Category: updates

October 2025 Updates

The following changes were made to the Sunken Ships database in October:

  • 1 record was moved to a better location

There are now 15,464 sunken ships on the map. See them all here.

The following 58 convoy routes were added to the World War II Convoy Atlas:

  • SC-66 – SC-92, SC-96 – SC-107, SC-110-119, SC-122 – SC-128

The following 2 convoy routes were updated:

  • SC-120 & SC-121

There are now 177 convoys routes mapped.

July / August 2025 Updates

The following changes were made to the database in July & August:

  • 2 records was moved to a better location
  • 1 record was deleted
  • 20 records were edited

There are now 15,464 sunken ships on the map. See them all here.

Updates have been light as I’ve been focusing on mapping convoy routes. I hope to create an interactive mapping application to display this content in the near future. Below are 92 mapped convoy routes. Most of these are from the HX convoy series in 1941 -1943.

September 2024 Updates

The following changes have been made to the database:

  • 7 records were moved to a better location
  • 2 records were deleted
  • 1 record was edited
  • 21 records were added

The following sunken vessels were added to the map:

  • A6, sunk 2 June 1941
  • A20, sunk 2 June 1941
  • Ammon, sunk 17 January 1945
  • Arion, sunk 11 Amarch 1945
  • Christian Russ, sunk 25 July 1943
  • Dockenhuden, sunk 17 April 1945
  • Eilbek, sunk 4 November 1944
  • Ernsriff, sunk 29 July 1944 (constructive loss)
  • Griep, sunk 17 January 1945
  • Haukefjell, sunk 24 February 1945
  • Henry John, sunk 18 June 1944
  • Mangan, sunk 17 January 1945
  • Mannheim, sunk 31 December 1944
  • Oxhöft, sunk 6 November 1944
  • Randwijk, sunk 25 October 1944
  • Rival, sunk 31 December 1945
  • Robert Ley, sunk 24 March 1945 (constructive loss)
  • Schurbek, sunk 12 March 1945 (constructive loss)
  • Stettiner Greif, sunk 6 November 1944
  • Taifun, sunk 3 May 1945
  • Tilly T M Russ, sunk 11 June 1941

Most of these ships were sunk in and around Hamburg, Germany. Read my Instagram post on the topic.

There are now 15,445 sunken ships on the map. See them in an interactive map!

June 2024 Updates

The following changes have been made to the database:

  • 6 records edited (additional links, corrections)
  • 4 records moved to better locations
  • 1 record deleted
  • 6 records added

The following sunken vessels were added to the map:

  • Alsina, sunk November 22 1942 (below)
  • Duquesa, sunk 18 February 1941. Read about it on Instagram.
  • Florida, sunk 22 November 1942 (below)
  • Glenfinlas, sunk 13 November 1942 (below)
  • Koutoubia, sunk 22 November 1942 (below)
  • Teiritsu Maru, sunk 28 July 1945
From left to right, British cargo ship Glenfinlas, French cargo ship Alsina, French armed merchant cruiser Koutoubia, and French cargo ship Florida, all sunk after being bombed by German aircraft.

See them on the map.

April 2023 Updates

Updates for the month:

  • 129 records edited (additional links, spelling corrections)
  • 228 records moved to better locations
  • 2 records deleted
  • 20 new additions

The following vessels were added to the database:

  • V 87 Aosta, sunk 18 February 1942 in the Mediterraean between Tunisia and Sicily
  • Ariosta, sunk 15 February 1942 off the coast of Tunisa
  • Saint Octave, sunk 29 May 1940 at Dunkirk
  • Royal Daffodil II, sunk 7 May1941 at Liverpool – more on Instagram
  • Baicin, sunk 27 February 1943 in the Ligurian Sea
  • Balena, sunk 16 February 1942 in the Bay of Biscay
  • Bella Italia, sunk 9 April 1943 off the southeast coast of Sardinia
  • Ben Hur, sunk 13 July 1943 off the coast of Italy northwest of Livorno
  • Cressdene, sunk 17 March 1942 off the coast of England east of Harwich
  • Buenos Aires II, sunk 8 November 1942 off the coast of Libya
  • Cadamosto, 22 December 1941 off the coast of Libya
  • Capodoglio, 26 September 1941 off the coast of Libya
  • Carlo Splendor, 7 July 1943 off the east coast of Sicily
  • Carlotta, sunk 19 June 1942 off the coast of Montenegro
  • Pearl, sunk 17 December 1939 in the North Sea
  • Cinzia, sunk 20 January 1943 off the coast of Libya
  • Città di Agrigento, sunk 20 July 1942 at Mersa Matrouh, Egypt – more on Instagram
  • Colombo, sunk 16 April 1944 in the Gulf of Taranto
  • Dungeness, sunk 15 November 1940 off the coast of Norfolk, UK
  • Constantina, sunk 20 December 1942 off the coast of Tunisia

Visit the dashboard to see them all! Or use the Find-A-Ship app.

Saint Octave in the midst of the wreckage of the recently departed British Expeditionary Force at Dunkirk, August, 1940

March 2023 Updates

Another busy month of updates to the database:

  • 3 deletions
  • 74 edits (better links, corrections)
  • 172 moved to better locations
  • 10 new records

The following vessels were added to the database:

  • Angela, sunk Februay 8, 1943 off the coast of Tunisia
  • Angelo Musco, sunk January 20, 1943 off the coast of Libya
  • Antonietta, sunk December 22, 1940 between Italy and Greece
  • Antonio Landi, sunk April 3, 1942 off the coast of Montenegro
  • Carlo P, sunk February 8, 1943 off the coast of Tunisia
  • Machu, sunk March 22, 1945 off the coast of France
  • Pahang Maru, sunk November 11, 1944 off the coast of Malyasia
  • St Glen, sunk September 6, 1940 off the coast of Scotland
  • U-396, sunk August 27, 1943 north of Scotland
  • U-1206, sunk April 14, 1945 off the coast of Scotland

Visit the dashboard to see them all! Or use the Find-A-Ship app.

January 2023 Updates

I must confess: I was wrong. In last month’s update blog post I said that “These days, since I seemed to have mined most of what is available online there aren’t many changes.” Well, this month I stumbled across an entirely new source of data.

I am referring to the UK Hydrographic Office’s Admiralty Maritime Data Solutions. There they offer a shapefile of 94,000 wrecks from around the world for hundreds of years. Filtering out only those ships that were sunk between 1939 and 1945 leaves about 4,000 records. Though the wrecks can be found all around the world, the majority of the shipwrecks in the database for the time period that I am looking at are around the UK (see map), not surprisingly. I am happy to report that it appears that I have 97% of the shipwrecks on their list.

The UK Hydrographic data isn’t perfect. There are duplicate records, records putting ships well inland and a number that are listed as NameProbably? But it’s another data source and it has inspired me to dig deeper on some of the wrecks.

As a result, this month’s update is considerable:

  • 54 additions (not all because of the UK Hydrographic list)
  • 4 deletions (all duplicates)
  • 387 records were moved to more accurate locations
  • 5 other edits

I expect the next month or two to be similar as I wade through the remaining 2/3 of the data.

See the new additions and changes on the map!