World War II Swedish Ship Losses
2:a Världskrigets Svenska fartygsförluster

   
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 Last update: 2009-05-18

Ship name
Fartygs namn
When and Where
När och hur
Reason
Orsak
Crew lost
Besättning förlorad
A. K. FERNSTROM 9/10 1943 - Gdynia Allied Air attack 0
ABISKO 11/4 1943 - North Sea Mined 1
ACACIA 12/4 1947 - off Falsterbo Mined 0
ADA GORTHON 22/6 1942 - off Öland Torpedoed by Soviet submarine. 14
ADOLF BRATT 20/12 1939 - Noordengronden Mined 4
AGRA 20/4 1942 - off U.S.A. east coast Torpedoed 6
ALBANIA 23/10 1939 - off England east coast Mined 2
ALGERIA 18/1 1943 - off Netherlands coast Allied air attack 2
ALGOL 13/12 1939 - off Falsterbo Mined 0
ALIDA GORTHON 29/8 1940 - North Atlantic Torpedoed 11
ALLAN     3/1 1948 - off Swinouche Mined 4
AMERIKALAND 2/2 1942 - off U.S.A. Atlantic coast Torpedoed and sunk by U-106 5
ANDALUSIA Not heard of after 21/1 1940 Torpedoed by German submarine U-55 21
ANNA 3/6 1942 -  off Bermuda Torpedoed 0
ANTEN 23/11 1940 - North Atlantic Torpedoed 1
ARA 8/4 1942 - North Sea Mined 0
ARETE 20/4 1942 - Langeland Sound Mined 4
ARGENTINA 6/7 1942 - Skagerack Mined 4
ASPEN 14/7 1941- north off Ijmuiden Allied air attack 2
ASTA 20/1 1943 - off Helsingborg Mined 0
ATLAND 25/3 1943, North Sea Sank after collision 19
ATOS 3/8 1940, south west of Scotland Torpedoed 1
B. O. BÖRJESSON 19/11 1939, off Humber Lightvessel Mined 6
BT V 13/5 1944, Stettin Allied air attack 4
BELGIA 29/1 1941, east coast of England German air attack 6
BENGT STURE 28/10 1942, South Baltic Sea Torpedoed by Russian submarine Shtsh 406 15
BERTHA 11/1 1941, Kongedypet, Copenhagen Mined 4
BISSEN 7/7 1940, North Atlantic Torpedoed 0
BLANKAHOLM 18/8 1942, Caribic Sea Torpedoed 4
BODEN 15/4 1940, Narvik Sunk by German Forces 0
BOJAN 12/6 1942, Sassnitz Mined 0
BRAGELAND 1/1 1943, off coast of Brazil Torpedoed 0
BRASIL 9/1 1943, Norwegian west coast Mined 0
BUENOS AIRES 31/12 1940, off Liverpool Mined 0
C. F. LILJEVALCH 18/8 1942, off Vastervik, Sweden. Torpedoed by Russian submarine L 3. 32
CAJE 27/11 1941 - Off Karlshamn, Sweden. Not heard of after this date. (5)
CALABRIA 22/6 1941, off Ireland Torpedoed 3
CANTON               9/8 1940, North Atlantic Torpedoed by German submarine U-30 16
CARL HENCKEL 21/12 1939, North Sea Torpedoed by German submarine U-21 10
CASTOR 31/3 1941, North Atlantic Torpedoed 15
CONVALLARIA 18/10 1940, North Atlantic Torpedoed by U-46 0
DALARO 12/2 1940, North Atlantic Torpedoed by German submarine U-53 1
DAPHNE 4/12 1940, off Portugal west coast Torpedoed 18
DIANA 5/3 1944, off Borkum British Air Torpedo 2
EKNAREN 1/7 1942, Mozambique Channel, East Africa Torpedoed 0
EKNO 21/6 1942, Helgoland Bay Mined 0
ELGO 22/6 1940, East of Ras Mihr Air attack 1
EMBLA 19/4 1944, France Mediterranean coast English-American Air attack 0
EMILY 11/4 1944, Stettin Allied air attack 0
ERIK FRISELL 19/5 1940, North Atlantic Torpedoed and sunk by German sub U-37 0
