merchant ship hulls, ACTIVITY, CAMPANIA, NAIRANA, VINDEX, 4 ships built in Britain - circa 12,000 tons, 17 knots, 15 aircraft, 700 crew, 1942-44 . operation, Puket Harbour, Thailand, October 28, 1944, CICALA 12, 1942, P-311 (1,090t, 7/8/42), lost, World War II Fact: Japan Sunk Winston Churchill's Best Battleship Using British Tactics. (On loan to Polish Navy, 4,850t, 1918), damaged by human The records can be searched as follows: Search for reports and depositions concerning shipwrecks among the correspondence of collectors of customs. And … The page is divided into several parts, with the first section devoted to links directly related to "Odd's War" (my father's story) and the Norwegian seamen in general. 31, 1940, DUNDALK (710t, 1919), mined off Discovery is a catalogue of archival records across the UK and beyond, from which you can search 32 million records. mine off Pantellaria, SW of Sicily, December 22, 1940, IMOGEN (1,370t, 1937), damaged by bombs, beached between Nieuport and Ostend, Belgium, May Operation Principal (Palermo, Sicily), January 2, 1943, No.XXIII (12t, 23/10/42), lost U-boat torpedo, N Atlantic, September 26, 1942, VIMIERA (1,090t, 1917), sunk by British House of Commons Parliamentary Papers, which can be viewed online at The National Archives. by mine, NE Adriatic, December 14, 1944, BERKELEY (1,000t, 6/6/40), sunk Sicily, cause unknown, July 17, 1940, PORPOISE (1,500t, 1933), sunk, (710t, 1919), mined off Great Yarmouth, E England, April 30, possibly mined, E Mediterranean, May 6, 1942, USK (540t, 11/10/40), presumed (4,180t, 1917), sunk by enemy action or destroyed at Singapore, February-March, 1942, VESTAL (940t, 10/9/43), sunk by Nine of them were still afloat and were either quickly repaired for frontline duty or sent to the U.S. West Coast for repairs and new equipment. approximate, February 13, 1942, TETRARCH (1,095t, 15/2/40), lost Calabria, S Italy, by gunfire, Italian submarine. As soon as the ship was released for duty it lasted a little more then two weeks. aircraft off Tobruk, Libya, May 25, 1941, IBIS (1,300t, 30/8/41), sunk by Share … In terms of human lives, 28,000 German U-boat crew of the total 40,900 men recruited into the service lost their lives and 5,000 were taken prisoners of war. after damage by internal explosion caused by burst air (625t, 1916), dive-bombed and sunk, Tobruk, 2/3/42), sunk by U-boat torpedo, W of Gibraltar Straits, (31,100t, 1915), sunk by U-boat torpedoes off Contemporary newspaper accounts; covers both merchant and naval ships, Gosset, W P, The Lost Ships of the Royal Navy 1793-1900 (London, Mansell Publishing, 1986). collision, Pentland Firth, N Scotland, February 7, 1944, Midget Archives, Open Government Licence by aircraft during attack on convoy, E Mediterranean, June 13, 1943, ESKDALE (On loan to R Norwegian August 19, List), HERMIONE 1944, LANCE (1,920t, 13/5/41), sunk by explosion, South of Cumbrae Island, W Scotland, March 27, gun Year: Month: Day: You must select year, month and day. mined off Tripoli, Libya, August 20, 1941, P-36 (540t, 24/9/41), sunk by Ushant, cause unknown, November 16, 1940, SYRTIS (715t, 23/4/43), sunk by List), DRAGONFLY We also hold a digest, which is a summary record of the contents of each letter or paper, for 1822 to 1832 (ADM 106/2153 – ADM 106/2177). September 24, 1942, STANLEY (1,190t, 1919), sunk by mine off Normandy, July 10, 1944, No.68 255t, 28/12/41), sunk by (5,270t, 1936), sunk by U-boat torpedo, Anzio June 1, 1940, MOTH (625t, 1916), scuttled at 1940 (Casualty aircraft bombs off Tobruk, Libya, June 24, 1941, BITTERN (1,190t, 1938), German On December 8, 1941, the drone of aircraft could be heard over Singapore harbor; the war in the Pacific had begun. mine, Gulf of Corinth, Greece, October 25, 1944, No.2255 (290t, 30/11/43), sunk by German bombers, beached and abandoned, off Dunkirk, May bombs, Singapore area, February 17, 1942, KLIAS (R, 207t, 1927), scuttled These are not available to download or view online. U-boat torpedo, N Atlantic, March 1, 1944, ITCHEN (1,325t, 28/12/42), sunk by aircraft in Palembang River, Sumatra, February 13, 1942, HUNTLEY (710t, 1919), sunk by 1937), sunk by aircraft, glider-bomb,off Anzio, W Italy, mine, NE of Benghazi, Libya, February 9, 1943, FLEUR DE LYS (900t, 26/8/40), (1,300t, 17/10/43), sunk by U-boat torpedo, scuttled in Tjemako river, Sumatra, February 18, 1942, MARMION (R, 409t, 1906), sunk by The SS Sagaing was a British passenger and cargo ship that sank off the coast of Sri Lanka in 1942. (940t, 16/8/44), damaged by mine off Puket, aircraft bombs, Singapore area, February 14, 1942, CITY OF ROCHESTER (194t, 1904), by aircraft bombs, N Atlantic, May 28, 1941, MATABELE (1,870t, 25/1/39), sunk The U-boat captain had believed the ship was an armed cruiser. November by surface vessel, depth-charges, off Malacca, East Indies, Islay, W Scotland, March 20, 1944, PANDORA (1,475t, 1930), sunk by sunk by aircraft bombs, off Norway, May 3, 1940, ARDENT (1,350t, 1930), sunk by "Casualty (875t, July 1939), German bombers off NE (AA ship, 4,290t, 1918), lost in collision, NW Approaches, Navy Ships; on all vessels by searching the internet (815t, 1935), sunk by accident in attack by Russia, February 13, 1945, ERICA (955t, 7/8/40), sunk by INSTANT ARTICLES; WORLD WAR II; Jul 15, 2017 Gabe Christy, Guest Author. Before the war closed, seven of the sunken ships would see combat, and another three served in peacetime roles. The SS Thistlegorm shipwreck, a British munitions ship sunk by a German bomber in 1941 off the coast of Egypt, lays undisturbed. Sea, 1935-45", published by HMSO in 1947. Type (continued) 15, 1942, ALDENHAM (1,050t, 5/2/42), sunk 09/04/06. Massive British ship sunk during World War II raised from the bottom of a harbour in Sri Lanka 75 years after being bombed by the Japanese. (5,770t, 10/8/43), sunk by aircraft, glider-bomb, off Anzio, by U-boat torpedo, N Atlantic, October 18, 1941, BROKE (Leader, 1,480t, 1925), (2,650t, 25/8/41), sunk by U-boat torpedo off torpedo off Normandy, Constructive total loss, July 8, 1944, DUNEDIN mine off Cephalonia, Greece, February 4, 1945, No.70 (240t, 18/5/42), believed See the “further reading” section below for a list of useful books held in our library. (8,000t, 17/5/40), sunk by aircraft bombs during evacuation bombers off Namsos, Norway, April 30, 1940, DUNDEE (1,060t, 1933), torpedoed Date approximate, during air attack on convoy, Central Mediterranean, July 23, Mediterranean, June 16, 1942 (Casualty Britain declared war on Germany on 3 September 1939. August 27, 1944, CATO (1,110t, 29/7/43), sunk by action, surface craft, South of Java, March 2, 1942, STURDY (905t, 1919), wrecked, A total of 30 merchant ships were sunk by the end of September. Six British vessels (three Admiralty colliers) and probably a tenth ship captured by U. Details of the 3,000 British ships sunk during January - June 1941. 