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!

December 2022 Updates

There were no updates to the database in November but a few in December:

3 records had edits to the date the ship sunk
5 records were moved to more accurate locations
1 new record was added

These days, since I seemed to have mined most of what is available online there aren’t many changes. But occasionally I do come across information that allows me to add in a new record. That was the case for the German corvette UJ 201 Egeria. krnicadive.com has a few shipwreck locations listed on its site, all within the Adriatic off its east coast. One of them was the Egeria. Included on the site is a detailed description of the events that led to its destruction on the last day of February, 1944. For a shortened description of the events, visit my Instagram post on the ship.

Find the ship (and others) on the map.