Looking at this post again I was wondering how the impact of mines is incorporated into these figures, are they included as part of the 500 ships caused by other causes.VeenenbergR wrote:In WWII Germany sank some 4800 enemy ships by joint effort of all her forces.
U-Boats (losses 620) sank about 2800+ enemy transports and some 300+ warships.
Luftwaffe sank some 800 enemy transports and 400 warships of which the Condor alone sank about 250 enemy ships with few losses of their own. Greatest enemy warship sank was the modern battleship Roma in 1943 by Dorniers equiped with the Fritz-X rocket bomb.
By all other causes another 500 other enemy ships were sunk.
Submarines and Aircraft were the real killers, surface warships had a small part of all those losses.
As for surface warships (including hilfskreuzer) I make it about 187 merchantmen sunk, which I think is a significant total bearing in mind capture and use of some of these ships and their cargoes by the KM and German economy generally.