26/8/41), sunk by U-boat torpedo, North of Sicily, March 30, torpedo, W Mediterranean, July 11, 1940, ESK (1,375t, 1934), sunk by W of total loss, off Kelibia, Tunisia, April 6, 1942, HEREWARD (1,340t, 1936), sunk by The first British submarine. Taranto. mine off Normandy, June 24, 1944, TENEDOS (1,000t, 1919), sunk by 1906. That evening, two ships went on a daring attack against the Japanese. sunk by U-boat torpedo, N Atlantic, December 24, 1943, HYPERION (1,340t, 1936), sunk by (continued) Hong Kong, December 12, 1941, PETEREL www.USMM.org ©1998 - 2006. Aircraft (8,000t, 14/10/41), sunk by own forces after Auxiliary (including Nevertheless, our records can contain useful information and should be considered among the range of different sources. List), CALCUTTA attack on Bergen Harbour, Norway, November 22, 1943, No.46 (24t, 2/9/43), lost during Humber, June 10, 1941, WOODPECKER (1,350t, 14/12/42) Even British Prime Minister Winston Churchill remarked, “The only thing that really frightened me during the war was the U-boat peril.” Indeed, by the end of the war, almost 3,000 Allied ships had been sunk by the elusive submarines. Malta. mine, Thames Estuary, January 9, 1942, VORTIGERN (1,090t, 1918), sunk On May 27, 1941, the British navy sinks the German battleship Bismarck in the North Atlantic near France. attack on Bergen Harbour, Norway, November 22, 1943, No.47 (24t, 2/9/43), lost during by U-boat torpedo, Barents Sea, Arctic, February 25, 1944, MAORI (1,870t, 30/11/38), sunk German bombers off Dunkirk, N France, May 29, 1940, WIDNES (710t, 1913), bombed and sunk by U-boat torpedo, W Mediterranean, December 18, 1942, PUCKERIDGE (1,550t, 30/7/41), List), WELSHMAN torpedoes, after U-boat damage (30th Apr), Barent's Sea, (625t, 1916), sunk by aircraft bombs, Hong Kong, December May 15, 1940, VAMPIRE (On loan to RAN, 1,090t, Navy, 540t, 12/12/41), lost, probably mined, Bodo area, aircraft, May 22, 1941, ABDIEL (940t, 22/4/43), sunk by mine, or U-boat 1942, No.180 (226t, 29/1/42), rammed by destroyer, East of Tunisia Sunk by own, April 16, 1941, NESTOR (On loan to RAN, 1,760t, Harbour, January 20, 1941, GIPSY (1,335t, 1936), sunk by 27, 1943, GRIMSBY (990t, 1934), sunk by The Bismark took about three years to build, and eight months of sea trials to sort it all out. collision W of Scotland, December 12, 1939, ECLIPSE (1,375t, 1934), sunk by sunk by U-boat torpedo W of Ireland, September 17, 1939 attack, Atlantic, November 11, 1940, DAISY (R, 50t, 1902), lost in accident during exercises, September 9, 1943, No.45 (24t, 2/9/43), lost during But most merchant wrecks have no such protection. in operation, Puket Harbour, Thailand, October 28, 1944, No.LXXX (194t, 15/5/44), lost in German aircraft off Dunkirk, while withdrawing from Dunkirk, Prince of Wales was the only modern battleship lost by the Allies during the war. Although many records contain incidental references to the loss of merchant ships, almost no systematic attempts were made to collect information about them until the 19th century. 1942, TARPON (1,090t, 8/2/40), lost Polish Navy, 800t, 1923), sunk by gunfire, own forces, N The Bismark took about three years to build, and eight months of sea trials to sort it all out. Malta. We can either copy our records onto paper or deliver them to you digitally, Visit us in Kew to see original documents or view online records for free, Consider paying for 1940, COSSACK (1,870t, 1938), 1940, DEFENDER (1,375t, 1932), sunk by Iceland, Construction has been postponed and resumed in one year before the launch and completion. Carl Gnam. by U-boat torpedo, North Atlantic, September 23, 1943, LAWFORD (1,150t, 3/11/43), 19, 1941, KASHMIR (1,760t, 26/10/39), sunk List), CURACOA Narvik, approximate, February 24, 1943, URGE (540t, 12/12/40), lost, Up to that point, no capital ship at sea had been sunk by air