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Originally Posted by Brian Bines
Carl, I take it you are aware of the HMSO publication of 1947 '' British Merchant Vessels Lost or damaged By Enemy Action During WWII''. It lists ships by date, name, ship type, tonnage, position, cause (ie AC) and How Lost ( is T or B Torpedo or Bomb ). Bearing in mind this is British ships only it shows no losses to aircraft in 1945 with the only loss in May being the Avondale Park of 2878 T on 7th May to a U-Boat off the Firth of Forth. I do not know if this publication is available in any US archive, I have not seen it on-line. On 21st.April-1945 KG26 lost a number of aircraft to the Banff Wing in an attempted anti shipping mission off Scotland,
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This was published in 1976 by PSL as a 2 volume work dealing with both World Wars.
In 1988 they consolidated it into 1 volume.
'British Vessels Lost at Sea 1914-18 and 1939-45'
ISBN 1852601345