List of shipwrecks in 1940

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The list of shipwrecks in 1940 includes all ships sunk, floundered, grounded, or otherwise lost during 1940.

	Operator	Ship	Class	Cause	Location	Notes
February 25	Kriegsmarine	Unterseeboot 63	Submarine	Sunk by Royal Navy destroyers HMS Escort, Inglefield, and Imogen, and sloop Narwhal	North Sea near the Shetland Islands
March 27	Kriegsmarine	Unterseeboot 22	Submarine	Went missing	Skagerrak
April 6	Kriegsmarine	Unterseeboot 1	Submarine	Sunk by a mine	North Sea
April 9	Kriegsmarine	Blücher	Admiral Hipper class heavy cruiser	Sunk by Norwegian shore defenses during Operation Weserübung	Oslo Fjord
April 9	Royal Norwegian Navy	HNoMS Eidsvold	Eidsvold class coastal battleship	Torpedoed by the German destroyer Wilhelm Heidkamp during battle of Narvik	Narvik
April 9	Royal Norwegian Navy	HNoMS Norge	Eidsvold class coastal battleship	Torpedoed by the German destroyer Bernd von Arnim during battle of Narvik	Narvik
April 10	Kriegsmarine	Wilhelm Heidkamp	Typ 1936 class destroyer	Torpedoed of the British destroyer HMS Hardy during first battle of Narvik	Narvik
April 10	Kriegsmarine	Anton Schmitt	Typ 1936 class destroyer	Torpedoed by the British destroyer HMS Hunter during first battle of Narvik	Narvik
April 10	Royal Navy	HMS Hardy	H class destroyer	Sunk by the German destroyers during first battle of Narvik	Ofotfjord near Narvik
April 10	Royal Navy	HMS Hunter	H class destroyer	Sunk by German destroyers during first battle of Narvik	Ofotfjord near Narvik
May 4	Polish Navy	ORP Grom	Grom class destroyer	Sunk by the German aircraft	Ofotfjord near Narvik
May 16	Kriegsmarine	Unterseeboot 15	Submarine	Collision with torpedo boat Iltis	Hoofden
May 31	Kriegsmarine	Unterseeboot 13	Submarine	Sunk by Royal Navy sloop HMS Weston
June 8	Royal Navy	Glorious		Sunk by German battlecruisers Gneisenau and Scharnhorst	North Sea near Norway
July 1	Kriegsmarine	Unterseeboot 26	Submarine	Sunk by Royal Navy corvette HMS Gladiolus and a Royal Australian Air Force Short Sunderland	Atlantic Ocean near Ireland
August 1	Kriegsmarine	Unterseeboot 25	Submarine	Sunk	North Sea near Terchelling
September 14	Kriegsmarine	Ostmark	Light seaplane tender	Sunk by Royal Navy submarine HMS Tuna

[edit] See also

• List of shipwrecks
• List of World War II ships

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Ship commissionings:	2000	2001	2002	2003	2004	2005	2006	2007	2008	2009
Ship decommissionings:	2000	2001	2002	2003	2004	2005	2006	2007	2008	2009
Shipwrecks:	2000	2001	2002	2003	2004	2005	2006	2007	2008	2009