- British Shipping Losses (WW1) -
This list is based on that originally published in Jane's 'Fighting Ships of World War I' in 1919.
| Ship Name | Date of Loss | Location of Loss | Description of Loss |
| BATTLESHIPS | |||
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HMS Audacious HMS Britannia HMS Bulwark HMS Cornwallis HMS Formidable HMS Goliath HMS Irresistible HMS King Edward VII HMS Majestic HMS Ocean HMS Russell HMS Triumph HMS Vanguard |
27/10/1914 9/11/1918 26/11/1914 9/1/1917 1/1/1915 13/5/1915 18/3/1915 6/1/1916 27/5/1915 18/3/1915 27/4/1916 25/5/1915 9/7/1917 |
North Coast of Ireland Cape Trafalgar Sheerness SE of Malta Off Portland Bill Dardanelles Dardanelles Off N. Scottish Coast Gallipoli Peninsular Dardanelles Off Malta Gallipoli Peninsular Scapa Flow |
Mined Torpedoed Internal explosion Torpedoed Torpedoed Torpedoed Torpedoed Mined Torpedoed Torpedoed Mined Torpedoed Internal explosion |
| BATTLE CRUISERS | |||
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HMS Indefatigable HMS Invincible HMS Queen Mary |
31/5/1916 31/5/1916 31/5/1916 |
Battle of Jutland Battle of Jutland Battle of Jutland |
Blown up by gunfire Blown up by gunfire Blown up by gunfire |
| CRUISERS | |||
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HMS Aboukir HMS Argyll HMS Ariadne HMS Black Prince HMS Cochrane HMS Cressy HMS Defence HMS Drake HMS Good Hope HMS Hampshire HMS Hawke HMS Hogue HMS Monmouth HMS Natal HMS Warrior |
22/9/1914 28/10/1915 26/7/1917 31/5/1916 14/11/1918 22/9/1914 31/5/1916 2/10/1917 1/11/1914 5/6/1916 15/10/1914 22/9/1914 1/11/1914 30/12/1915 1/6/1916 |
North Sea East Coast of Scotland Off Beachy Head Battle of Jutland Mersey Estuary North Sea Battle of Jutland North Coast of Ireland Coronel, Chile W. of Orkneys Off East Coast of Scotland North Sea Coronel, Chile Cromarty Firth Battle of Jutland |
Torpedoed Wrecked Torpedoed Sunk by Gunfire Wrecked Torpedoed Blown up by gunfire Torpedoed Sunk by gunfire Mined Torpedoed Torpedoed Sunk by gunfire Explosion in magazine Foundered |
| LIGHT CRUISERS | |||
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HMS Amphion HMS Arethusa HMS Brilliant HMS Cassandra HMS Falmouth HMS Hermes HMS Intrepid HMS Iphigenia HMS Nottingham HMS Pathfinder HMS Pegasus HMS Sirius HMS Thetis HMS Vindictive |
6/8/1914 11/2/1916 23/4/1918 4-5/12/1918 20/8/1916 31/10/1914 23/4/1918 23/4/1918 19/8/1916 5/9/1914 20/9/1914 23/4/1918 23/4/1918 10/5/1918 |
Thames Estuary Off Felixstowe Ostend Baltic North Sea Straits of Dover Zeebrugge Zeebrugge North Sea East Coast of Scotland Zanzibar Ostend Zeebrugge Ostend |
Mined Mined Sunk as blockship Mined Torpedoed/Foundered Torpedoed Sunk as blockship Sunk as blockship Torpedoed Torpedoed Sunk by gunfire Sunk as blockship Sunk as blockship Sunk as blockship |
| MONITORS | |||
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HMS Glatton HMS M15 HMS M21 HMS M25 HMS M27 HMS M28 HMS M30 HMS Raglan |
