The Danish merchant fleet’s history is varied with ships at one time being laid up, in neutral, Allied and Axis hands. Totaling 868,797 tons when the war began on September 1, 1939, by the end of the war it had been reduced by 44%.
The Sankey diagram explains the demise of the Danish merchant fleet’s in World War II.
Compare Denmark to Belgium.
Sunken Ships of the Second World War 