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The list shows all merchant ships lost to enemy action during the Second World War by month. A second list shows all fishing vessels lost due to enemy action 1939 - 1945.

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 Also included at the bottom is a list of all merchant and fishing ships lost due to other reasons during the war.  

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Deaths (at sea or ashore) and supposed deaths (at sea) which have been notified to the Registrar General of shipping and seamen and recorded as due to enemy action or other causes arising out of the war, comprising :

(1) Seamen of all nationalities who served in British ships, and 

(2) British seamen who served in foreign ships chartered or requisitioned by His Majesty's Government, from the outbreak of war to 31st August 1945, were as follows: -

In Merchant Vessels                                 In Fishing Vessels                               Total

           29,180                                                         814                                              29,994