16/9/1918 11/11/1917 20/10/1918 17/9/1919 17/9/1919 20/1/1918 13/5/1916 20/1/1918 |
Dover Harbour Off Gaza Off Ostend Dvina River, North Russia Dvina River, North Russia Off Imbros Gulf of Smyrna Off Imbros |
Caught Fire/Torpedoed Torpedoed Mined Lost Lost Sunk by Gunfire Sunk by Gunfire Sunk by Gunfire |
| SLOOPS | |||
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HMS Alyssum HMS Anchusa HMS Arabis HMS Arbutus HMS Aster HMS Begonia HMS Bergamot HMS Candytuft HMS Cowslip HMS Gaillardia HMS Genista HMS Gentian HMS Lavender HMS Mignonette HMS Myrtle HMS Nasturtium HMS Primula HMS Rhododendron HMS Salvia HMS Tulip |
18/3/1917 16/7/1918 10-11/2/1916 16/12/1917 4/7/1917 -/10/1917 13/8/1917 18/11/1917 25/4/1918 22-23/3/1918 23/10/1916 16/7/1919 5/5/1917 17/3/1917 16/7/1919 27/4/1916 1/3/1916 5/5/1918 20/7/1917 30/4/1917 |
Off SW Coast of Ireland Off N Coast of Ireland Dogger Bank St George's Channel Mediterranean Atlantic Atlantic Off Bougie Off Cape Spartel Off the Orkneys Off W Coast of Ireland Gulf of Finland English Channel SW Coast of Ireland Gulf of Finland Mediterranean E Mediterranean North Sea W Coast of Ireland Atlantic |
Mined Torpedoed Torpedoed Foundered/Torpedoed Mined Missing believed Torpedoed Torpedoed Torpedoed Torpedoed Mined Torpedoed Mined Torpedoed Mined Mined Mined Torpedoed Torpedoed Torpedoed Torpedoed |
| MINESWEEPERS | |||
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HMS Ascot HMS Blackmorevale HMS Brighton Queen HMS Clacton HMS Cupar HMS Duchess of Hamilton HMS Duchess of Montrose HMS Erin's Isle HMS Fair Maid HMS Fandango HMS Hythe HMS Kempton HMS Kinross HMS Lady Ismay HMS Ludlow HMS Marsa HMS Nepaulin HMS Newmarket HMS Penarth HMS Plumpton HMS Princess Mary II HMS Queen of the North HMS Redcar HMS Roedean HMS St Seiriol HMS Sword Dance |
10/11/1918 1/5/1918 6/10/1915 3/8/1916 5/5/1919 29/11/1915 18/3/1917 7/2/1919 9/11/1916 3/7/1919 28-29/10/1915 24/6/1917 16/6/1919 21/12/1917 29/12/1916 18/11/1917 20/4/1917 16/7/1917 4/2/1919 19/10/1918 2/8/1919 20/7/1917 24/6/1917 13/1/1915 25/4/1918 24/6/1919 |
Off Farn Islands Off Montrose Off Nieuport Chai Aghizi, The Levant Off the Tyne Off Longsand Off Dunkirk Off the Nore Near Cross Sand Buoy Dvina River, North Russia Off Cape Helles Off Spindle Buoy In the Aegean Near the Galloper Off the Shipwash Harwich Harbour Near Dyck Light Vessel Eastern Mediterranean Off the Yorkshire Coast Off Ostend In the Aegean Off Orfordness Off Spindle Buoy Longhope Off the Shipwash Light Vessel Dvina River, North Russia |
Torpedoed Mined Mined Torpedoed Mined Mined Mined Mined Mined Mined Lost in Collision Mined Mined Mined Mined Lost by Collision Mined Missing Mined Mined Mined Mined Mined Sunk Mined Mined |
| TORPEDO GUNBOATS | |||
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HMS Hazard HMS Jason HMS Niger HMS Seagull HMS Speedy |
28/1/1918 7/4/1917 11/11/1914 30/9/1918 3/9/1914 |
