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Royal Navy vessels lost during World War One by either

​enemy action or accident. 
 
Orkney Herald, and Weekly Advertiser and Gazette for the Orkney & Zetland Islands - Wednesday 15 October 1919

LOSSES OF THE NAVY. 

ADMIRALTY RETURN. 


Over a thousand vessels of the Royal Navy, warships and auxiliaries, were lost during the war in action, by submarines and mines and other causes. The exact number, according to a detailed return issued on Saturday by the Secretary to the Admiralty, was 1,069, of which 254 were warships and 815 auxiliary vessels. Of the warships, 13 were battleships, 3 battle cruisers, 13 cruisers, 12 light cruisers (including six sunk as block ships at Zeebrugge and Ostend), 5 monitors, 3 flotilla leaders, 64 torpedo-boat destroyers (including the Zulu and Nubian, which were damaged in action and afterwards made into one ship, named Nubian, and which are counted as loss of one vessel), and 54 submarines (including seven destroyed at to escape capture). Only 42 warships were lost in action, 62 falling victims submarine attacks, and 44 to mines. 11 were destroyed avoid capture, 28 were lost in collisions, 22 were wrecked, five were lost internal explosions, and seven by accident, while in 26 cases the cause of the loss was unknown.

Among the 815 auxiliary vessels in the list, 246 were hired trawlers, 244 were colliers, and 130 were hired drifters. There were 18 minesweepers, 2 mine carriers, two hospital ships (the Rohilla, which was wrecked off Whitby in October 1914, and the Rewa, which was sunk a submarine at the beginning of last year), 44 oilers, 20 special service ships, 14 tugs, 13 yachts, two whalers, 18 Admiralty trawlers, 24 motor launches, 6 motor boats, 1 ammunition ship, and nine fleet messengers.
A large proportion these boats were lost as the result of attacks by U boats, the number being 289; while 225 were destroyed by mines, and 43 went down as the result of actions. To collisions the loss 93 auxiliaries as ascribed and 77 were wrecked, one was destroyed to avoid capture, and 18 were removed by fire, while in 31 cases the cause the loss is unknown.
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      • Houton ''whaler'' tragedy
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      • SM U 102
      • SM UC 55
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      • U.S.S. Curlew
      • USS WILLIAM ROCKEFELLER
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