EROS 1/1 1943, Greece ark1pelag Grounded and sank 0
ETNA 14/12 1942, North Atlantic Torpedoed 0
FAMILJENS HOPP 24/7 1943, Heroya, Norway Allied air attack 0
FENJA 13/6 1944, off Kali, Turkey Mined 0
FENRIS 5/1 1940, off Sydostbrottets Light Ship Shelled by SC-311 0
FLANDRIA 18/1 1940, North Sea Mined (mines laid by U-9) 17
FOXEN 18/1 1940, North Sea Mined 17
FRAM 1/2 1940, off Scottish Coast Torpedoed and sunk by U-13 9
GAIST 25/9 1947, south Baltic Sea Mined 0
GAPERN              28/7 1943, Hamburg, Germany Allied Air attack 1
GARM 11/9 1941, North Atlantic Torpedoed 6
GERTRUD BRATT 24/9 1939, Skagerack Torpedoed 0
GONDUL               29/5 1943, South Baltic Sea Mined 0
GOTHIA 22/1 1940, North Atlantic Torpedoed by German submarine U-51 12
GUDMUNDRA          7/11 1941, Went ashore near St. Pierre Island Grounded and wrecked 0
GUN 30/9 1939, North Sea Sunk by German Submarine 0
GUNBORG 18/10 1940, North Atlantic Torpedoed 0
GUNDA 19/6 1941, Off Portugal Coast Air attack 0
GUNLOG 27/10 1941, off Netherland Coast Air attack 0
GUSTAF ADOLF 20/10 1939, off Shetland Islands Shelled by German Submarine 0
GUSTAF E. REUTER 26/11 1939, Fair Island Torpedoed by German submarine U-48 1
GWALIA 2/12 1940, 200 nm W off Lisboa,
North Atlantic
Torpedoed by the German submarine U-37 16
GOTEBORG 25/2 1941, North Atlantic Not heard off after this date 23
HAGA 1/5 1940, North Sea Mined ( Mines laid by MTB NARWAL) 4
HAMMAREN 22/8 1942, off Bahia Torpedoed by German submarine U 507 6
HANESTROM V 25/5 1943, off Warnemünde Mined 2
HANSA 24/11 1944, Baltic Sea Torpedoed 84
HEDDA 23/11 1941, off Borkum Mined 0
HEDRUN       16/8 1940, North Atlantic Torpedoed by German submarine U-48 9
HERMOD 13/3 1943, off Terschelling Torpedoed 4
HILDA 21/10 1941, off Netherlands coast Allied Air attack 0
INDUSTRIA 25/3 1943, off Brazil Torpedoed 1
IRIS 15/7 1941, off Scottish Coast Sunk after collision in convoy 0
JANUS 20/10 1940, North Atlantic Torpedoed 4
JAPAN 4/5 1941, off West Africa Torpedoed 0
KAAPAREN 14/6 1942, off Halifax Sunk after collision 0
KEXHOLM 12/4 1941, North Atlantic German Air attack 0
KISA 11/12 1943: Nidingen, Sweden Sank after collision 0
KORSHAMN 17/3 1941, North Atlantic Torpedoed 24
KORSHOLM 13/4 1942, East coast off Florida Shelled by German Submarine 9
LAGAHOLM 2/3 1940, North Atlantic Shelled by German Submarine U-32 1
LARS MAGNUS TROZELLI 1/1 1940, North Sea Torpedoed By German submarine U-58 7
LIANA 16/2 1940, North Sea Torpedoed by German submarine U-14 10
LIBAU 29/6 1944, South Baltic Sea Mined 0
LIDINGO 6/11 1942, Fehmern Belt Mined 0
LIGURIA 29/3 1941, North Atlantic Torpedoed 16
LIMA 12/9 1942, off the coast of West Africa Torpedoed 3
LISTER 16/12 1939, North Sea Torpedoed by German submarine U-59 0
LULEA 11/7 1942, Vastervik Archipelago, Sweden Torpedoed by Russian submarine S 7. 8
MAGNE 14/3 1945, Off Scottish East coast Torpedoed 10
MAJ 27/11 1942, off Swinemünde Mined 1
MANGEN 21/12 1940, 300 nm W Oporto, Atlantic Ocean Torpedoed by the Italian submarine MOCENIGO 8