Off Portland Bill Near Coll Island, Scotland In the Downs Firth of Clyde 30 miles off the Humber |
Lost by collision Mined Torpedoed Lost by collision Mined |
| FLOTILLA LEADERS | |||
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HMS Hoste HMS Scott HMS Tipperary |
21/12/1916 15/8/1918 1/6/1916 |
North Sea Off the Dutch coast Battle of Jutland |
Foundered after collision Torpedoed Sunk by gunfire |
| DESTROYERS | |||
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HMS Ardent HMS Ariel HMS Arno HMS Attack HMS Bittern HMS Boxer HMS Cheerful HMS Comet HMS Contest HMS Coquette HMS Derwent HMS Eden HMS Erne HMS Fairy HMS Falcon HMS Flirt HMS Fortuno HMS Foyle HMS Ghurka HMS Goldfinch HMS Itchen HMS Kale HMS Laforey HMS Lassoo HMS Lightning HMS Louis HMS Lynx HMS Maori HMS Marmion HMS Mary Rose HMS Medusa HMS Myrmidon HMS Narbrough HMS Negro HMS Nessus HMS Nestor HMS Nomad HMS North Star HMS Nubian HMS Opal HMS Paragon HMS Partridge HMS Pheasant HMS Phoenix HMS Pincher HMS Racoon HMS Recruit HMS Recruit (New) HMS Setter HMS Shark HMS Simoom HMS Sparrowhawk HMS Staunch HMS Strongbow HMS Success HMS Surprise HMS Tornado HMS Torrent HMS Turbulent HMS Ulleswater HMS Ulysses HMS Vehement HMS Velox HMS Verulam HMS Vittoria HMS Wolverine HMS Zulu |
1/6/1916 2/8/1918 23/3/1918 30/12/1917 4/4/1918 8/2/1918 30/6/1917 6/8/1918 18/9/1917 7/3/1916 2/5/1917 17/6/1916 6/2/1915 31/5/1918 1/4/1918 27/10/1916 31/5/1916 15/3/1917 8/2/1917 18-19/2/1915 6/7/1917 27/3/1918 23/3/1917 13/8/1916 30/6/1915 31/10/1915 9/8/1915 7/5/1915 21/10/1917 17/10/1917 25/3/1916 26/3/1917 12/1/1918 21/12/1916 8/9/1918 31/5/916 31/5/1916 23/4/1918 27/10/1916 12/1/1918 18/3/1917 12/12/1917 1/3/1917 14/5/1918 24/7/1918 9/1/1918 1/5/1915 9/8/1917 17/5/1917 31/5/1916 23/1/1917 1/6/1916 11/11/1917 17/10/1917 27/12/1914 22-23/12/1917 22-23/12/1917 22-23/12/1917 1/6/1916 15/8/1918 29/10/1918 2/8/1918 25/10/1915 3-4/9/1919 1/9/1919 12/12/1917 27/10/1916 |
Battle of Jutland North Sea Dardanelles Off Alexandria Off Portland Bill English Channel Off the Shetlands Mediterranean English Channel Off the East Coast Off Havre English Channel Off Aberdeen Coast North Sea North Sea Straits of Dover Battle of Jutland Straits of Dover SE of Dungeness Buoy Start Point North Sea North Sea English Channel Off the Maas Lightship Off the East Coast Suvla Bay Moray Firth Near Zeebrugge North Sea Off the Norwegian Coast Off Schleswig Coast English Channel Outside Scapa Flow North Sea North Sea Battle of Jutland Battle of Jutland Zeebrugge Off Folkestone Outside Scapa Flow Straits of Dover Off Norwegian Coast Off the Orkneys Adriatic On the Seven Stones N Coast of Ireland Near Galloper Lightship North Sea Off Harwich Battle of Jutland Off Schouwen Bank Battle of Jutland Off Gaza Off Norwegian Coast Off Fife Ness Off the Maas Lightship Off the Maas Lightship Off the Maas Lightship Battle of Jutland Off the Dutch Coast Firth of Clyde North Sea Off Nab Light Vessel Gulf of Finland Gulf of Finland NW Coast of Ireland Off Dover |
