GERMAN TRAGEDY OF DESTINY
Germany’s losses in the Second World War
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Other ships

Transport ship Cap Guir — sunk by air attack off Libau on 16 April 1945: 774 dead

Transport ship Eifel — sunk by air attack off Libau on 17 February 1945: 677 dead

Transport ship Moero — sunk by Soviet aircraft during the evacuation of Reval on 22 September 1944: 655 dead

Submarine support vessel Memel — sunk on 30 January 1945 while carrying refugees after striking a British aerial mine: 600 dead

Transport ship Göttingen — torpedoed by a Soviet submarine off Libau on 23 February 1945: 599 dead

Steamer Andross — sunk by air attack in Swinemünde harbour while embarking refugees on 12 March 1945: 570 dead

Transport ship Moltkefels — sunk by Soviet aircraft off the Hela Peninsula on 11 April 1945: 500 dead

Transport ship Bremerhaven — sunk by Soviet aircraft while sailing towards Gotenhafen on 31 October 1944: 410 dead

Hospital ship Robert Möhring — sunk by a bomb hit off Sassnitz on 26 March 1945: 353 dead

Hospital ship Posen — sunk by Soviet aircraft off the Hela Peninsula on 11 April 1945: 300 dead

Transport ship Füselier — sunk by Soviet artillery off Memel on 20 November 1944; survivors in the water were also fired upon: 297 dead

5,735 dead