An Archive Of Steel and Salt

The warships that wrote
a century in iron.

An enthusiast's archive of the ships that fought the war at sea from September 1939 to September 1945.

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2,194

Days of War at Sea

≈ 4,700

Merchant Ships Lost

≈ 105,000

Allied Sailors Lost

≈ 783

U-Boats Sunk

Editor's Note

Between the invasion of Poland and the surrender in Tokyo Bay, more steel was sent to the bottom of the sea than in any conflict before or since. The purpose of this archive is not to celebrate any of it — but to remember the ships, the men, and the scale of what was lost.

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