Sunk by gunfire Mined Lost by collision Torpedoed Lost by collision Lost by collision Mined Torpedoed Torpedoed Mined Mined Lost by collision Wrecked Sunk after ramming sub Collision Torpedoed Sunk by gunfire Mined Mined Wrecked Torpedoed Mined Mined Torpedoed Mined Wrecked Mined Mined Collision Sunk by gunfire Foundered after collision Lost by collision Wrecked Lost by collision Lost by collision Sunk by gunfire Sunk by gunfire Sunk by gunfire Torpedoed Wrecked Torpedoed Sunk by gunfire Mined Torpedoed Wrecked Wrecked Torpedoed Mined Lost by collision Torpedoed Sunk by gunfire Disabled by gunfire/sunk Torpedoed Sunk by gunfire Wrecked Torpedoed Torpedoed Torpedoed Rammed Torpedoed Lost by collision Mined Mined Mined Torpedoed Lost by collision Mined |
| PATROL BOATS | |||
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P12 P26 |
4/11/1918 10/4/1917 |
English Channel Off Havre |
Lost by collision Mined |
| TORPEDO BOATS | |||
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No. 9 No. 10 No. 11 No. 12 No. 13 No. 24 No. 46 No. 64 No. 90 No. 96 No. 117 |
26/7/1916 10/6/1915 7/3/1916 10/6/1915 26/1/1916 28/1/1917 27/12/1915 21/3/1915 25/4/1918 1/11/1915 10/6/1917 |
North Sea North Sea Off the East Coast North Sea North Sea Off Dover Breakwater E. Mediterranean Aegean Sea Straits of Gibraltar Straits of Gibraltar English Channel |
Lost by collision Torpedoed Mined Torpedoed Lost by collision Wrecked Foundered Wrecked Capsized Lost by collision Lost by collision |
| SUBMARINES | |||
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AE1 AE2 B10 C3 C16 C26 C27 C29 C31 C32 C33 C34 C35 D2 D3 D5 D6 E1 E3 E5 E6 E7 E8 E9 E10 E13 E14 E15 E16 E17 E18 E19 E20 E22 E24 E26 E28 E30 E34 E36 E37 E47 E49 E50 G7 G8 G9 G11 H3 H5 H6 H10 J6 K1 K4 K17 L10 L55 |
14/9/1914 30/4/1915 9/8/1916 23/4/1918 - 4/4/1918 5/4/1918 29/8/1915 4/1/1915 17/10/1917 4/8/1915 21/7/1917 5/4/1918 1/12/1914 15/3/1918 3/11/1914 28/6/1918 3/4/1918 18/10/1914 7/3/1916 26/12/1915 4/9/1915 4/4/1918 3/4/1918 18/1/1915 18/8/1915 28/1/1918 18/4/1915 22/8/1916 6/1/1916 24/5/1916 3/4/1918 6/11/1915 25/4/1916 24/3/1916 6/7/1916 - 22/11/1916 20/7/1918 19/1/1917 1/12/1916 20/8/1917 12/3/1917 31/1/1918 1/11/1918 14/1/1918 16/9/1917 22/11/1918 15/7/1916 6/3/1918 18/1/1916 19/1/1918 15/10/1918 18/11/1917 31/1/1918 31/1/1918 3-4/10/1918 4/6/1919 |
Bismarck Archipeligo Sea of Marmora Venice Zeebrugge Mole - Helsingfors Bay Helsingfors Bay North Sea Off Belgian Coast Gulf of Riga North Sea Off The Shetlands Helsingfors Bay North Sea English Channel Off Great Yarmouth N. Coast of Ireland Helsingfors Bay Heligoland Bight North Sea North Sea Dardanelles Helsingfors Bay Helsingfors Bay North Sea Island of Saltholm Dardanelles Dardanelles Heligoland Bight Off Texel Baltic Sea Helsingfors Bay Dardanelles North Sea Heligoland Bight North Sea - North Sea Heligoland Bight North Sea North Sea North Sea Off The Shetlands North Sea North Sea North Sea Off Norwegian Coast Off Howick Adriatic Irish Sea Schiermonnikoog North Sea - North Sea North Sea North Sea Off Texel Gulf of Finland |
