Statistics about Allied losses of men and ships in the Battle of the Atlantic vary widely. Not a lot to go on out there, sad to say. So if you have any good references, please post them here. K? There is a good effort here: http://www.usmm.org/battleatlantic.html To wet your whistle: Continued from: http://ww2db.com/battle_spec.php?battle_id=35 "The victory was achieved at a huge cost, however. Between 1939 and 1945, 3,500 Allied merchant ships (totalling 14.5 million gross tons) and 175 Allied warships were sunk and some 72,200 Allied sailors and merchant seamen were killed. Germany lost 783 submarines and 30,000 sailors in this campaign. __________________ Arctic Convoys List and Timeline: http://ww2db.com/battle_spec.php?battle_id=298
Did you do a double take at ship losses in 1946? See: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_shipwrecks_in_1946 Mines, scuttled U-Boats still hiding a year later...
Searchable database of Ships lost to U-boats http://uboat.net/allies/merchants/ U-boat force combat strength http://uboat.net/ops/combat_strength.html
Warning: Do NOT drop in here unless you have the time... but it is brilliant... History of Convoy and Routing [1945] United States Naval Administration in World War II http://www.history.navy.mil/research/library/online-reading-room/title-list-alphabetically/h/history-convoy-routing-1945.html
Going back to the website that got this thread started... U.S. Merchant Marine in World War II http://www.usmm.org/ww2.html U.S. Merchant Marine Casualties during World War II http://www.usmm.org/casualty.html
British and Commonwealth Merchant Navy http://www.rmg.co.uk/researchers/library/research-guides/the-merchant-navy/research-guide-c10-the-merchant-navy-world-war-two Information resources: http://merchantships.tripod.com/merchantseamentributesources1.html __________________ Some good British information has been saved thanks to the Wayback Machine. British Merchant Navy at War 1939 - 1945 https://web.archive.org/web/20041229092203/http://www.british-merchant-navy.co.uk/CONVOYS.htm
Merchant Navy Fatalities Databases: Convoy Web. http://www.convoyweb.org.uk/ This Searchabe Database lists War Dead 1939-45 of the Merchant Navy and DEMS gunners. It holds 40,195 persons and 3,520 individual vessels. See: http://ww1.convoyweb.org.uk/mem/index.html COLOUR CODING Merchant Service (Died at sea): Navy Blue Navy Blue Merchant Service (Buried ashore): Purple (Note: the date may not be that of the ship’s loss). DEMS gunners: Red. ______________________ Searchabe database on the people who perished or survived attacks by German U-boats during WWII. "This work is still very much in development but we have about one-third of the people who died already listed." http://uboat.net/allies/merchants/crews/ ______________________ US Veterans History Project Searchable Database includes relevant categories such as Coast Guard and the Merchant Marine: http://lcweb2.loc.gov/diglib/vhp/html/search/search.htm