November 2025 Updates

The following vessel was added to the database:

Nordstrand, sunk 4 September 1939

There are now 15,465 sunken ships on the map. See them all here.

The following 15 convoy routes were added to the World War II Convoy Atlas:

ON-23 – ON-32
ONS-24
SC-107 – SC-109; SC-129 – SC-135

There are now 193 convoys routes mapped.

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.

September 2025 Updates

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

6 records was moved to a better location
1 records was edited

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

The following 20 convoy routes were added to the World War II Convoy Atlas:

SC-47 – SC-65; SC-95

There are now 121 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.

June 2025 Updates

The following changes were made to the database in June:

2 records was moved to a better location
3 records were edited

There are now 15,465 sunken ships on the map. See them all here.

May 2025 Updates

The following changes were made to the database in May:

5 records was moved to a better location
16 records were edited
2 records were deleted
11 records were added

The following vessels were added to the map:

Bankura: a 3,185-ton Italian cargo ship, bombed and sunk on 21 April 1941 in Tobruk harbour.
Caldea: a 2,703-ton Italian cargo ship, torpedoed and sunk by HMS Taku off the coast of Libya on 13 July 1941.
Laura C: a 6,181-ton Italian cargo ship sunk off the toe of Italy on 3 July 1941. The ship was sailing from Messina with supplies for the Italian armies in North Africa when it was torpedoed by HMS Upholder.
Liguria: a 15,354-ton Italian liner initially damaged in Tobruk harbour in a July 1940 bombing raid, subsequently bombed and sunk on 22 January 1941. The ship was salvaged after the war.
Mar Bianco: an 8,443-ton Italian cargo ship, bombed and sunk on 7 December 1943 while at the quay in Zadar, Croatia (Yugoslavia at the time of the incident).
Piave: a 3,229-ton Italian cargo ship scuttled at Assab on 10 June 1941. Six other ships were scuttled by the Italians at the same time before the Allies captured the port the next day. Not all of these are on the map.
Remus Lepri: a Romanian gunboat sunk off the mouth of the Danube River on 11 January 1941 after striking a mine.
S-6: a Russian submarine sunk of the Swedish island of Öland on 30 August 1941 after striking a mine. The wreck was found in 2012.
Salpi: a 2,710-ton Italian cargo ship, sunk off the southeast of Corsica on 9 February 1942 after striking a mine.
Tanjong Katang: a British auxiliary patrol vessel, sunk by Japanese gunfire in Singapore on 9 February 1942.
Trang: a 205-ton British whaler operating out of Singapore when the Japanese attacked the city. The boat was set on fire and abandoned on 14 February 1942 during the Allied evacuation.