Soviet Black Sea Merchant ship losses

[James A Pratt III]

Here is a list of Soviet Merchant ships sunk in the Black Sea by aircraft during WW II does any one know what units sank them? some I have:

1941:
23.7 Adzharin possibly ARR Gp 5 Bomb
12.8 Novorossiysk
13.8 Polina Osipneko possibly I/KG 51
27.8 Bryansk
Kaments-Podolsk 6/KG 26
14.9 Moldavia KG 51?
22.9 Tayfun II/StG 77?
30.9 Pugachev
15.10 6/KG 26 and Stg 77
17.10 Leningrad
27.10 Delegat
27 Volo0darsky (tug)
29.10 Urales
4.11 Rot-Front
5.11 rabotnik
7.11 Armenia 1/KG 28 ( note 5000 KIA worst Soviet sea disaster ever)
19.11 Maykop
26 12 Fanagaria (tug)
26.12 Voroshilov
27.10 Penay
31.12 Krasnogiraneets

also 1 .7 Destroyer Bistry sunk mine laid by II/KG 4

more to come

[James A Pratt III]

1942
1-1 Tashkent
4.1 Zyryanin
5.1 Nogin
9.1 Chatyradac
9.1 Spartakovets
14.1 Batakh
2.3 Fabricius II/KG 26
21.3 Georgy Dimitroi 8/KG 51
23.3 Nikolay Ostrovskis III/KG 51 and Tug Veskilov and GS17 sunk Submarines D5 and S32 damaged with II/KG 26
23.3 Vasily Chapaev II/KG 26 and Voroshilov damaged
24.3 Yalta and depot ship Neva KG 51
2.4 Valerian Kutbyshev II/KG 26 ( 3.3 damaged and 17.3 damaged III/KG 51
17.4 Suaweton II/KG 26
21.4 Kalimin
4.5 Potemkin
10.5 Chernomorlets
12.5 Krvenny Moryak
12.5 Krany Flot
12.5 Berezna mine or aircraft?
2.6 II/KG 26
10.6 Abkhazin KG 76? or III/LG 1 or I/KG 100?
13.6 Gruzin
2.7 Kuban I/KG 76 and I/KG 100
2.7Ukrania " "
2.7 Elbrous " "
2.7 Lepokolnoh unknown
2.7 Proletariy
12.8 Anapa
15.8 Chervona Ukrania
15.8 Record
15.8 Shturmane
22.10 Azov
end 1942 Sovietskiy Krym ground and aircraft KG 76 ? 4 Nov 43

1943
23.2 Alexander Ulyanov
30.7 Emba damaged and grounded aircraft jan 42 sunk U20
?.10 Berezina salvaged 1944

[Andrei Demjanko]

Originally Posted by James A Pratt III

23.7 Adzharin possibly ARR Gp 5 Bomb

4727-ton passenger/cargo ship Adjaria [Adjara] - II./KG 51

Originally Posted by James A Pratt III

13.8 Polina Osipneko possibly I/KG 51

3925-ton bulker Polina Osipenko - II./JG 77

[edwest2]

This is outside my area of experience but I have found an essay and a list of Luftwaffe units deployed in the area at the bottom, along with references used by the author. Clicking on the list image will allow you to enlarge it.


http://www.gabriel-elefteriu.com/201...sea-1941-1944/




Hope this helps,
Ed

[Larry deZeng]

For the period June through mid-October 1941, these two books are full of attacks on Soviet Black Sea shipping and the results. The author is a regular here and most of his data comes from Soviet and Romanian command war diaries. They cover many of the smaller ships not found in your list:

Bernád, Dénes, Dmitriy Karlenko and Jean-Louis Roba. From Barbarossa to Odessa – The Luftwaffe and Axis Allies Strike South-East: June-October 1941. Volume 1. Hinckley (U.K.): Ian Allan/Midland Publishing, 2008. ISBN: (10) 1 85780 273 X.
Bernád, Dénes, Dmitriy Karlenko and Jean-Louis Roba. From Barbarossa to Odessa – The Luftwaffe and Axis Allies Strike South-East: June-October 1941. Volume 2. Hinckley (U.K.): Ian Allan/Midland Publishing, 2008. ISBN: (10) 1 85780 2802 X.

L.

[Andrei Demjanko]

Originally Posted by James A Pratt III

also 1 .7 Destroyer Bistry sunk mine laid by II/KG 4

Apart from a destroyer, tug SP-12 (22 June) 25-ton floating crane (24 June) and steam lighter Dnjepr (30 June) were sunk by mines laid by II./KG 4

[James A Pratt III]

Thanks for the info:
The list of ships is from shipsnostalgia.com I got from a post on the forumaxishistory.com. lists all the Soviet merchant ships lost in the Black sea
The Barbarossa to Odessa books were one of my sources also used BCRS and books by J Weal
good article Ed

[alessandro bray]

Hi,

10.6 Abkhazin KG 76? or III/LG 1 or I/KG 100?

Abkhazia (4727 GRT) credited to Leutnant Herbert Klein I/KG100

regards

[Andrei Demjanko]

Originally Posted by James A Pratt III

1941:

27.8 Bryansk
Kaments-Podolsk 6/KG 26

Bryansk - the date of loss was 21 August. No LW claims for ships sunk. JG 77 claimed near misses on several ships and I./KG 51 reported that transport ship probably was not hit. So most probably JG 77

Kamenets-Podolsk - the date was 29 August and the unit responsible was 3./KG 28