NAVAL LOSSES

Grey River Argus, 20 August 1942, Page 5

NAVAL LOSSES

415 BRITISH SHIPS. (Rec. 1.5.) LONDON August 19. Since the outbreak of war, Britain lias lost 415 warships of all types, though a great number of them are small ships. The _ Navy’s efficiency has not been impaired because feverish building day and night has kept its strength at a point where it is the most formidable sea force in the world. Losses include three battleships, two battlecruisers, five aircraft, carriers, twenty-two cruisers, fourteen merchant cruisers, eightythree destroyers, thitv-eight submarines, eleven corvettes, ten sloops, one monitor. 152 trawlers and drifters. three hospital ships, seven transports, twenty mine-sweepers, and two mine-layers.