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Total Losses - Allied Commonwealth

Total Losses - Allied United States

Total Losses - Allied USSR, France, China

Total Losses - Axis Germany, Italy, Vichy France

Total Losses - Axis Japan

Total Losses - Minors - Poland, Norway, Denmark

Ships Sunk (whether through combat or accident), scuttled (due to enemy action not age or operational reasons), Interned and captured.

Poland
Start date 1 September 1939. Incl, ships provided by the Commonwealth and other navies during World War II

Cruisers loaned by the RN - 1
Destroyers - 2
Destroyers loaned by the RN - 1
Escort Destroyers loaned by the RN - 1
Submarines - 5
Submarines loand by USN - 1
Minelayers - 1
Minesweepers - 5
Gunboats - 1
Gunnery Trainning Ship - 1

Escaped to the UK prior to (Operation Peking) and during the Battle for Poland:
Submarine - 2
Destroyer - 3

Sources:
Conways All the World's Fighting Ships 1922-1946
The Polish Navy 1918-45 (Budzbon)

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Norway [UNDER CONSTRUCTION]
Start date 9 April 1940. Incl, ships provided by the Commonwealth and other navies during World War II

Coastal Defence Ships - 4 (incl, 2 decommisioned vessels given a counter in MWIF).
Destroyers - 2
Destroyers loaned by RN - 1
Escort Destroyers loaned by RN - 1
Destroyers loaned by USN/RN - 1
Corvettes loaned by RN - 3
Torpedo Boats - 20
Submarines - 8
Submarines loaned by RN - 1
Minesweepers - 8
Minelayers - 11

Escaped to the UK during Battle for Norway:
Submarine - 1
Destroyer - 1
Torpedo Boat -1

Sources:
Conways All the World's Fighting Ships 1922-1946
The German Invasion of Norway (Haarr)
The Battle For Norway (Haarr)

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Denmark [UNDER CONSTRUCTION]
Start date 9 April 1940. Incl, ships provided by the Commonwealth and other navies during World War II [Need to check this]

Total Losses - Minors - The Netherlands, Belgium xxxx,xxxx,xxxx

Ships Sunk (whether through combat or accident), scuttled (due to enemy action not age or operational reasons), Interned and captured.

The Netherlands [UNDER CONSTRUCTION]
Start date 10 May 1940. Incl, ships provided by the Commonwealth and other navies during World War II [Check this]

Cruisers - 1 [Java]
Destroyers -
Torpedo Boats - 4 [Christiaan Cornelis, G2, G16, Z3]
Submarines - 3 [O-8, KV II, K X]
Minesweepers -
Minelayers -
Armoured Gunboats: 2 [Friso, Brinio]

Escaped to the UK following the Battle for The Netherlands in May 1940*:

Cruisers - 2 [Sumatra, Jacob van Heemskeerk]
Submarines -
Destroyers -
Torpedo Boats - 6 [G13, G15, Z5, Z6, Z7, Z8]
Armoured Gunboats - 1 [Gruno]

* In addition to the ships that sailed for the UK in May 1940, there were the ships based in the Netherlands East Indies. In fact the bulk of the Dutch navy was based in this vital colony.


Escaped to Commonwealth countries following the Battle for the Netherlands East Indies in February 1942

Submarines - 2 [KV III, K IX]

Sources:
Conways All the World's Fighting Ships 1922-1946
Chronology of the War at Sea 1939-1945 (Rohwer)
The Royal Netherlands Navy of World War II (Noppen)

Total Losses - Minors - Romania xxxx, xxxx

Ships Sunk (whether through combat or accident), scuttled (due to enemy action not age or operational reasons), Interned and captured.

Romania

Start date 22 June 1941. The small Romanian navy provided valuable service to the Axis cause - yet strangely it suffered just three combat losses post June 1941 in the war against the Soviets. The losses recorded for the Romanians here are, with those three exceptions, the ships taken over by the Soviets in August 1944 (with the added exception of the river flotillas which are outside the scope of this work). Romania joined the Allies at that point but it is appropriate to record as losses to the Romanians.

Destroyers - 4
Submarines - 3
Midget Submarines - 5
Minelayers - 1
Torpedo Boats - 3
Gunboats - 3
MTB - 7

Sources:
Conways All the World's Fighting Ships 1922-1946
Third Axis Fourth Ally (Axworthy)
Chronology of the War at Sea 1939-45 (Rohwer)
Warships of the Soviets Fleets (Budzbon, Radziemski, Twardowski)