MARGARETA 9/7 1942, off Swedish East coast Torpedoed by Soviet submarine  S-7 14
MARS 20/12 1939, English East coast Torpedoed by German submarine U-22 7
MARS 21/12 1939, North Sea Torpedoed by German submarine U-21 18
MEGGIE 27/10 1940, off Azorerna Shelled by German Submarine 0
MERTAINEN 22/4 1940, Trondheim Fjord, Norway Sunk after Air attack 0
MESSINA 15/2 1944 - ½ nm off Falsterbo, Sweden. Mined and sunk (later refloated) 0
MILOS 11/3 1943, North Atlantic Torpedoed 28
MODE 20/7 1944, West coast of Sweden Mined 3
MONARK 4/5 1940, Southwest of Norwegian Coast Torpedoed 0
MONGOLIA 13/8 1940, Bay of Kiel, Germany Mined 0
MURIEL 4/10 1945, Off Netherlands coast Mined 1
MURJEK February/ March 1941, Faeroe Island ? 31
NANKING 29/4 1943, off West Africa Torpedoed 0
NARVIK 29/4 1943, off Netherlands coast Torpedoed 0
NEVA 22/1 1943, North Atlantic Torpedoed 19
NILS GORTHON 13/8 1940 - off Irish north coast Torpedoed by German submarine U-60 5
NINGPO ?/12 1941, Hong Kong Sunk by allied forces 0
NORDIA 26/2 1940, off Norwegian coast Sunk after collision 2
NORITA 28/7 1941, North Atlantic Torpedoed 2
NORNA 7/2 1940, North Atlantic Torpedoed by German submarine U-53 18
NYLAND 28/9 1939, off Norwegian coast Torpedoed 0
NÄMDÖ 12/8 1944, Mouth of River Elbe, Germany Mined 4
O. A. BRODIN 17/7 1940, North Atlantic Torpedoed 3
ORANIA 11/2 1940, off Shetland Island Torpedoed by German submarine U-50 14
OSMED 16/2 1940, North Sea Torpedoed by German submarine U-14 13
OSSIAN 15/5 1941, German North Sea coast Torpedoed under air attack 3
PAJALA 18/1 1940, North Atlantic Torpedoed by German submarine U-25 0
PATRIA 19/1 1940, off Netherlands coast Mined (mines laid by U-9) 19
PATRIA 10/5 1944, Möen, Denmark Mined 0
PEGASUS 24/7 1943, off Madagascar Torpedoed 0
PEIPING 9/9 1942, Caribic Sea Torpedoed 3
PRINS CARL 9/1 1946, Hals Barre Mined 4
REMMAREN 22/10 1942, off Norwegian coast Mined 0
ROSAFRED 6/9 1944, off Netherlands coast Torpedoed under air attack 0
RUDOLF 3/12 1939, off England's east coast Torpedoed by German submarine U-56 9
RUTH 7/5 1942, off Netherlands coast Bombed under air attack 0
RYDBOHOLM 25/2 1941, North Atlantic Torpedoed by German submarine U-47 0
SANTOS 24/2 1940, off Kirkwall Torpedoed by German submarine U-63 25
SCANDINAVIA 9/7 1943, off the coast of Dutch Guiana Torpedoed 0
SCANIA 11/9 1941, North Atlantic Torpedoed 0
SCANIA 13/12 1942, Off Brazil coast Sunk by German submarine 0
SCOTIA 12/4 1942, England's east coast Mined 1
SENTA 12/6 1942 - German North Sea coast Bombed and sunk under Allied air attack 0
SHANTUNG 25/12 1941, North Atlantic ? 5
SICILIA 27/5 1943, off East Africa Torpedoed 0
SIF                        8/7 1944, Heligoland Torpedoed under air attack 0
SIGRID                1/11 1941, Bay of Kiel, Germany Mined 11
SIGYN 1/8 1940, North Atlantic Torpedoed or mined 0
SIGYN 9/8 1942, off Netherlands coast Mined 0
SILESIA 25/9 1939, off Norwegian coast Torpedoed 0