Foundered Sunk by gunfire Destroyed by bombs Blown up Rammed Blown up Blown up Mined Lost Ran ashore/Blown up Lost Sunk Blown up Lost Sunk by French Airship Mined Sunk Blown up Sunk Lost Mined Sunk Blown up Blown up Lost Damaged by gunfire Sunk Stranded/torpedoed Mined Wrecked Lost Blown up Sunk Sunk Mined Lost Lost Lost Mined Lost Lost Lost Mined Lost Lost Lost Sunk Wrecked Sunk Lost by collision Stranded Lost Sunk by gunfire Lost by collision Rammed Rammed Sunk Sunk by gunfire |
| AUXILIARIES - ARMED MERCHANT VESSELS | |||
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HMS Alcantara HMS Avenger HMS Bayano HMS Calgarian HMS Champagne HMS Clan McNaughton HMS Hilary HMS India HMS Laurentic HMS Marmora HMS Moldavia HMS Oceanic HMS Orama HMS Otranto HMS Otway HMS Patia HMS Viknor |
29/2/1916 14/6/1917 11/3/1915 1/3/1918 9/10/1917 3/2/1915 25/5/1917 8/8/1915 23/1/1917 23/7/1918 23/5/1918 8/9/1914 19/10/1917 6/10/1918 23/7/1917 13/6/1918 13/1/1915 |
North Sea North Atlantic Off Corsewall Point N Coast of Ireland Atlantic N. Coast of Ireland Atlantic Off Bodo, West Fjord NW Coast of Ireland S Coast of Ireland English Channel Foula Is., Shetlands Atlantic Island of Islay North Atlantic Bristol Channel N Coast of Ireland |
Torpedoed Torpedoed Torpedoed Torpedoed Torpedoed Foundered Torpedoed Torpedoed Torpedoed Torpedoed Torpedoed Wrecked Torpedoed Stranded Torpedoed Torpedoed Mined |
| AUXILIARIES - COMMISSIONED ESCORT SHIPS | |||
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HMS Bostonian HMS Mechanician HMS Quernmore |
10/10/1917 20/1/1918 31/7/1917 |
Off Start Point W of St Catherine's Point Off Tory Island |
Torpedoed Torpedoed Torpedoed |
| AUXILIARIES - ARMED BOARDING STEAMERS | |||
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HMS Duke of Albany HMS Dundee HMS Fauvette HMS Fiona HMS Grive HMS Louvain HMS Ramsey HMS Sarnia HMS Snaefell HMS Stephen Furness HMS Tara HMS Tithonus |
25/8/1916 3/9/1917 9/3/1916 6/9/1917 24/12/1917 20/1/1918 8/8/1915 12/9/1918 5/6/1918 13/12/1917 5/11/1915 28/3/1918 |
E of Pentland Skerries English Channel Off East Coast Off Pentland Skerries Off The Shetlands E. Mediterranean North Sea Mediterranean Mediterranean Irish Sea Solum Bay, W. Egypt North Sea |
Torpedoed Torpedoed Mined Wrecked Foundered Torpedoed Torpedoed Torpedoed Torpedoed Torpedoed Torpedoed Torpedoed |
| AUXILIARIES - SPECIAL SERVICE SHIPS ('Q BOATS') | |||
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HMS Bracondale HMS Bradford City HMS Dunraven HMS Glenfoyle HMS Lady Olive HMS Lady Patricia HMS Penshurst HMS Perugia HMS Peveril HMS Remembrance HMS Stock Force HMS Vala HMS Warner HMS Westphalia HMS Willow Branch HMS Zylpha |
