North Atlantic Mariner

The Battle of the Atlantic The North Atlantic · September 1939 to May 1945 During the Second World War, ships kept weather logs that survive in the ICOADS archive. This video shows them day by day from September 1939 to May 1945, and the convoy lanes appear as tracks: along the American coast, from Halifax to Liverpool, to Gibraltar and Freetown, and round the North Cape to Murmansk. Red dots mark the 4,689 ships sunk where a position is known, Allied and neutral in red, German and Italian in orange. The timeline pauses at eight turning points, from the fall of France and the U-boats off America in 1942 to May 1943, when the U-boats were withdrawn from the North Atlantic. It also follows six famous convoys along their routes: SC 7, HG 76, PQ 17, the Malta convoy of Operation Pedestal, HX 229 and SC 122, and ONS 5. The sinkings come from Wikipedia’s monthly lists of shipwrecks and include warships. Only ships with a known position are shown.

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