List of shipwrecks in 1944

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The list of shipwrecks in 1944 includes all ships sunk, floundered, grounded, or otherwise lost during 1944.

	Operator	Ship	Class	Cause	Location	Notes
January 7	Kriegsmarine	Krischan	Krischan class light seaplane tender	Sunk by British aircraft	Kiel
January 7	Kriegsmarine	Bernhard von Tschirschky	Krischan class light seaplane tender	Sunk by British aircraft	Kiel
January 31	Kriegsmarine	Unterseeboot 592	Submarine	Sunk by Royal Navy sloops Magpie, Starling, and Wild Goose	Atlantic Ocean southwest of Ireland
February 8	Kriegsmarine	Unterseeboot 762	Submarine	Sunk by Royal Navy sloops Woodpecker, and Wild Goose	Atlantic Ocean southwest of Ireland
February 9	Kriegsmarine	Unterseeboot 238	Submarine	Sunk by Royal Navy sloops Magpie, Starling, and Kite	Atlantic Ocean southwest of Ireland
February 9	Kriegsmarine	Unterseeboot 734	Submarine	Sunk by Royal Navy sloops Starling, and Wild Goose	Atlantic Ocean southwest of Ireland
February 11	Kriegsmarine	Unterseeboot 424	Submarine	Sunk by Royal Navy sloops Woodpecker, and Wild Goose	Atlantic Ocean southwest of Ireland
February 17	Kriegsmarine	Unterseeboot 425	Submarine	Sunk by Royal Navy corvette Alnwick Castle and sloop Lark	Barents Sea
February 18	Kriegsmarine	Unterseeboot 7	Submarine	Diving accident	Baltic Sea near Pillau
February 19	Kriegsmarine	Unterseeboot 264	Submarine	Sunk by Royal Navy sloops Woodpecker, and Starling	Atlantic Ocean
February 20	Kriegsmarine	Unterseeboot 1276	Submarine	Sunk by Royal Navy sloop Amethyst	Atlantic Ocean south of Waterford
February 27	Kriegsmarine	Unterseeboot 327	Submarine	Sunk by Royal Navy frigates Labuan and Loch Fada, and sloop Wild Goose	English Channel south of Waterford
February 27	Royal Navy	Woodpecker	Sloop	Sunk by Kriegsmarine submarine U 256
March 15	Kriegsmarine	Unterseeboot 653	Submarine	Sunk by a Fairey Swordfish of the Royal Navy escort carrier Vindex and sloops Starling and Wild Goose	Atlantic Ocean
March 15	Kriegsmarine	Unterseeboot 961	Submarine	Sunk by Royal Navy sloop Starling	Atlantic Ocean south of Iceland
April 8	Kriegsmarine	Unterseeboot 2	Submarine	Collision with Helmi Söhle	Baltic Sea near Pillau
April 8	Kriegsmarine	Unterseeboot 962	Submarine	Sunk by Royal Navy sloops Cygnet and Crane	Atlantic Ocean
April 13	Imperial Japanese Navy	Ikazuchi	Destroyer	Sunk by US Navy submarine Harder	Central Pacific
May 6	Kriegsmarine	Unterseeboot 473	Submarine	Sunk by Royal Navy sloops Starling, Wren and Wild Goose	Atlantic Ocean south-west of Ireland
May 29	United States Navy	Block Island	Bogue class escort carrier	Sunk by Kriegsmarine submarine U 549	Atlantic Ocean near the Canary Islands
June	Royal Navy	Centurion		Sunk as a breakwater as part of Operation Neptune	English Channel off Normandy
July 31	Kriegsmarine	Unterseeboot 333	Submarine	Sunk by the Royal Navy sloop Starling and frigate Loch Killin	Atlantic Ocean west of the Scilly Isles
August 10	Kriegsmarine	Unterseeboot 608	Submarine	Sunk by a B-24 Liberator and the Royal Navy sloop Wren	Bay of Biscay
August 11	Kriegsmarine	Unterseeboot 385	Submarine	Sunk by a Shorts Sunderland and the Royal Navy sloop Starling	Bay of Biscay
August 12	Kriegsmarine	Unterseeboot 198	Submarine	Sunk by the Royal Navy frigate Findhorn and Royal Indian Navy sloop HMIS Godavari	Indian Ocean near the Seychelles
August 20	Kriegsmarine	Unterseeboot 9	Submarine	Sunk by Soviet aircraft	Black Sea at Konstanza
August 21	Royal Navy	Kite	Sloop	Sunk by Kriegsmarine submarine Unterseeboot 344
August 24	Kriegsmarine	Unterseeboot 354	Submarine	Sunk by the Royal Navy destroyer Keppel, frigate Loch Dunvegan, and sloops Mermaid and Peacock	Barents Sea
August 25	Kriegsmarine	Unterseeboot 18	Submarine	Scuttled	Konstanza, Romania
August 25	Kriegsmarine	Unterseeboot 24		Scuttled	Konstanza, Romania
August	France	Marechal Petain		Torpedoed by German forces	Port du Bouc, near Marseille, France
April 8	Luftwaffe	Richtofen	Hans Albrecht Wedel class seaplane tender		Konigsberg	Sunk during fitting out
August 6	Luftwaffe	Schnelles Geleitboot 3	San Souci class escort vessel	Sunk by Allied aircraft
September 2	Kriegsmarine	Unterseeboot 394	Submarine	Sunk by a Fairey Swordfish from the Royal Navy escort carrier Vindex, destroyers Keppel and Whitehall and sloops Mermaid and Peacock	Norwegian Sea
September 7	Kriegsmarine	Westfalen		Mined
September 10	Kriegsmarine	Unterseeboot 19	Submarine	Scuttled	Black Sea near Turkey
September 20	Kriegsmarine	Unterseeboot 20	Submarine	Scuttled	Black Sea near Turkey
September 20	Kriegsmarine	Unterseeboot 23	Submarine	Scuttled	Black Sea near Turkey
September	Luftwaffe	Karl Meyer	Karl Meyer class seaplane tender	Sunk by British aircraft
October 24	United States Navy	Princeton	Independence class light aircraft carrier	Sunk by Japanese aircraft		Battle of Leyte Gulf
October 25	United States Navy	Gambier Bay	Casablanca class escort carrier	Sunk by Imperial Japanese Navy cruiser gunfire	Pacific Ocean near Samar	Battle of Leyte Gulf
October 25	United States Navy	St. Lo	Casablanca class escort carrier	Sunk by Japanese Kamikaze	Pacific Ocean near Leyte	Battle of Leyte Gulf
October	Kriegsmarine	Hans Rolshoven	Krischan class light seaplane tender	Mined
November 12	Kriegsmarine	Tirpitz	Bismark class battleship	Sunk by Avro Lancaster bombers	Near Tromsø
December	United States /  New Zealand /  Panama	Alan A. Dale		Sunk by a German Biber midget submarine	Antwerp harbor

[edit] See also

• List of World War II ships

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