List of shipwrecks in 1942

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The list of shipwrecks in 1942 includes all ships sunk, floundered, grounded, or otherwise lost during 1942.

	Operator	Ship	Class	Cause	Location	Notes

February 20	Turkey	Kurtuluş	Merchant	Blown onto rocks	Marmara Sea off Marmara Island
February 27	United States Navy	Langley	Seaplane tender and aircraft transport	Crippled by Japanese bombers and scuttled	Pacific Ocean approaching Java
March 1	United States Navy	Houston		Sunk during Battle of the Java Sea
March 1	Royal Australian Navy	Perth		Sunk during Battle of the Java Sea
May 1	Royal Navy	Exeter		Sunk during Battle of the Java Sea
May 1	United States Navy	Pope		Sunk during Battle of the Java Sea
May 8	United States Navy	Lexington	Lexington class aircraft carrier	Crippled by Japanese bombers and scuttled	Pacific Ocean in the Coral Sea	Battle of the Coral Sea
May 31	Royal Australian Navy	Kuttabul		Sunk by Japanese midget submarine	Sydney Harbour
July 11	Sweden	Luleå		Sunk by Soviet navy submarine S7	Baltic sea near Kungsgrundet
July 31	Kriegsmarine	Unterseeboot 213		Sunk by Royal Navy sloops Erne, Rochester, and Sandwich	Atlantic Ocean east of the Azores
August 9	Royal Australian Navy	Canberra		Sunk during Battle of Savo Island
August 30	United States Navy	Colhoun		Sunk by Japanese aircraft	Pacific Ocean near Guadalcanal
September 5	United States Navy	Gregory		Sunk by Imperial Japanese Navy destroyers Yudachi, Hatsuyuki and Murakumo	Pacific Ocean near Guadalcanal
September 5	United States Navy	Little		Sunk by Imperial Japanese Navy destroyers Yudachi, Hatsuyuki and Murakumo	Pacific Ocean near Guadalcanal
September 12	United Kingdom	Laconia		Sunk by Kriegsmarine submarine U 156	South Atlantic Ocean near Ascension Island
September 15	United States Navy	Wasp	Light aircraft carrier	Crippled by Japanese submarine I-19 and scuttled	Pacific Ocean near Guadalcanal
November 10	Royal Navy	Ibis		Sunk by Italian torpedo bombers	Mediterranean near Algiers
November 15	Royal Navy	Avenger	Avenger class escort carrier	Sunk by Kriegsmarine submarine U 155	Atlantic Ocean near Gibraltar	Part of Operation Torch
November 27	Marine nationale	Commandant Teste	Seaplane carrier and tender	Scuttled	Toulon, France	Later raised and scrapped

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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