Ships sunk, foundered, grounded, or otherwise lost during 1940.
The list of shipwrecks in 1940 includes ships sunk, foundered, grounded, or otherwise lost during 1940 .
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Ship
Country
Description
Alice L. Pendleton
United States
The 228-foot (69 m), 1,349-gross register ton four-masted lumber schooner was abandoned at the on the west side of the Mystic River in Noank , Connecticut , sometime during the 1940s, gradually rotted away, and settled on the river bottom in 10 feet (3.0 m) of water.[1]
Australia
The paddle steamer (??? GRT, 1916) sank off Kangaroo Island , South Australia .[2]
United Kingdom
World War II: The tug (782 GRT, 1885) was scuttled.[3]
Fern
United States
With no one on board, the 10-gross register ton , 34.2-foot (10.4 m) motor cargo vessel was wrecked in the middle of George Inlet on the southern coast of Revillagigedo Island in the Alexander Archipelago in Southeast Alaska .[4]
Norway
World War II: The cargo ship (1,758 GRT, 1922) was either bombed and sunk at Narvik , Norway, by Luftwaffe aircraft on 17 May; or was shelled and sunk by Royal Navy ships on 13 April. Raised in 1945, repaired and returned to service.[5]
Australia
The paddle steamer (127 GRT, 1866) sank off Port Adelaide , South Australia .[6]
Australia
The coaster (386 GRT, 1883) ran aground at Port Stephens , New South Wales and was wrecked.[7]
Australia
The paddle steamer (70 GRT, 1878) sank off Adelaide , South Australia .[8]
Australia
The sailing ship sank in Australian waters.[9]
United Kingdom
World War II: The cargo ship (5,393 GRT, 1918) was scuttled as a blockship off Peterhead , Aberdeenshire .[10]
HMAS Psyche
Australia
The lighter (2,135 t, 1898) sank in Salamander Bay, New South Wales off Port Stephens .[11]
Germany
World War II: The cargo ship was bombed and sunk in the Oosterschelde .[12]
United Kingdom
World War II: The cargo ship (2,318 GRT) was bombed and sunk.[13]
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Shipwrecks 1939–45, by month
1939 1940 1941 1942 1943 1944 1945