Wikipedia:WikiProject Shipwrecks/Locker

Operation Locker is a collaborative project to produce comprehensive coverage of all ships lost during the years 1914-1918 and 1939-45.

WWI articles

 * Task List
 * Create individual lists for each month between August 1914 and December 1918.
 * ❌ 1914.
 * ✅ All 1915-1918 lists.
 * Expand lists from various sources
 * Uboat.net
 * ✅ up to U-167, UA, up to UB-155, up to UC-105 (all Kaiserliche Marine boats).
 * ✅ Austro-Hungarian boats up to U-47 (all Austro-Hungarian boats).
 * The Times
 * ✅ - Jan 1914 to Dec 1918.
 * California Digital Newspaper Collection
 * Papers Past
 * National Library of Australia
 * National Library of Singapore
 * Naval History
 * ✅ - Much info gleaned from this site.
 * Isle of Man in the Great War
 * ✅ - Chapter 5 would seem to be the relevant area here.
 * Mariners

WWII articles

 * Task list
 * Create separate lists of shipwrecks for each month from January 1939 to December 1945
 * ✅ - 1939, 1940, 1941, 1942, 1943, 1944, 1945
 * Expand lists from various sources
 * The Times newspaper (UK)
 * ✅ 1939-45
 * Papers Past (New Zealand newspapers)
 * DANFS Online
 * ✅ Airships (checked and found to be outside scope of project), Submarines - All subs from USS Barracuda (SS-163) to USS Halfback (SS-352) done. Earlier vessels appear to be pre-war, later ones post-war., Aircraft carriers,Battleships, Cruisers, Escort carriers, Frigates - apparently all post-WWII vessels, Destroyers, up to USS Shelton (DD-790) done. Later ship appear to all be post-war commissionings. Torpedo boats - Not WWII vessels. Destroyer escorts and frigates, Up to USS Julius A. Raven (DE-600) done. Later vessels appear to be post-WWII, Amphibious ships, Mine warfare vessels, Patrol craft, Auxiliary ships, Miscellaneous unclassified ships, SP and ID series ships, Yard craft, Steamships, USCG vessels
 * Convoyweb - extensive coverage of WWII convoys
 * All convoys need to be done.
 * Warsailors - extensive coverage of convoys and Norwegian merchant ships
 * HX convoys - Except 77, 88, 98, 108-10, 142, 155, 157, 227, 230-32, 257-72 and 340-58; which did not have live pages as of 17 May 2012. These were checked via the Convoyweb website.
 * SC convoys - SC convoys, except 36-41, 43-47, 49-50, 102-20, 123-24 and 168-77; which did not have live pages as of 24 May 2012. These were checked via the Convoyweb website.
 * CU convoys
 * Freefleet ships
 * ✅ All ships A-Z and Ø done.
 * Homefleet ships
 * ✅ A-Z
 * ✅ victims of raiders.
 * Mariners list
 * ✅Empire ships - done via Mitchell & Smith's book The Empire Ships.
 * ✅WWI standard built ships
 * ✅T2 tankers - no WWII losses
 * ✅Fort ships
 * ✅Ocean ships
 * ✅Park ships
 * ✅Victory ships
 * ✅Liberty ships
 * ❌Mulberry harbours
 * ✅Liberty ships
 * ❌Mulberry harbours


 * Uboat.net


 * Combined force
 * All ships need to be done.


 * Wrecksite - Treat with caution and try to cross-verify info
 * ✅ All 1939 ships, All 1940 ships A-Z, All 1941 ships A-Z, All 1942 ships A-Z.
 * ❌ All 1943 ships A-Z, All 1944 ships A-Z, All 1945 ships A-Z


 * Hyperwar


 * Chronik des Seekrieges 1939-1945 (in German)


 * Comando Supremo - Italy in WWII.


 * The Ships List
 * ❌ - All companies need to be done.


 * George Duncan's Maritime Disasters of WWII

Category checking
All entries in these categories to be cross-checked with the relevant list and missing entries added to the list as necessary.

✅ ❌
 * Category:World War II shipwrecks
 * Category:World War II shipwrecks in the Aegean Sea
 * Category:World War II shipwrecks in the Arctic Ocean
 * Category:World War II shipwrecks in the Atlantic Ocean
 * Category:World War II shipwrecks in the Baltic Sea
 * Category:World War II shipwrecks in the Black Sea
 * Category:World War II shipwrecks in the Caribbean Sea
 * Category:World War II shipwrecks in the Celtic Sea
 * Category:World War II shipwrecks in the English Channel
 * Category:World War II shipwrecks in the Indian Ocean
 * Category:World War II shipwrecks in the Strait of Malacca
 * Category:World War II shipwrecks in the Arabian Sea
 * Category:World War II shipwrecks in the Irish Sea
 * Category:World War II shipwrecks in the Mediterranean
 * Category:World War II shipwrecks in the Aegean Sea
 * Category:Ships sunk by aircraft during the air raid on Bari
 * Category:World War II shipwrecks in the North Sea
 * Category:World War II shipwrecks in Scapa Flow
 * Category:World War II shipwrecks in the Norwegian Sea
 * Category:World War II shipwrecks in the Pacific Ocean
 * Category:World War II shipwrecks in the Coral Sea
 * Category:World War II shipwrecks in the East China Sea
 * Category:Shipwrecks in Ironbottom Sound
 * Category:World War II shipwrecks in the Sea of Japan
 * Category:World War II shipwrecks in the Java Sea
 * Category:World War II shipwrecks in the Mindanao Sea
 * Category:World War II shipwrecks in the Molucca Sea
 * Category:World War II shipwrecks in the Philippine Sea
 * Category:Ships sunk in the bombing of Darwin, 1942
 * Category:World War II shipwrecks in the Sibuyan Sea
 * Category:World War II shipwrecks in the South China Sea
 * Category:World War II shipwrecks in the Yellow Sea
 * Category:World War II shipwrecks in the Gulf of Mexico

Not all entries in these categories will be shipwrecks. ✅
 * Maritime incidents
 * Category:Maritime incidents in 1939 - except List of foreign ships wrecked or lost in the Spanish Civil War - entries need verification and adding.
 * Category:U-boats sunk in 1939
 * Category:Maritime incidents in 1940
 * Category:U-boats sunk in 1940
 * Category:U-boats scuttled in 1940
 * Category:Maritime incidents in 1941
 * Category:U-boats sunk in 1941
 * Category:U-boats scuttled in 1941

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 * Category:Maritime incidents in 1942
 * Category:RMS Laconia (1921)
 * Category:U-boats sunk in 1942
 * Category:U-boats scuttled in 1942
 * Category:Maritime incidents in 1943
 * Category:Ships sunk by aircraft during the air raid on Bari
 * Category:U-boats sunk in 1943
 * Category:U-boats scuttled in 1943
 * Category:Maritime incidents in 1944
 * Category:U-boats sunk in 1944
 * Category:U-boats scuttled in 1944
 * Category:Maritime incidents in 1945
 * Category:U-boats sunk in 1945
 * 'Category:U-boats scuttled in 1945