List of shipwrecks in 1945

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The list of shipwrecks in 1945 includes all ships sunk, foundered, grounded, or otherwise lost during 1945.

	Operator	Ship	Class	Cause	Location	Notes
January 5	United States Navy	Ommaney Bay	Casablanca class escort carrier	World War II: Crippled by a Japanese Kamikaze and scuttled	Pacific Ocean near the Philippine Islands
February 17	Royal Navy	Lark		World War II: Damaged beyond repair by U 968
February 21	United States Navy	Bismarck Sea	Casablanca class aircraft transport	World War II: Sunk by two Japanese Kamikaze aircraft	Pacific Ocean near Iwo Jima
February 23	United States	Henry Bacon		World War II: Sunk by Luftwaffe Ju.88 and He.111 torpedo bombers	Barents Sea
March 20	Royal Navy	Lapwing		World War II: Sunk by U 968
March 23	Kriegsmarine	Gneisenau	Gneisenau class battlecruiser	World War II: Sunk as a blockship	Gdynia harbor	Later refloated and scrapped
April 8	Luftwaffe	Boelcke	Karl Meyer class seaplane tender	World War II: Sunk by Soviet aircraft
April 8	Luftwaffe	Hans Albrecht Wedel	Hana Albrecht Wedel class seaplane tender	World War II: Sunk by Soviet aircraft
April 9	Kriegsmarine	Admiral Scheer	Deutschland class pocket battleship	World War II: Sunk by Royal Air Force bombers	Kiel harbor
April 10	Kriegsmarine	Seydlitz	Admiral Hipper class heavy cruiser	World War II: Scuttled	Kiel harbor
April 25	Kriegsmarine	Graf Zeppelin	Graf Zeppelin class aircraft carrier	World War II: Scuttled while incomplete	Stettin, West Pomerania	Raised and captured (or salvaged) by the Soviet Union in 1947
April 28	Kriegsmarine	Unterseeboot 56		World War II: Sunk by Royal Air Force aircraft	Kiel
May 2	Kriegsmarine	Admiral Hipper	Admiral Hipper class heavy cruiser	End of World War II: Scuttled	Kiel harbor
May 2	Kriegsmarine	Unterseeboot 8		End of World War II: Scuttled	Wilhelmshaven
May 2	Kriegsmarine	Unterseeboot 14	German Type IIB submarine	End of World War II: Scuttled	Wilhelmshaven
May 2	Kriegsmarine	Unterseeboot 60		End of World War II: Scuttled	Wilhelmshaven
May 2	Kriegsmarine	Unterseeboot 61		End of World War II: Scuttled	Wilhelmshaven
May 2	Kriegsmarine	Unterseeboot 62		End of World War II: Scuttled	Wilhelmshaven
May 2	Kriegsmarine	Unterseeboot 120		End of World War II: Scuttled	Bremerhaven
May 2	Kriegsmarine	Unterseeboot 121		End of World War II: Scuttled	Bremerhaven
May 2	Kriegsmarine	Unterseeboot 137	German Type IID submarine	End of World War II: Scuttled	Wilhelmshaven
May 2	Kriegsmarine	Unterseeboot 139		End of World War II: Scuttled	Wilhelmshaven
May 2	Kriegsmarine	Unterseeboot 140	German Type IID submarine	End of World War II: Scuttled	Wilhelmshaven
May 2	Kriegsmarine	Unterseeboot 141		End of World War II: Scuttled	Wilhelmshaven
May 2	Kriegsmarine	Unterseeboot 142		End of World War II: Scuttled	Wilhelmshaven
May 2	Kriegsmarine	Unterseeboot 146		End of World War II: Scuttled	Wilhelmshaven
May 2	Kriegsmarine	Unterseeboot 148		End of World War II: Scuttled	Wilhelmshaven
May 2	Kriegsmarine	Unterseeboot 152		End of World War II: Scuttled	Wilhelmshaven
May 2	Kriegsmarine	Unterseeboot 153		End of World War II: Scuttled	Wilhelmshaven
May 3	Kriegsmarine	Cap Arcona		World War II: Sunk by Royal Air Force fighters-bombers	Bay of Lübeck
May 3	Kriegsmarine	Unterseeboot 57		End of World War II: Scuttled	Kiel
May 3	Kriegsmarine	Unterseeboot 58		End of World War II: Scuttled	Kiel
May 4	Kriegsmarine	Lützow	Deutschland class pocket battleship	End of World War II: Scuttled	Baltic Sea	Later raised by the Soviet Union
May 5	Kriegsmarine	Unterseeboot 17	German Type IIB submarine	End of World War II: Scuttled	Wilhelmshaven
July 16	United States Navy	Gamble	Wickes class destroyer	End of World War II: Sunk for disposal	Pacific Ocean outside Apra Harbor, Guam
July 25	Imperial Japanese Navy	Eian Maru		World War II: Sunk by United States aircraft	Pacific Ocean
October 9	United States Navy	Dorsey	Wickes class destroyer	Grounded by a typhoon	Pacific Ocean on Okinawa	Later destroyed on 1 January 1946
December 22	Kriegsmarine	Unterseeboot 143		Aftermath of World War II: Sunk as part of Operation Deadlight
December 22	Kriegsmarine	Unterseeboot 145		Aftermath of World War II: Sunk as part of Operation Deadlight
	Kriegsmarine	Unterseeboot 149		Aftermath of World War II: Sunk as part of Operation Deadlight

[edit] See also

• List of World War II ships
• List of shipwrecks

Ship launches:	1940	1941	1942	1943	1944	1945	1946	1947	1948	1949
Ship commissionings:	1940	1941	1942	1943	1944	1945	1946	1947	1948	1949
Ship decommissionings:	1940	1941	1942	1943	1944	1945	1946	1947	1948	1949
Shipwrecks:	1940	1941	1942	1943	1944	1945	1946	1947	1948	1949

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