Operation Locker is a collaborative project to produce comprehensive coverage of all ships lost during the years 1914-1918 and 1939-45.
WWI articles
edit- Task List
- Create individual lists for each month between August 1914 and December 1918.
Not done 1914.
Done All 1915-1918 lists.
- Expand lists from various sources
- Uboat.net
- Done up to U-167, UA, up to UB-155, up to UC-105 (all Kaiserliche Marine boats).
- Done Austro-Hungarian boats up to U-47 (all Austro-Hungarian boats).
- The Times
- Done - Jan 1914 to Dec 1918.
- California Digital Newspaper Collection
- Papers Past
- National Library of Australia
- National Library of Singapore
- Naval History
- Done - Much info gleaned from this site.
- Isle of Man in the Great War
- Done - Chapter 5 would seem to be the relevant area here.
- Mariners
WWII articles
edit- Task list
- Create separate lists of shipwrecks for each month from January 1939 to December 1945
- Done - 1939, 1940, 1941, 1942, 1943, 1944, 1945
- Expand lists from various sources
- The Times newspaper (UK)
- Done 1939-45
- Papers Past (New Zealand newspapers)
- Not done
- DANFS Online
- Done 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
- Done
- 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
- Done All ships A-Z and Ø done.
- Homefleet ships
- Done A-Z
- Done victims of raiders.
- Mariners list
- DoneEmpire ships - done via Mitchell & Smith's book The Empire Ships.
- DoneWWI standard built ships
- DoneT2 tankers - no WWII losses
- DoneFort ships
- DoneOcean ships
- DonePark ships
- DoneVictory ships
- DoneLiberty ships
- Not doneMulberry harbours
- Uboat.net
- Done.
- Combined force
- All ships need to be done.
- Wrecksite - Treat with caution and try to cross-verify info
- Done All 1939 ships, All 1940 ships A-Z, All 1941 ships A-Z, All 1942 ships A-Z.
- Not done All 1943 ships A-Z, All 1944 ships A-Z, All 1945 ships A-Z
- Chronik des Seekrieges 1939-1945 (in German)
- Comando Supremo - Italy in WWII.
- The Ships List
- Not done - All companies need to be done.
Category checking
editAll entries in these categories to be cross-checked with the relevant list and missing entries added to the list as necessary.
Done
Not done
- 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 Irish Sea
- Category:World War II shipwrecks in the Mediterranean
- Category:World War II shipwrecks in the North Sea
- 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
- Maritime incidents
Not all entries in these categories will be shipwrecks.
Done
- Category:Maritime incidents in 1939 - except List of foreign ships wrecked or lost in the Spanish Civil War - entries need verification and adding.
- Category:Maritime incidents in 1940
- Category:Maritime incidents in 1941
Not done
Notes
editAs this is a list of shipwrecks, generally vessels under 100 tons should not listed. Exceptions are commissioned naval vessels, and vessels sunk by enemy action. The latter should not be wikilinked unless there is an article on the vessel in question. Many ships will need to be dabbed. Plimsoll ship data and Miramar Ship Index (subscription required) will prove useful in achieving this. Both sites will also say whether or not a merchant vessel was a steamship or motor vessel as appropriate.