7/8/1917 16/8/1917 10/8/1917 18/9/1917 19/2/1917 20/5/1917 25/12/1917 3/12/1916 6/11/1917 14/8/1916 30/7/1918 21/8/1917 13/3/1917 11/2/1918 25/4/1918 15/6/1917 |
Atlantic Straits of Messina English Channel Atlantic English Channel Atlantic Off Bristol Channel Gulf of Genoa Straits of Gibraltar Mediterranean English Channel - W Coast of Ireland Irish Sea E of Cape Verde Islands SW of Ireland |
Torpedoed Torpedoed Torpedoed Torpedoed Torpedoed Torpedoed Torpedoed Torpedoed Torpedoed Torpedoed Torpedoed Torpedoed Torpedoed Torpedoed Torpedoed Torpedoed |
| AUXILIARIES - FLEET MESSENGERS | |||
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HMS Chesterfield HMS Ermine HMS Osmanieh HMS Princess Alberta HMS Redbreast |
18/5/1918 2/8/1917 31/12/1917 21/2/1917 15/7/1917 |
Off Malta Aegean Sea E Mediterranean Between Stavros & Mudros Mediterranean |
Torpedoed Torpedoed Mined Mined Torpedoed |
| AUXILIARIES - ARMED YACHTS | |||
|
HMS Aegusa HMS Aries HMS Clementina HMS Conqueror II HMS Goissa HMS Hersilia HMS Iolaire HMS Irene HMS Kethailes HMS Marcella HMS Mekong HMS Resource II HMS Rhiannon HMS Sanda HMS Verona HMS Zaida HMS Zarefah |
28/4/1916 31/10/1915 5/8/1915 26/9/1916 15/11/1918 6/1/1916 1/1/1919 9/11/1915 11/10/1917 24/3/1916 12/3/1916 12/11/1915 20/7/1915 25/9/1915 24/2/1917 17/8/1916 8/5/1917 |
Near Malta Off Leathercoat Off Tor Cor Point Fair Island Channel Dardanelles Eilean Chuai, Hebrides Off Stornoway Off North Foreland Off Blackwater Lightship In the Downs Christthorpe Cliff Southampton Harbour Off Longsand Off Belgian Coast Off Portmahomack Gulf of Alexandretta Off Mull Head, Deer Ness |
Mined Mined Beached after collision Torpedoed Mined Wrecked Wrecked Mined Lost by collision Lost by collision Wrecked Destroyed by fire Mined Sunk by gunfire Mined Sunk Mined |
| AUXILIARIES - MISCELLANEOUS | |||
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HMS Ben-My-Chree HMS Campania HMS Dalkeith HMS Duchess of Richmond HMS Fisgard II HMS Lowtyne HMS Majestic II HMS Princess Irene HMS Stirling Castle HMS Thrush HMS White Head |
11/1/1917 5/11/1918 29/3/1917 28/6/1919 17/9/1914 10/6/1918 28/7/1916 27/5/1915 26/9/1916 11/4/1917 15/10/1917 |
Kastelorizo Harbour Firth of Forth San Pietro Island, Sardinia - Off Portland Bill Off Whitby Near Oran Sheerness Off W Coast of Malta Near Glenarm, County Antrim Off Suda Bay |
Sunk by gunfire Lost by collision Sunk Mined Foundered Torpedoed Foundered Destroyed by internal explosion Blown up Wrecked Torpedoed |
| NOTE There were a dozen other Special Service Vessels under 500 tons lost. There were four other Fleet Messengers under 500 tons lost. Also lost:- Motor Launches 18, 19, 40, 52, 55, 62, 64, 110, 121, 149, 191, 197, 230, 247, 253, 254, 255, 278, 356, 403, 421, 424, 431, 474, 534, 540, 541, 561, 566. Coastal Motor Boats 1, 2, 8, 10, 11, 18A, 33A, 39B, 40, 42, 47, 50, 62BD, 67A, 71A, 79A. |
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