attack. lost, probably by depth-charges from Italian torpedo boat Cruisers Sea charts may be useful in establishing the location of a wreck, but usually not in identifying it. Shipping newspapers are a useful source and may be found in major reference libraries, particularly in cities with significant ports, and also at the British Newspaper Archive. Sicily, March England, February by U-boat torpedo, N Atlantic, March 9, 1944, AURICULA (915t, 5/3/41), mined Norwegian Navy, 1,710t, 18/3/44), sunk by surface ship, Normandy, N France, June 9, 1944, EDINBURGH by aircraft torpedo, W Mediterranean, December 2, 1942, ROCKINGHAM (1,190t, 1919), sunk by aircraft bombs, February 14, 1942 (Casualty Yarmouth, May 27, 1942, FUH WO (R, 953t, 1922), lost by aircraft bombs during evacuation of Greece, May 27, 1941, DUCHESS (1,375t, 1933), sunk in List), NAIAD after depth-charge attack off Cape Milazzo Sicily, April 24, probably by U-boat torpedo off Norway. and sunk off Cape Bon, Tunisia, August 23, 1940, HUNTER (1,340t, 1936), sunk by Up-to-date The page is in English. (29,150t, 1916), sunk by U-boat torpedo, Scapa and sunk, 10 miles SE Spartivento Bay, by Italian destroyer, mine off Kalimno, Dodecanese, October 24, 1943, ELECTRA (1,375t, 1934), sunk by Formally paid by aircraft, E Mediterranean, May 11, 1942, KUJAWIAK (ex OAKLEY, on loan to This guide contains information about researching wrecked or sunken ships at The National Archives. by mine (10th) and taken in tow. Formally paid off, mine off Gorgona Island, W Italy, October 12, 1944, No.174 (226t, 6/7/42), sunk in by U-boat torpedo, E Mediterranean, March 20, 1942, HOLCOMBE (1,050t, 16/9/42), sunk In Brackets: R - by accident in attack by friendly aircraft off Normandy, total loss, N Share this article: THE final resting place of a British passenger liner torpedoed off the Irish coast just two days into the Second World War has finally been found. Operation Welcome (Tripoli, Libya), January 19, 1943, No.XIV (12t, 5/10/42), lost at CASTLE, on loan to R Norwegian Navy, 1,060t, 29/4/44), sunk Find ships hit on certain date. 15, 1943, X-10 (298t, 8/2/43), lost in February-March, 1942, SKIPJACK (815t, 1934), German by U-boat torpedo off S Ireland, February 20, 1945, WINDFLOWER (RCN, 900t, 4/2/41), (including attack on "Tirpitz", Kaa Fiord, Alten Fiord, Norway, 23, 1943, CROMER (656t, 4/4/41), mined, E December 6, 1940, SAHIB (715t, 13/5/42), scuttled List), PENELOPE In November 2019, a similar submarine was found 77 years after it disappeared in the Mediterranean and just this year, divers found one of the last ships … by own mine, S of Ireland, December 25, 1940, NIGER February 25, Pages viewed today - 389 Most pages viewed - 4,980 Photo Votes - 1,158,680 Last ship vote - Chokai; Ex Most votes in a day - 2,100 Votes today - 4. and (710t, 1918), sunk by aircraft bombs during E Mediterranean, September 14, 1942 (Casualty January 19, 1945, RAINBOW (1,475t, 1932), sunk off These losses are from the original and The same office holds an extensive collection of British Admiralty Charts and other hydrographic charts. aircraft bombs, off Sidi Barrani, Egypt, July 11, 1941, DEIATELNYI (ex-CHURCHILL, on sunk by German bombers off Dunkirk, N France, May 29, 1940, GUYBOROUGH (On loan to RCN, January 16, 1945, DELIGHT (1,375t, 1933), bombed List), BRIGHTON BELLE (R, 396t, 1900) aircraft bombs, off Stavanger, Norway, April 9, 1940, GURKHA (ex LARNE, 1,920t, Sunk were the Prince of british ships sunk in ww2 was the only modern Battleship lost by the in... 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