SILJAN 26/9 1940, North Atlantic Torpedoed 9
SIR ERNEST CASSEL 16/4 1941, off Azores Shelled by German raider 0
SIRIUS 19/2 1947, Adriatic Sea Mined 1
SIRVALL 7/5 1943, Rügen Mined 0
SKÅNE 6/3 1942, North Atlantic Torpedoed 0
SOLBRIS 6/6 1944, off Bremerhaven, Germany Mined 0
SOLSTAD 6/1 1944, English Channel Torpedoed 5
SONJA 10/6 1940, off Norwegian coast Mined 12
STELLA 11/3 1941, Port of Manchester Hit by bombs under air attack 0
STEN STURE 26/1 1947, Baltic Sea Not heard of after this date 18
STIG GORTHON 5/7 1941 - German North Sea coast Mined and sunk 0
STORFORS 28/2 1940, England's east coast Sunk after collision in a convoy 0
STRÅSSA 11/5 1940, Narvik Sunk by German Forces 0
STUREBORG                 9/6 1942, Eastern Mediterranean Bombed by Italian Air Forces 20
STUREHOLM 11/12 1940, North Atlantic Not heard of after this date 32
SUECIA                16/8 1942, North Atlantic Torpedoed by German submarine U-596 9
SVARTÖN 3/1 1940, England's east coast Torpedoed by German submarine U-58 20
SVEABORG 9/4 1940, Faroe Island Torpedoed by German submarine U-37 1
SVEAJARL 9/1 1943, off Norwegian coast Mined 37 + 7
SYLVIA 12-13/1 1940, North Sea Sunk by German submarine U-20 20
TABERG 6/6 1941, west off Gibraltar Torpedoed 15
THULE 1/10 1942, off Netherland coast Torpedoed 10
TILIA GORTHON 20/6 1940, English Channel Torpedoed 0
TISNAREN 18/5 1942, Caribic Sea Torpedoed by a Italian submarine 0
TITTI 28/8 1944, Kattegatt Mined 3
TOLKEN 12/5 1942, off U.S.A. east coast Torpedoed 0
TORNE 12/4 1940, Narvik Sunk by German Forces 0
TORSTEN 28/5 1940, Kattegatt Mined 0
TORÖ 12/12 1939, off Falsterbo, Sweden Mined 0
TROLLEHOLM 25/3 1941, South Atlantic Sunk by German raider 0
TYNNINGÖ 7/9 1942, German North Sea coast Mined 0
TÄRNAN 19/4 1944, Mecklenburger Bay Mined 2
UDDEHOLM 6/7 1942, Skagerack Mined 0
UNO 22/11 1941, off Memel Mined 1
URSUS 15/12 1939, mouth of River Thames Mined 9
VAALAREN 5/4 1943, North Atlantic Not heard of after this date 38
VALENCIA    25/10 1942, Sjaelland north coast Mined 0
VALPARAISO 30/12 1940, North Atlantic Not heard of after this date 33
WANJA 14/10 1939, off Kirkwall Stranded 0
VARIA 10/8 1940, English Channel Bombed during German Air Attack 7
VEGA 20/12 1939, off Netherlands coast Mined 0
VENERSBORG 29/12 1944, Baltic Sea Torpedoed 19
VENEZIA 21/6 1943, South Atlantic Torpedoed 0
VENEZUELA 17/4 1941, North Atlantic Torpedoed 49
VERONICA 17/11 1940, off Irish west coast Torpedoed by U-137 17
VIDAR 19/7 1943, off Netherlands coast Mined 0
VINGA 6/12 1939, North Sea Torpedoed by German submarine U-31 0
VINGALAND (I)       8/11 1940, North Atlantic Bombed by German Airplane 6
VIOLA           24/1 1940, Aland Archipelag Sunk by Russian aircrafts ?
VIRGO 13/1 1943, Borkum Mined 2
VISTULA 8/10 1939, North Sea Shelled by German Submarine U-37 9
VOLLRATH THAM 10/11 1941, Borkum Mined 0
VÄRMDÖ 30/5 1942, off Netherlands coast Bombed by British airplane 7
YNGAREN 12/1 1942, North Atlantic Torpedoed by German U-43 38