Finding ships lost during wartime
First World War (1914-18)
Lloyd`s War Losses: the First World War. Casualties to
shipping through enemy causes 1914-1918. Lloyd`s of London Press,
1990 A reprint of hand-written records compiled during the
First World War, and now held in the Guildhall Library, this is the
most useful source of information on British (and some allied and
neutral) ships sunk or damaged by enemy action. Gives name, flag
and tonnage of ship, date sunk, position, voyage and cargo, and how
sunk (submarine, mine, cruiser). Lists ships destroyed or damaged
through enemy action, as well as those captured or detained in
enemy ports, and vessels which went missing. British vessels lost at sea 1914-18. Patrick Stephens,
1977 This is a reprint of an official
publication: Navy Losses and Merchant Shipping
(Losses), originally produced by His Majesty`s Stationery
Office in 1919. The original official publication contained a
number of errors not corrected in this edition. British Merchant Ships Sunk by U-boats in the 1914-1918
War. AJ Tennent, 1990 Includes details of all merchant ships over 500 gross
tons sunk by German or Austro-Hungarian submarines. The ships are
listed by owner, and for each ship is given name, tonnage, date
built, date of loss, how sunk, by which submarine, position,
voyage, cargo and number on board lost.
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