List of shipwrecks in 1939

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The list of shipwrecks in 1939 includes all ships sunk, floundered, grounded, or otherwise lost during 1939.

[edit] September

[edit] September 3

• Athenia ( United Kingdom): Sunk by U-30 250 miles from Northern Ireland.

[edit] September 17

• Courageous ( Royal Navy): aircraft carrier, sunk by U-29 off Northern Ireland.

[edit] October

[edit] October 8

• U-12 ( Kriegsmarine): Sunk near Dover in the English Channel by a mine hit

[edit] October 14

• Royal Oak ( Royal Navy): Revenge class battleship, sunk by U-47 in Scapa Flow

[edit] October 25

• U-16 ( Kriegsmarine): Sunk by Royal Navy trawler HMS Cayton Wyke and patrol vessel Puffin

[edit] November

[edit] November 13

• Blanche ( Royal Navy): B class destroyer, sunk by mine

[edit] December

[edit] December 17

• Admiral Graf Spee ( Kriegsmarine): 12,100 ton Deutschland class pocket battleship, scuttled in near Montevideo, Uruguay after the Battle of the River Plate

[edit] See also

• List of World War II ships

Ship launches:	1930	1931	1932	1933	1934	1935	1936	1937	1938	1939
Ship commissionings:	1930	1931	1932	1933	1934	1935	1936	1937	1938	1939
Ship decommissionings:	1930	1931	1932	1933	1934	1935	1936	1937	1938	1939
Shipwrecks:	1930	1931	1932	1933	1934	1935	1936	1937	1938	1939

Ship launches:	1940	1941	1942	1943	1944	1945	1946	1947	1948	1949
Ship commissionings:	1940	1941	1942	1943	1944	1945	1946	1947	1948	1949
Ship decommissionings:	1940	1941	1942	1943	1944	1945	1946	1947	1948	1949
Shipwrecks:	1940	1941	1942	1943	1944	1945	1946	1947	1948	1949